Shmelton
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So I went to the lake Friday, backed the boat in, and it wouldn’t start. I got the boat over to the dock, and figured out I had no spark. I took her home, and tried diagnosing the problem.
1st I figured since neither cylinder had no spark to disconnect the kill switch, and see if that helped, it still wouldn’t crank. I did some inter web trolling, to try to get a direction I wanted to head. Everything I read suggests power pack or stator.
So yesterday I checked the kill switch, by breaking the yellow and black wire, still no spark. I checked spark by putting a test light in the spark plug socket, nothing on either. Put spark plug to the power head nothing on either.
I put the plugs back in connected spark plug wires, and while I was deep in thought on what the problem could be, my 4 yr old, who is playing in the boat insists he can fix it. Well he whines and whines until he can help like 4 yr olds do. I play into it and ask him how to fix it, and he says”let me turn the key” so I let him, and I’ll be damned if it didn’t start!
Well I started it several times through out the day. All seemed good. Well this morning I decided to go fishing, and decided I’d check it to see if it would start before I headed out, and again nothing?
Any ideas on where to begin?
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1st I figured since neither cylinder had no spark to disconnect the kill switch, and see if that helped, it still wouldn’t crank. I did some inter web trolling, to try to get a direction I wanted to head. Everything I read suggests power pack or stator.
So yesterday I checked the kill switch, by breaking the yellow and black wire, still no spark. I checked spark by putting a test light in the spark plug socket, nothing on either. Put spark plug to the power head nothing on either.
I put the plugs back in connected spark plug wires, and while I was deep in thought on what the problem could be, my 4 yr old, who is playing in the boat insists he can fix it. Well he whines and whines until he can help like 4 yr olds do. I play into it and ask him how to fix it, and he says”let me turn the key” so I let him, and I’ll be damned if it didn’t start!
Well I started it several times through out the day. All seemed good. Well this morning I decided to go fishing, and decided I’d check it to see if it would start before I headed out, and again nothing?
Any ideas on where to begin?
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