Boomyal
Supreme Mariner
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Not sure if this should have gone in the Electrical Forum but being as it near stock OMC I thought I would post it here. Over several summer play trips, when I shut off the motor, it fails to turn over on restart. First thought was dirty battery terminals so I removed them an wire brushed them while tied to a dock. It cranked right over after that so I thought I had found the culprit. This happened several other times on different trips and I would go back, twist the cable eyes and re-tighten on the clamp nuts. Sometimes I would have to go back and fiddle with them a couple of times before the motor would crank over.
When this would occur, I would turn the key to ignition and all the gauges would respond normally. Moving to start, I would never even get a solenoid click.
Fast forward to yesterday's trip. Out in the middle of the river I shut down for everyone to jump in. On restart it would not even click (routine). I once again checked the battery cables and all seemed well. What I discovered this time was that while the no crank condition existed my outdrive would raise and lower. As the tilt motor requires a fair amount of amps, this discovery ruled out that the battery connections were ever my problem. Besides that, I have experienced corroded cables many time in my life and you would always, at least get a solenoid click.
The only deviation from stock, in the wiring department is that years ago I installed a permanent magnet mini starter that has it's own solenoid. So the original OMC starter solenoid now just acts a a switch to trigger the built-in starter solenoid.
My goal is to figure out the points that this situation could occur in; something that I could trace down while on the water. I have never been able to duplicate this issue while on the trailer.
When this would occur, I would turn the key to ignition and all the gauges would respond normally. Moving to start, I would never even get a solenoid click.
Fast forward to yesterday's trip. Out in the middle of the river I shut down for everyone to jump in. On restart it would not even click (routine). I once again checked the battery cables and all seemed well. What I discovered this time was that while the no crank condition existed my outdrive would raise and lower. As the tilt motor requires a fair amount of amps, this discovery ruled out that the battery connections were ever my problem. Besides that, I have experienced corroded cables many time in my life and you would always, at least get a solenoid click.
The only deviation from stock, in the wiring department is that years ago I installed a permanent magnet mini starter that has it's own solenoid. So the original OMC starter solenoid now just acts a a switch to trigger the built-in starter solenoid.
My goal is to figure out the points that this situation could occur in; something that I could trace down while on the water. I have never been able to duplicate this issue while on the trailer.