2000 yamaha 115 4 stroke

Mihailoff

Recruit
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Apr 30, 2017
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Help......when underway not always but a lot of times when I engage the trim switch my motor wants to stall. The other day it stalled and couldn't restart it. Trim switch would not work either at the throttle or the engine. I played with the battery wires and it restarted and the trim worked fine after that but I quickly reloaded the boat onto the trailer. It has me spooked a little. Any advice please
 

charleso

Petty Officer 2nd Class
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Nov 13, 2006
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Sounds to me like an electrical short somewhere. It is either putting a high load on the battery and pulling down the voltage or is shorted to the ignition cirquit and killing it. Double check the load capacity on the battery first, may simply be a weak/poorly charged condition and it's dropping out under the load.
 

99yam40

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Sep 7, 2008
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sounds like a bad battery cable, Pos or neg
or bad connection clean all connections even on the battery switch if you have one
 
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