Mercury 150 HP starter gear remaining engaged

[llyons]

Hi,

I noticed while testing a stator with stator leads swapped for testing, the motor would not start and the starter gear did not disengage. In the normal stator lead configuration the gear does disengage.

What might cause this? Is there some leakage/short that could bleed over to the starter solenoid line that would cause this?

I just recently replaced the starter solenoid switch a couple months ago.

If the starter gear remained engaged while the motor was running could that smoke some electrical components like the stator, trigger?

Thanks in advance.

 

[Chris1956]

The starter gear is normally "kicked" down when the engine fires. If it doesn't fire, it can stick. You should turn the flywheel a bit and make sure it can go down.

Rarely the gear will get stuck, usually due to corrosion.

 

[tommarvin]

Our starter gear had old dry grease on it and would hardly move. We cleaned it with wd-40 and it move freely now.
I would do the normal stator lead configuration so the gear disengages, Im not sure about swapping the stator leads for testing.
Are you sure the starter solenoid is wired correctly?
I don't know if you smoked any ignition parts or not but www CDI electronics dot com web site explains how to test ignition parts.