Electrical problem?

[honkytonker26]

I put in down at the Riverpark last night and I went to start my motor and it wouldn't hit a lick. I tried and tried. Almost running the battery down. Then all the sudden my depth finder went off and back on while I was turning the motor over. When that happened it fired right up. It started up every time the rest of the night. Any ideas? I am going to look at the wiring today.

 

[Guest]

Sounds like something is loose. You need to find it because electrical problems don't fix themselves. Sometimes they hide and show their ugly head at the worst times. An old saying that we electricians have is "loose wires cause fires"

 

[minner]

honkytonker26 - 4/17/2008 3:10 AM I put in down at the Riverpark last night and I went to start my motor and it wouldn't hit a lick. I tried and tried. Almost running the battery down. Then all the sudden my depth finder went off and back on while I was turning the motor over. When that happened it fired right up. It started up every time the rest of the night. Any ideas? I am going to look at the wiring today.

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I'll take a shot at it. My first guess would be that the DF shutting down and restarting was totally unrelated to the motor not starting. It probably cycled power because it experienced a voltage drop below 12V once your batteries started wearing down. The first thing I would check would be my kill switch. I know it sounds to simple but it wouldnt be the first time the KS has been the culprit of the problem. The not starting and then all of a sudden popping off and running fine the rest of the day sounds like classic kill switch-idas. Could be a bad connection or a failing switch. Check the kill switch "key" really close for irregularities. Other than that make sure you do as Cheez said and check all connections to the starter, battery, block etc. for loose connections and clean any corroded/loose connections and apply <u>dielectric</u> grease to them.</p></font>

 

[bottomfinder12]

cheez is rightemoTeacher emoTeacher

 

[digitalcb]

Kill Switch as already discussed and electric choke.

My motor will act just like yours if the electric choke doesn't work.