oregonducker
Petty Officer 2nd Class
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- Feb 10, 2004
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2002 Nissan model NS40D2 ser. #50777<br />Yesterday a friend and I were on the river when something odd happened. The boat was beached with the motor off and had been for several minutes. The key was still in the run position, my friend always stops the motor with the kill button instead of turning the key off, old habit from motors with no key. It was also in the down position(prop in the water) when we noticed a really bright light just under the power head. Realized it was a small fire and splashed water on it and then disconnected the battery. There was a strong smell of burned plastic or rubber. Couldn't see anything burned where we saw the light so we took the lid off but couldn't see or feel anything hot or burned in there either. When we left we started it with the pull cord leaving the battery disconnected. It ran like it always does. Once out of the water we reconneced the battery just long enough to get the motor raised and could see the burned wire in the picture. Nothing bad happened while we had the battery reconnected for those few seconds. I'm assuming that it's a grounding cable since it is just bolted to two parts of the motor. There are two more of these wires lower down on the motor. The one in the middle is broken and the lowest one shows blackened and melted insulation but not as bad as the one pictured. Any idea what caused this? Should I have it checked out before I reconnect a battery or just replace/fix these wires and see what happens? <br />