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Motor dragging just enough to notice when starting.
I am doing a load test today on the battery.
I have a voltage drop when cranking down to 9.5 Volts
Voltage is 13 volts at rest at the battery and at the solenoid.
Battery is 9 months old (could be older but that is when I bought it)
Solenoid...
I have been reading about heatsoak on Faststrike motors for a year now. Has anyone foud a cure or is every motor different? Mine is a 1998 175. Same story as I have read. It works fine first shot out of the ramp. I fish a place for an hour. I idle out to clear water and hammer down to get on...
I have a 94 40hp Force. The motor started to tilt all the way up on it's own. Sometimes in the garage sometimes trailering. To get it to go back down you had to hit the up switch. Then it went down too fast. Then it seemed to work okay.
Now it will tilt down but not trim down the rest of the...
My '94 Force 40HP has just started giving me problems. The motor starts up fine . It runs good for about five mins. then it dies and will not start again for a long time. Starts right up again and dies again and will not start for a long time again. In the drive-way with muffs it runs good for...
