Re: 1997 Force 120 - Wont overcome compression starting
I recently attended to my boats cables, and did a small write up on a local forum, easy enough to C&P it here, it may be of help:
Had a good long hard look at some of the supporting systems on my boat and one that stood out straight away to me was all the main battery and earth leads.
The job of these leads isn?t easy, low voltage, high amperage to turn over a big 2 stroke Lawn mower motor. In many cases, left at the back of the boat, only looked at when there is an issue. Often open to the elements and sometimes even covered with a coat of nice salty water.
Now I?m sure if we where to look at all our boats, I?m confident we would come across some leads that look like this:
This was the worse one I had, (was linking the main earth between the 2 batteries) but after a quick check with a multimeter, the resistance in this short piece was close on 0.5ohm.
This would result and quite a significant voltage drop .
So I bit the bullet, ripped out all the main power and earth leads and went and seen a good mate and fellow fisho who manages an Autoparts store. Left it all with him, and with not much change from $100 came back with it all brand new. He was quiet, so he even crimped all the new eyelets on for me:
But not content with leaving it at that and ending back to where I am in 6months time, I went a couple steps further.
A quick mask up of the terminals contact area, then dipped the ends of all my new cables into this stuff (also got from a local Autoparts store, Im sure there is an equivalent in USA):
Came out looking like this:
Upon un masking (left to dry over night):
And just to make sure, some quality shrink heat shrink over the top:
Now, I?m sure it could be done with other products and maybe even slightly different technique, but this way, I?m sure it will be 100% better than it was, and once combined with good batteries, terminals and clean good earths at the motor, you can set and forget this part of the system from keeping you stranded at the ramp on a cold morning , or even worse, out in the briney as the sun is setting on a Sunday arvo.
