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Re: DANGEROUS unexpected start up
1. Isn't the motor fried from running w/out water? The discussion about fixing it is moot.
2. The key was on. Solves the primary riddle. Secondary is either the solonoid or ingition switch "jumped" a spark to start. Since it had been run recently, wouldn't take much of a bump to start.
3. doesn't the heat from #1 explain the melted line? Also it may have seized up to stop.
4. My 50 hp yam c. 2003 starts on tilt. I think my 1988 OMC 70hp does too. In fact I never heard of a tilt kill switch. A friend invented motor muffs on a stick so you can flush your motor, tilted, with a hose when you moor in salt water. A tilt kill would put him out of business before he even starts!
5. First, never leave your key on. If nothing else you are draining the battery and runnnig current through electrical parts that should be moving. In older cars that can melt your points. To remember this, turn your motor off at the key not the tiller.
6. When you repower, just get a red battery switch and turn it off when mooring; keep your bilge pump hooked up independently.
7. If not vandals, how about ghosts or vengeful fish?
8. That motor running out of the water would have been loud--how did you discover that it had been running?
1. Isn't the motor fried from running w/out water? The discussion about fixing it is moot.
2. The key was on. Solves the primary riddle. Secondary is either the solonoid or ingition switch "jumped" a spark to start. Since it had been run recently, wouldn't take much of a bump to start.
3. doesn't the heat from #1 explain the melted line? Also it may have seized up to stop.
4. My 50 hp yam c. 2003 starts on tilt. I think my 1988 OMC 70hp does too. In fact I never heard of a tilt kill switch. A friend invented motor muffs on a stick so you can flush your motor, tilted, with a hose when you moor in salt water. A tilt kill would put him out of business before he even starts!
5. First, never leave your key on. If nothing else you are draining the battery and runnnig current through electrical parts that should be moving. In older cars that can melt your points. To remember this, turn your motor off at the key not the tiller.
6. When you repower, just get a red battery switch and turn it off when mooring; keep your bilge pump hooked up independently.
7. If not vandals, how about ghosts or vengeful fish?
8. That motor running out of the water would have been loud--how did you discover that it had been running?