1996 seadoo starting problems?

[wiredguy1]

every time i hook up the battery terminals, the jet ski turns over without hitting the start button. being an electrician, i have checked the cylinoid (sic), it is not stuck closed, nor is the starter switch on the handle bars. i checked them with a continuity tester. is the main brain fried? or is there some smaller electical problem i can check?

 

[fordbybirth]

unplug the wire on the solenoid going to the starter and hook the battery up, check the small wire on the solenoid coming from the starter switch if it has constant power then the switch itself is more than likely broken, or hung up, also get a wiring diagram for the starter setup, and check and see how it is run alot of fourwheelers and motorcycles, jetskis and things of that sort there is a wire running from the starter switch to the solenoid, kind of like the signal wire on a car amplifier, i have never seen the starter actually run through the main computer, but a cheaper fix if the switch is bad would be a water proof push button switch run from a keyed hot to the solenoid.

 

[lar]

did you get or could you get a wiring diagram that will show you what is happening when you hook up the battery terminals. On a car you have the main hot going to the starter and the little wire is from the switch. Do this, hook up a remote switch and see what happens. Sounds like some voltage is crossing over somewhere.

 

[CARL G H]

asuming the starter button is not bridging, the next place I'd check would be the auto kill release switch lastly the starter solenoid. your ecm doesn't affect this part. one note many seadoo's have wiring that may have bene exposed water and you may have a plug that corroded across the plug and is needing the problem.