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Random no start

Hunterb

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Hi all,
I have a 1997 GTX that I acquired earlier this year and did a bunch of work on to get it running. It has worked great all summer until the other day when I had a strange no start issue. It happened when my kids were out in our ski boat and it broke down (battery cable issue) so I zipped out on the Seadoo to tow them in. It started and ran perfectly. When I got to them I shut it off while hooking up the tow line and then when I went to restart it I got nothing. No click, no attempt to turn over, nothing. The gauges came on when I put the lanyard on the post but nothing else. So.....we flagged down a pontoon boat and got the double tow of shame home.
The next morning I went to see if I could figure out the Seadoo issue and it fired right up normally and has multiple times since. My problem is I don't really trust it now. My question is; what is the most likely culprit to cause a totally random no start? Dess post, stop/start button, solenoid, corrosion? In your experience is there often one thing that causes that more than another? I don't want to fire up the parts cannon if I can avoid it.
Thanks in advance if you have any suggestions.
 
Fess post could do it,,, easy to replace,,, but could be lanyard as well, it’s good to replace them in pairs, but you will have to get the lanyard programmed
 
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