- Location
- Cornelius, NC
Alright, '90 Superjet with 61x. I run the crap out of this ski and it's been running great everyday these past couple months. Got to the local ramp and all it would do is click.
This isn't the usual, "Help me, I can't search for anything, why is it clicking?!
I rigged an outboard solenoid when I was in a bind last year, turned out to be the start/stop switch that needed to be cleaned. It worked so I left it and kept my stock as a backup. Pulled e-box apart and saw that the el cheapo solenoid was half melted around the base of one of the posts. Pictured below.
I thought, sweet, I still have my stock, I'll be in the water in 15 minutes. I think I fried my stock one, tried jumping posts with an old file and damn near welded it to the solenoid.
Pulled out my little China freight tester and, as pictured, I touched the probe on the dummy end to battery positive and the other end that tells me polarity to each of the posts. I found one side of the solenoid posts to be grounded and the other hot. The one that's grounded shouldn't be anything! It's supposed to sit there and wait for the solenoid to give it power.
Traced it back to the starter and sure enough the positive post on the starter proves to be ground. I have a better meter but this one knows the difference between positive and negative on the battery terminals, so it has to be right.
I didn't take the starter off and apart yet, the insulation is intact on the outside from what I can tell.
I think I just talked myself to my answer while creating the topic, new starter or figure out what's shorted on mine. Maybe it'll help someone else not fry their solenoid.
This isn't the usual, "Help me, I can't search for anything, why is it clicking?!
I rigged an outboard solenoid when I was in a bind last year, turned out to be the start/stop switch that needed to be cleaned. It worked so I left it and kept my stock as a backup. Pulled e-box apart and saw that the el cheapo solenoid was half melted around the base of one of the posts. Pictured below.
I thought, sweet, I still have my stock, I'll be in the water in 15 minutes. I think I fried my stock one, tried jumping posts with an old file and damn near welded it to the solenoid.
Pulled out my little China freight tester and, as pictured, I touched the probe on the dummy end to battery positive and the other end that tells me polarity to each of the posts. I found one side of the solenoid posts to be grounded and the other hot. The one that's grounded shouldn't be anything! It's supposed to sit there and wait for the solenoid to give it power.
Traced it back to the starter and sure enough the positive post on the starter proves to be ground. I have a better meter but this one knows the difference between positive and negative on the battery terminals, so it has to be right.
I didn't take the starter off and apart yet, the insulation is intact on the outside from what I can tell.
I think I just talked myself to my answer while creating the topic, new starter or figure out what's shorted on mine. Maybe it'll help someone else not fry their solenoid.
