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Flutterby

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The Gods were with me this weekend! When I arrived at the boat on Friday I found that it sitting out in the rain had made the canvas much cleaner and there were no leaks into the boat.

The wind was slight and the high tide had just turned to go out which worked in my favor to walk my boat from the end tie back to my slip and in without any assistance!

The on Saturday I was able to replace a lost slider for one canvas panel and that works fine now. Then I tackled my "no ignition" problem. First I removed and replaced the inline fuse at the key. It seemed fine and tested positive for continuity, but I changed it anyway. However, that didn't make the key work.

The I wiggled and jiggled the throttle and the neutral gear switch every way possible, but it still didn't start.

So I climbed down into the engine compartment and pushed the reset button on the engine. It didn't click, so it didn't need resetting. Then I wiggled and jiggled all those wires that go into that area. WaaLaa, it started!!!! Yea!!!

This morning I needed to drive the boat further up onto the air dock and it started first try, no problem!

However, I fear this problem may recur. If so, I'll get a skilled person to tackle the problem, but at least I should be able to get myself home...........
 
Condensation must have put a little corrosion on some of the electrical connections. I would start with the battery cables and move on to the engine plugs, or the wires you wiggled last.
 
The only wires I wiggled in the engine compartment were the group which comes out of the harness and goes into the relay box where the reset button resides. I agree it must have been caused by corrsion.
 
Flutter -- Did you disconnect the harness, clean the contacts and spray with Corrosion X or similar? Waeewn
 
Warren, no I did not. I'm not experienced at disconnecting the harness and reworking those wires and was concerned I would get myself into a mess I couldn't get out of. I prefer to have someone who is knowledgeable show me what to do first.
 
Glad you sharednthe fix for yourmproblem. When I read the original post I was hoping it was a simle fix. Warren
 
Glad to hear it wasn't something expensive. Hopefully a little PM work will prevent it from reaing it's ugle head again...

Way to go.
 
Hey Flutterby

You have a Rinker if I remember correctly and if it is so then I went through the same problem and it ended up being pin 5 on my harness on my Rinker.

Neville
 
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No I don't have a Rinker, but I purchased my boat new from Matt at Pacific Boat Center. Prior to being a distributor for Rinker, he handled Freedom boats which were built by his dad at the former Apollo factory in Washington. Freedom is no longer in production.

What was done to repair your pin 5?
 
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