FlightPlanDan
Don'tTrustAfartAfter50
- Location
- Crescent Beach, FL
My wifes ski needed motor mounts. Once the motor was out...it needed more. Nothing tragic...just some attention before the season.
Jetmaniac hooked me up with all that was needed...(fast too!) .
GP800 mounts and a new-to-me ebox aluminum back piece, as well as a new nut and keeper-washer for the primer....ack! pot metal!
Anyway.. Got it all together, cleaned up, ready to go for the summer. It fired, ran great. (I start 'em up every couple days..ride or not)
Today would have been the 3rd start-up since the motor went back in.
Green button did nothing. Nothing at all. Not even a click from the solenoid.
Now I'm thinking I f'd up something. But there's nothing between the battery and the solenoid but the cable!...O.k. bad cable....dammit. Gotta pull the e-box to check power at the solenoid to make sure....
Did all the regular stuff first...batery, start/stop switch....
Just as I was mouthing profanities and bobbing my head up and down over the engine compartment my friend/fishing/riding buddy walks past the house walking his dog. (x2frank). I told him what was going on.
He said,"yea, those cables are pretty old, but check that main fuse in the e-box".
The fuse was bad. 2 minutes of work vs. hours......
Funny though, the filament in the fuse was not burnt or parted. But the metal end cap was loose on the glass tube.
The point: An extra set of eyes and ears can save you a lot of work. This is why the X rocks....and why riding buddies rock!
Jetmaniac hooked me up with all that was needed...(fast too!) .
GP800 mounts and a new-to-me ebox aluminum back piece, as well as a new nut and keeper-washer for the primer....ack! pot metal!
Anyway.. Got it all together, cleaned up, ready to go for the summer. It fired, ran great. (I start 'em up every couple days..ride or not)
Today would have been the 3rd start-up since the motor went back in.
Green button did nothing. Nothing at all. Not even a click from the solenoid.
Now I'm thinking I f'd up something. But there's nothing between the battery and the solenoid but the cable!...O.k. bad cable....dammit. Gotta pull the e-box to check power at the solenoid to make sure....
Did all the regular stuff first...batery, start/stop switch....
Just as I was mouthing profanities and bobbing my head up and down over the engine compartment my friend/fishing/riding buddy walks past the house walking his dog. (x2frank). I told him what was going on.
He said,"yea, those cables are pretty old, but check that main fuse in the e-box".
The fuse was bad. 2 minutes of work vs. hours......
Funny though, the filament in the fuse was not burnt or parted. But the metal end cap was loose on the glass tube.
The point: An extra set of eyes and ears can save you a lot of work. This is why the X rocks....and why riding buddies rock!
