I think you should pay yourself about $87.00 pr hour for the diagonostic service you preformed!
Otherwise , I hope I have that kind of luck this weekend. My outboard would sound like there was a big air bubble in the line. It would skip a complete beat and the pick back up but it would repeat itself and the skip would get shorter and shorter untill the moter finally died! I ended up with a boatUS/tow in! Can't wait to find out what it is because when I got back to the dock, I performed the same drill of checking the fitting connections and then ... The motor started! AT THE SLIP! It rand a good 10 real minutes. Then I took the gas line off the YAMAHA T9.9 and it ran at low idle for at least 5 minutes until it ran itself dry. So I'm expecting a perfect motor on Saturday! TomC Kiona#1914 West River, Md. On 8/12/10, Micheal Bowick <[email protected]> wrote: > It sound like you've got one faulty winding in the starter ( a dead > spot ). It could stay like that for years where you can get it to turn > by tapping it. The problem is you can't trust it. > > Good luck, Mike > > Bowick Electric > > On Aug 12, 2010, at 3:12 PM, The Emmerichs <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Yesterday evening, we were going out to Wednesday races. I pulled >> on the starter knob for my M-18 diesel and nothing. I had good >> voltage on the batteries, the starter switch was good but no >> response from the starter. So we went to plan B, sit at the dock >> and drink a few beers. >> >> >> >> This morning I went out with the intention of pulling the starter >> and taking it to an auto electric shop. I decided to try a high >> tech fix before removing the alternator and oil filter to get at the >> starter. I took a large wrench and tapped the starter a couple of >> times. By now you can guess what happened, the starter and solenoid >> worked just fine, the engine cranked normally and started. >> >> >> >> I went through this same drill about 5 or 6 years ago. I took the >> starter to a shop, they checked it out and said both the starter and >> solenoid were fine. I told them to put a new solenoid on as that >> seem to me to be the most likely culprit. I’m sure that would be th >> e same diagnostics if I took it back now. >> >> >> >> Any thoughts on this? I’m definitely not a starter mechanic. >> >> >> >> John Emmerich >> >> C27TR >> >> > -- Sent from my mobile device ------------------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/IC27A/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/IC27A/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: [email protected] [email protected] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
