Mathew Todd Rosenbaum
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- Oct 9, 2005
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I have a 115 horse yamaha outboard. I beleive it is a 1996 motor because this is what I see stamped on the back of the power head. when trying to start the motor, it will just turn over but will not fire. This happened to me out in the water. I started my boat took it out to warm it up a little and then returned to shore to pick up my passengers. the boat idled for maybe 5 min. and then died. I tried to start it again and I got nothing. I ran the main battery dead after about 20 min. of trying to start the motor. I switched batteries and proceeded to try starting it again. I would have given up at this point but one of my passengers thought it was ok to push off and it was a Highly windy day so we drifted out into the lake. SO, I kept trying to start the motor and finally got it to turn over and run. After getting it started it ran fine for that day. We loaded up and went home after catching a huge 1/16 pound bluegill for all day of fishing. I charged the batteries and took the boat out the following weekend and the boat would not start. This time I was unable to get it started. For 2 days now I have been trying to run down the problem and have come up with nothing. I changed out the plugs. I pulled the plugs out one at a time to see if there was any spark and I did not see any. I tried everything I know .