88 Force 125- Did My Starter die?

[Bry21317]

Re: 88 Force 125- Did My Starter die?

Ok, I put the new Starter on, still no go. I then decided to try the Starter Relay, which I had a spare from in the past in my tool box, still nothing. I then regrounded everything and triple checked all the wires, everything is a solid connection.

I even had my Dual batteries charged up, from my build in Marine Charger. Both batteries are less than 8 months old, and now it seems they are not holding charge. I have the batteries at Batteries Plus for testing, they were going to find out if they went bad or not. My guess is they did, as they both showed as being fully charged, but I unhooked one of them, and then my Tilt and Trim would barely move up, I had to manually push on the engine while It was going up to get it raised up before I removed that battery. So my guess is that I had 2 batteries die on me.

I will let you know.

Bryan

 

[eurolarva]

Re: 88 Force 125- Did My Starter die?

When hooking batteries in parallel you should always use the exact same type of battery and both should be new. If you hook a three year old battery in parallel with a new one it wont take long for the new one to turn to crap.

Try starting it with plugs out. This should give you low compression and motor should turn easy. If contacts are clean and tight and starter is new and solinoid works it has to be that battery. Only other option is motor is siezed up or you have a badly corroded wire.

 

[Bry21317]

Re: 88 Force 125- Did My Starter die?

Euro,
I will be rewiring around the batteries. I have been running with this configuration for about 5 years. One of the batteries was older, and different. This is the one that went bad. I thought they were both new, but one is about 7-8 months old, and the other one, that was bad was from 2000. I now have the identical batteries. I will be hooking them up, and cleaning up my wiring back there. This should help in the long run. I was planning on rewiring everything in the boat this winter anyways, so I will start by cleaning up the wires that went to the batteries. I will now be hooking up another fuse block in the back, so I can tie in the wires that need power directly to my Perko 2 batt switch instead of directly to each of the batteries. This way I can turn power off completely by the switch.

Later this year, when its cold I will be running new wires to the front of the boat from this new Fuse block and replacing my old aging fuse block in the front. I have a power draw somewhere in the front and I am not sure where it is, so I plan on finding it and fixing it all together.

I will let you know what happens when I get the new batteries in the boat and see if it will then fire up.

Thanks, for all the help.

Bryan

 

[Bry21317]

Re: 88 Force 125- Did My Starter die?

Well I put the new wiring in, redid it so that my swith kills power to everything and cleaned all the contacts. I then dropped the new batteries in, and now the starter turns like a champ.

So it was the batteries that were causing the problem, and possibly some gummed up connections.

I didn't try to actually start it as it was late when I got it all wired back up last night. I will try to fire it up tonight though, but the starter was working now, instead of doing the slow poke turning, so it should fire right up.

Thanks for all the help.

Bryan