electrical problems 01 rn

[Couchesrule]

I am been chasing electrical problems for the past month. Basically, when I hit the start button the starter turns over really slow and then will start to smoke. So I let off and come back later and sometimes it will turn over fine and sometimes it wont. Lately, I have been hitting it and the solenoid with stick. The starter will keep turning over and smoking until I take off the negative cable to the battery which will in turn blow a hole in my terminal because it gets so hot. My theory is the solenoid melts together causing it to stick. Any ideas why its doing this? I have been through a battery and two solenoids. I also took the starter apart and everything looked fine, but it is a relatively new ebay starter. Any help or opinions? Yes I know buy a nicer starter haha.

 

[Big Kahuna]

Either a bad cable or its the cheap ebay starter

 

[OCD Solutions]

I am going to say you started out with either a bad cable or stuck brushes in the starter and have now burned the contacts in the solenoid as well.

 

[Couchesrule]

Thanks. Anyway of narrowing it down between the starter and the cable really don't want to pull the starter again. I have to pull the motor and take the bed plate off to get it out or take the exhaust off and buy a new gasket.

 

[TheCoz43]

You can run the cheap starter for 40 and all new cables for 50. Replace both. Prob your cables they go bad a lot. Wont take that long with a buddy and a 12 pack.

 

[Couchesrule]

Back to the problem again now its getting closer to spring. I replaced the starter with a oem used starter and another new battery and solenoid. The ski ran fine with no issues for 3 weeks cranking it at least once a day. I just went to crank it today and the starter just continues to spin the motor over and will not stop until unhooking the negative battery cable. I still have not replaced the cables. That is my next go to, but I don't quite understand how a short or break in the cables would make the starter continuously turn the motor over.

 

[98yota]

My blaster did the same thing when the solenoid died. I pushed the starter button and the starter would continue cranking after the engine was running, Not good!! I disconnected the negative cable and shut it down. After that, if I touched the negative cable to the negative post on the battery, the starter would begin to crank. I replaced the solenoid in the Ebox and this never happened again! Hope this helps!

 

[Couchesrule]

It does some but i have been through countless solenoids. Today I swapped the cables with no new results I even tried two different working solenoids. Usually with a new solenoid it will work once or twice and do the same thing again.

 

[Crab]

low battery voltage kills solinoids

 

[blaster800]

solenoid is still sticking in closed position OR its highly possible its working correctly , but you are still getting a SIGNAL to the solenoid from somewhere to keep it energized !!!!! did you try disconnecting the wires from the start switch while it was CRANKING , to see if that will make it stop ? ??

 

[Couchesrule]

solenoid is still sticking in closed position OR its highly possible its working correctly , but you are still getting a SIGNAL to the solenoid from somewhere to keep it energized !!!!! did you try disconnecting the wires from the start switch while it was CRANKING , to see if that will make it stop ? ??

I did that also today and it continued to turn over. I took the plugs out and turned it over a couple times by bypassing the solenoid. The battery seemed very low, so I put it on charge while connected to the ski. I continued to turn the motor over bypassing the solenoid. Then I put the plugs and the solenoid back in. Magically it started working again. I have turned it over 20 plus times without the solenoid "sticking". I hate electricity. my guess is its only so long before it does it again.