1969 85hp Evinrude

[schuder]

I recently picked this motor up and know nothing about it. I can rotate the motor by hand using a tool to the nut on top of fly wheel. I tried hooking a good battery via jumper cables directly to the starter positive post and ground cable to grounding bolt. The starter gear raised but would not turn the motor over. I used a continuity meter and touched the red wire to the hot post on starter and black to the grounding bolt.
Guess what, the meter needle moved to the right. And I'm pretty sure that's not good. What is the real problem? Thanks

 

[boobie]

Is your battery in backwards and is it fully charged ??

 

[gm280]

Sounds like you need to charge your battery AND clean all the electrical terminals for a good clean shiny metal finish and then retighten them again... Let us know your progress...

 

[schuder]

The battery and connections are good.
I used a continuity meter and touched the red wire to the hot post on starter and black to the grounding bolt. Directly. No relay connected. There shouldn't be continuity between positive and ground, Right?

 

[F_R]

Having trouble following your description. Are you doing this test with the cables connected? Is "continuity meter" a misprint? You don't use a continuity meter on live circuits.

Whatever the case may be, stop right where you are. You are in serious danger of costing yourself a bundle of money. That motor absolutely MUST have EVERYTHING PROPERLY CONNECTED with GOOD wiring or you may blow the ignition amplifier, and/or alternator rectifier. Please excuse the shouting, but it is necessary in this case.

 

[schuder]

No the cables were not connected just the red wire of the tester connected to positive post and the black wire to the grounding bolt

 

[schuder]

Oh I forgot to say that the last owner aparently changed the starter relay. I only know this becues it is not mounted correctly "the mounting plate is not the correct size there is only 1 bolt holding it on. They also removed a lot of wires and switches from the boat. I will have to find a service manual just to see if what is wired is wired correctly

 

[henleyhale]

sounds to me like you were trying to see if you were getting continuity between your positive starter terminal and ground, and it wasnt continent so the needle moved showing resistance. that being said if you have juice to get the gear up and not enough power to turn over the engine I would remove the starter and take the 2 bolts apart that hold it together, when taking apart any electrical motor it is essential to mark the exact location to the housing at each end by scratching it across with somthing like a screw driver. once the starter is apart inspect the brush assembly, is it broken? are the brushes worn down to the wire? if so replace the brush assembly that matches your starter and viola put it on the boat and run off with it.
I have repaired a broken brush cup with superglue that was cracked badly on the water. so if the brushes are good and the plastic cup is broken super glue that baby, but bring a rope along to pull start it if it fails ya.

 

[schuder]

A rope won't help if the starter fails, it's a 69. 85 horse without a pulley wheel in top. Just a fly wheel.

 

[dazk14]

A rope won't help if the starter fails, it's a 69. 85 horse without a pulley wheel in top. Just a fly wheel.

The flywheel does have notches for use with a starter rope/wooden handle that actually came as standard equipment....but a 45 year old V4 with the battery ignition will be VERY difficult to rope start cold.

 

[schuder]

Sorry about that, I dident realize my starter motor problem was solved.

 

[schuder]

We'll another sorry. I now see it is just a signature response at the bottom of the last post I took as sarcasm.