Lanyard kill on old style control box

[tnelsmn]

Working on getting the changes needed inside my control box before it gets mounted.

I have the neutral safety figured out and done. The twisted yellow wires will run to a hidden toggle switch I can flip to allow starts in gear, but also switch back and allow the safety to function as normal.

What I need help with is where to place the lanyard switch wires into this box. I've done some digging and seem to only be finding info on newer boxes. I don't have the black/yellow wire that would go through a switch to ground. From what I can see it looks like the orange wire at the key switch would be ignition on that goes back to the engine and hooks to the top side of the switch boxes. But that wire isn't hot with the key on. I'm at a bit of a loss.

Any help would be great!

P.S. I know this style switch and set up won't kill a fuel pump, I'm running the pulse pump for the time being with the stock engine. I'll cross that bridge when I go EFI.

[tnelsmn]

Update, after lots of digging through many wiring diagrams it seems on some engines the orange wire goes to ground through a mercury switch. So grounding the circuit must kill ignition. I tapped into the orange wire in the control box and will send it through a lanyard kill to ground. My engine won't be assembled and running agin for months. I will update agin when I know this is exactly right for any future users.

[25two.stroke]

What you did seems right to me. You should not have hot in the kill circuit ever. That circuit (orange wire in your case, black/yellow in more modern) is open when running and then grounded out to kill. How you wired your switch between the orange in the box and ground in the box is correct.