- Location
- near beautiful bobcaygeon
Launched my ‘96 SJ701 yesterday and rode it not too far from launch to my place and messed around there a while. I was off it once or twice and so had reinserted kill switch key and restarted a couple of times no problems. I put it on the lift thinking to adjust carb a bit as this was first time on water since I did a carb rebuild. Anyway, when I went to start it again there was nothing - behaved just like the kill switch key was not plugged in.
The ballast pump runs. Note that this is first time running in water since I swapped to a new toggle switch for the ballast pump, and after stopping engine and pulling kill key at the lift I did run the ballast pump to empty the engine compartment. I mention about the ballast pump because I had run the ballast pump and subsequently briefly started the engine as test before launching, but at the lift was the first time I ran the ballast pump since the ski got wet and the engine wouldn’t start after this.
Could the change to a new ballast pump toggle switch be related? When I changed this switch I did add a fuse on the positive wire between the battery +ve post and the switch.
I tested battery with a load tester and battery looks all good.
I have a multimeter.
I am fairly new to this.
Would someone please advise a sequence of troubleshooting tests to try to debug?
Is there a fuse I should check?
Is there a way to bypass / jump the SS harness to isolate the problem as being there?
Similarly, I read somewhere else about bypassing “the relay” to see if it will turn over, but I did not understand how to do this? Is this something I should try?
Your assistance will be most appreciated!
The ballast pump runs. Note that this is first time running in water since I swapped to a new toggle switch for the ballast pump, and after stopping engine and pulling kill key at the lift I did run the ballast pump to empty the engine compartment. I mention about the ballast pump because I had run the ballast pump and subsequently briefly started the engine as test before launching, but at the lift was the first time I ran the ballast pump since the ski got wet and the engine wouldn’t start after this.
Could the change to a new ballast pump toggle switch be related? When I changed this switch I did add a fuse on the positive wire between the battery +ve post and the switch.
I tested battery with a load tester and battery looks all good.
I have a multimeter.
I am fairly new to this.
Would someone please advise a sequence of troubleshooting tests to try to debug?
Is there a fuse I should check?
Is there a way to bypass / jump the SS harness to isolate the problem as being there?
Similarly, I read somewhere else about bypassing “the relay” to see if it will turn over, but I did not understand how to do this? Is this something I should try?
Your assistance will be most appreciated!