Chinewalker
Fleet Admiral
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- Aug 19, 2001
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I recently did a tune-up on a 1993 Johnson/Tracker 25 and in the process wasn't getting any click from the primer when I pushed in the key. Grabbed a different control box and still no love. I then tried jumping the primer with a test lead and simply got some minor arcing at the positive terminal, telling me it was eating current but wasn't doing anything with it. I took the primer apart and discovered that the plastic core inside the plunger was completely melted! I had another primer onhand that had a broken cap around the red lever, so I swapped the innards into the melted primer casing and BINGO! Now we can cold start!