SX/SXi/SXi Pro Help need ski won't start

[Gavin]

Hi,

We've just put my ski back together after 2-3 years and it wont start. Put a new battery on it and it wont start not even a clicking noise like normal. We test the battery wire to ebox and its live but from the ebox to the starter is coming up with nothing. Would i be right in thinking the start relay is broke?

Thanks in advance,
Gav

 

[Jack Munch]

Hi,

We've just put my ski back together after 2-3 years and it wont start. Put a new battery on it and it wont start not even a clicking noise like normal. We test the battery wire to ebox and its live but from the ebox to the starter is coming up with nothing. Would i be right in thinking the start relay is broke?

Thanks in advance,
Gav

Something really simple to check is your actual switch. It has a lockout switch on it. You may have flipped the switch and didn't even know it.

 

[Vumad]

Personally, i jump the relay with a screw driver, if it cranks you know the problem is the solinoid, switch or somewhere in between. Its the incorrect and dangerous way to do it, so i feel obligated to say not to do it. Proper way is to ohm everything.

Test the solinoid by hooking it up to a 12 volt battery so it clicks, then ohm the battery terminals. You cant just test for a click alone, you have to make sure current flows to the starter.

Test the switch by ohming at the plug.

Make sure the fuse is good.

My x2 had a bad ground from the stator causing my issue, which made it prety hard to figure out. The stator plug inside the ebox was bad, and the problem was intermitent, and intermittent electrical problems are always a pain in the ass.

 

[Gavin]

thanks for your suggestions, someone else actually told me to do the same with the screw driver which I did and it cranked so I've bought a new starter relay and will fit it tonight and set again. Thanks for your help guys.

 

[Vumad]

thanks for your suggestions, someone else actually told me to do the same with the screw driver which I did and it cranked so I've bought a new starter relay and will fit it tonight and set again. Thanks for your help guys.

Dont rush out buying new parts. Throwing parts at a boat can be very expensive. Its about $5 for an ohm meter. Kts extremely easy to test a relay and a switch.my experience is that plugs fail farmore often than the parts.

 

[Gavin]

guess what it wasn't the starter relay, fitted and still didn't fire. i guess ill test the start/switch after work. Wish i read it sooner i could have saved some money. Ahwell live and learn!

 

[Gavin]

we got the manual out and tested the switch today, there was no reading from the plug like there should have been so we went to test the individual wires. When we were tracing the wires up from the plug, turns out the previous owner for some reason had a connected 3 quarters up the start switch wire and it was corroded so we stripped it and cleaned it put a fresh connector on and it fired!