After a perfectly good night

[maldoro]

Went fishing one night and had no problems. The next morning I tried to flushed my 1995 Evinrude 90 CV4 and she no start. Starter would not enagage in flywheel but does turn. Other thing I noticed: Trim switch will not work on engine, only from the throttle and my trim gauge is pinged to the top and making a low beeping noise. I have two brand new batteries and this all happened after I washed the boat. Help please!<br /><br />Desperatly in need of a boat ride!

 

[JB]

Re: After a perfectly good night

Hi, Robert.<br /><br />Look for a bad grounding of your battery cable on the engine block.<br /><br />Good luck.

 

[DJ]

Re: After a perfectly good night

JB is dead on. Take the ground on the block APART and clean it up.

 

[sloopy]

Re: After a perfectly good night

you could also have a bad battery!, remove it and try jump starting it don't jump start with the battery in the boat, the battery will take the nergy (best way I can describe) if it is bad

 

[maldoro]

Re: After a perfectly good night

Thanks all, JB was right on target. It was bad ground cable from the motor to the battery. The trim issues was due to corrosion in the trim relay box and a stuck trim switch.<br /><br />I continue to have issues with the low beeping noise I describe. I narrowed it down to the warning horn. This noise is a machine gun type, extremely fast beeping when I turn the key on. The engine is not even on. I checked the polarity of my trim gauge and verified all connections were clean and tight. I do hear the short blast when you turn the key . I will be replacing the ignition switch this weekend because it has lots of corrosion(maybe the cause). <br /><br />Anyone seen this before?