Stevie96xp
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Nice man that’s a problem
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97 XP originally cranked but no spark, now no crank, helpppp
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Thought I might’ve been on the right track. Replaced that section of wire hoping for spark. But original issue persists. I’ll go to connect the battery, I got two beeps on the lanyard, now back to no cranking. I got the solenoid to click. What’s odd is if I connect battery, check voltage on battery side of solenoid 12.5v. If I then go and hit the start button, starter side of solenoid gets no juice, and battery side of solenoid drops to almost no voltage. Unplug battery and replug in and I’ll get the 12.5 v on battery side of solenoid. Click start button, click, then basically jo voltage to the solenoid. I went ahead and cleaned all grounds and power as well as ground and power of the battery coming into the hull as well. Grounds are good. I’m at a loss
I didn’t re read through the entire thread but what I did read, I’ve seen twice where you mention 12.5 volts to the battery side of solenoid and like 5 volts or so on the other side, I would go ahead and change that solenoid if you haven’t already
Yeah so I’ll give the simple run down. Battery checks at 12.5v. When connecting battery and key, battery side of solenoid reads 12.5 v, when I click starter, starter side of solenoid dropped to 5 a few times. Now drops to 0. And clicks. If I disconnect the starter side of the solenoid and just test the post on the solenoid itself I get 12.5v when hitting the start button…
I’m leaning towards starter more and more.
Stevie96xp
Active Member
Yep sounds like a bad solenoid
I guess we’ll see tomorrow when I test the starter on the bench. You guys suspect a bad solenoid even tho when the starter is removed from the equation I get proper voltage on both sides of the selonoid?
Stevie96xp
Active Member
Ok well if you disconnect the starter and are getting power down to the starter then the solenoid is good bad starter or connection
I scrubbed the connection with a brush but that doesn’t rule out the actual cable being bad. I’ll test the starter tomorrow and see what we find out and then if starter is good I’ll swap the cable and see what happens
Well cable is def trash lol…
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Stevie96xp
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O yeah
Well I replaced that cable as well as fully disassembled cleaned and bench tested the starter. All in good condition and working. Found that my ground cable to the battery and positive from battery were just as corroded as the other from above. Replaced those. No change. Can’t even get a double chirp anymore. Occasionally a single chirp then beep. But otherwise no improvement even after replacing all these trashed cables.
Stevie96xp
Active Member
What happens when you press the start button without the key on. Also check to make sure you get power up to the 5 am fuse it sounds like you got intermittent power to the MPEM
