1990 30hp evinrude tiller.<br /><br />Died on the water. No noise or reaction when pressing start button. Took a piece of wire (left in boat from running lights)and put one end to the wire straight from battery. Then touched the other end of wire to the + side of the starter and it fired right up. Took it home and this is what I got. <br /><br />Runs perfect.<br /><br />Tested things with Fluke elec analyzer.<br /><br />Starter button works <br /><br />Put new relay on (thought that was problem but still nothing).<br /><br />Starter itself works (when I jumped it ,it worked fine.)<br /><br />Stupid move on my part *last* time working on it(last year when you all diagnosed bad coil )was ,I left battery hooked up and something happened that now allows it to start in gear.But this never stopped it from starting.<br /><br />Checked the wires to the relay and found:<br />Top post with one large red wire and two small red wires,still hooked to post were +. <br /> <br />Going down to next post which is small and has a yellow/red strip is dead even when mashing start button. Red wire that runs with this wire is one of the ones going to the top post.<br /><br />Going down to next post yellow/red stripe wire is + only when mashing start button. Red wire running with this wire also goes to the top post.<br /><br />Bottom is large red wire going to the starter which is dead all the time.<br /><br />Hope this helps, thanks in advance!!!
