Melted ground

[router343]

I recently bought a 1995 seadoo gtx. I have had do some work to it but now i have a new issue. I replaced solonoid, new battery, and used oem starter. Went to the lake today everything was goin fine until about 10 minutes in. The ski died, took off the seat and the negative side of battert was melted off and i dont know why other than bad ground cable. I dont know what gauge or awg battery cables to buy. Can someone help me out?

 

[becxlt]

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Loose ground likely !

 

[router343]

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Do you know what size cables i need to get, all we have here in town are autoparts store and a Gander Mountain. Gander Mt, has some 8 awg cable i can buy but not sure if i need something else.

 

[gm280]

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Do you know what size cables i need to get, all we have here in town are autoparts store and a Gander Mountain. Gander Mt, has some 8 awg cable i can buy but not sure if i need something else.

Here is a quote for eight gauge wire; An #8 is rated at 40 amps but code only allows 80% capacity. 80% of 40 = 32 amps continuous. HOWEVER, that doesn't take into account the distance for the wire run either. So I personally would check to see how much current your starter is using/demanding and go a bigger gauge for a safety factor. Also have your battery load tested now since this happend. You could have also done some internal damage to it...

 

[router343]

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thanks for the info, i actually took the battery back to orielly's and they replaced it.

 

[router343]

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inew battery and new ground cable, now when i try to start it, all i get is one click, will not turn over or nothing

 

[slag]

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Can you rotate the motor by hand? Either the bendix is seized (probably not), or the starter has issues (more likely). Did you hook the ground up to the rear of the starter and then to the battery, or just a random place on the engine?

If you have to take the starter out, I don't envy you. It's doable with the exhaust on the seadoo, but not fun.

 

[router343]

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i removed the the plugs and was able to rotate the motor, jumped the solenoid and still just the one click, i will remove the starter, and hopefully the starter is just not disengaged and spinning with the teeth on the flywheel.