Starting problems with the 200hp Yamaha

[shaneburris74]

Ok..call off the dogs. After posting I continued to read up on the problem. I took the battery cables and ran one from the battery ground post to the ground post on the starter...cranked right up...I gotta bad ground somewhere. I'm sure most of you smart guys were gonna tell me that. Looking back at my indications it makes sense. Now I gotta go find it.

[awthacker]

Shane, what boat did you end up getting? I saw your posts awhile back inquiring about the various engines on the boats you were scouting.

[spareparts]

Replace both battery cables, the Yamaha cables are made out of fine wire, they work real good for a while, but over the years of use, the wire breaks internally. You may find a place in it that was compromised and allowed water to enter the cables, they turn green and corrode up pretty quick. I see this all the time on older Yamaha engines. Run some new #4 cable(#2 if its a long run) with good cable ends and you'll be ahead of the game

[shaneburris74]

It was a bad ground running from the #1 battery. It was running to a terminal board that sends power out to bilge pumps and some other various stuff. The connection had gotten corroded at the terminal. While searching for it I just removed cables of the negative posts. As soon as I removed that cable all was well. Cleaned it up and its good to go.

I got a 94 21' Proline Cuddy.

Thanks for the help guys.