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Start Motor and Only Hear Tick-Tick-Tick...
After leaving the outboard motor sitting for one year, I try to start
it today, and all I hear is tick,tick,tick... (and this is not the sound of pistons moving around). What has gone wrong? It is a 1995 Mercury 115hp 2-stroke outboard motor. Last winter, I winterized it by running it on treated fuel for five minutes, spraying fogging oil into the sprark plug holes (then working the pistons), and then leaving a full tank of treated fuel in the fuel tank. The fuel is still good because I have used all of them in my car for the last month without any problem. Therefore, I know the fuel is not the problem. I have followed the instruction in the boatowner manual to start the motor (put the motor upright, put the lower unit in a bucket of water, turn on the battery switch, check the kill switch, hand squeeze the fuel pump ball to hard, hold down the throttle button, turn the throttle-lever up all the way and then move it back to 1/4 throttle, turn the power switch and hold it down to start), and I have tried this for a couple times in two days. All I heard was tick,tick,tick... Does this have something to do with leaving the motor unused for one full year? Does this have something to do with the fact that I didn't spray fogging oil into the carburetor in last winter? At that time, I didn't know that the carburetor air inlets are hidden behind the air-silencer; therefore, I didn't know where to spray. Does this have something to do with the possibility that the batteries may not be good enough to work the starter? When I checked the voltage of the battery right before trying to start the motor, the voltage looked OK to me (13.24 volt). I stress-tested the batteries last winter and I found them to be OK (admittedly I am not very good in doing this). I left them in the boat outdoor through out the winter; but I re-charged the batteries periodically and checked their voltage periodically during the winter. What can cause this problem? Thanks in advance for any info or suggestion. Jay Chan |
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Start Motor and Only Hear Tick-Tick-Tick...
Jay,
With OB in gear turn over using prop. Charge batteries and try to crank. Sounds like batteries to me or perhaps more likely a high resistance connection somewhere in the starting circuit. Butch wrote in message oups.com... After leaving the outboard motor sitting for one year, I try to start it today, and all I hear is tick,tick,tick... (and this is not the sound of pistons moving around). What has gone wrong? It is a 1995 Mercury 115hp 2-stroke outboard motor. Last winter, I winterized it by running it on treated fuel for five minutes, spraying fogging oil into the sprark plug holes (then working the pistons), and then leaving a full tank of treated fuel in the fuel tank. The fuel is still good because I have used all of them in my car for the last month without any problem. Therefore, I know the fuel is not the problem. I have followed the instruction in the boatowner manual to start the motor (put the motor upright, put the lower unit in a bucket of water, turn on the battery switch, check the kill switch, hand squeeze the fuel pump ball to hard, hold down the throttle button, turn the throttle-lever up all the way and then move it back to 1/4 throttle, turn the power switch and hold it down to start), and I have tried this for a couple times in two days. All I heard was tick,tick,tick... Does this have something to do with leaving the motor unused for one full year? Does this have something to do with the fact that I didn't spray fogging oil into the carburetor in last winter? At that time, I didn't know that the carburetor air inlets are hidden behind the air-silencer; therefore, I didn't know where to spray. Does this have something to do with the possibility that the batteries may not be good enough to work the starter? When I checked the voltage of the battery right before trying to start the motor, the voltage looked OK to me (13.24 volt). I stress-tested the batteries last winter and I found them to be OK (admittedly I am not very good in doing this). I left them in the boat outdoor through out the winter; but I re-charged the batteries periodically and checked their voltage periodically during the winter. What can cause this problem? Thanks in advance for any info or suggestion. Jay Chan |
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I try to start it today, and all I hear is tick,tick,tick... When my boat had the tick, tick, tick, it turned out to be corroded contacts in the starter solenoid. Mine's an I/O, but your outboard probably has some sort of equivalent part in its starting system. (The solenoid is a electromagnetically operated switch that closes some big contacts to apply power to the starter motor when you close the little contacts in your starting switch.) |
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Start Motor and Only Hear Tick-Tick-Tick...
Thanks for the info. Actually, this is a good news to me. Dealing
with the batteries is far more easier than dealing with the motor itself (the hardest part is to remove the batteries from the console). OK, I will clean the contact in the batteries and give it a try, and this will be my project for this coming week. Thanks again for the encouraging info. Jay Chan wrote: Jay, that ti-ti-tick, is low voltage, and the solonoig coil cant stay engaged to crank the motor. start cleaning battery connections and look for corrosion, and have your battery charged, or replace it. wrote: After leaving the outboard motor sitting for one year, I try to start it today, and all I hear is tick,tick,tick... (and this is not the sound of pistons moving around). What has gone wrong? It is a 1995 Mercury 115hp 2-stroke outboard motor. Last winter, I winterized it by running it on treated fuel for five minutes, spraying fogging oil into the sprark plug holes (then working the pistons), and then leaving a full tank of treated fuel in the fuel tank. The fuel is still good because I have used all of them in my car for the last month without any problem. Therefore, I know the fuel is not the problem. I have followed the instruction in the boatowner manual to start the motor (put the motor upright, put the lower unit in a bucket of water, turn on the battery switch, check the kill switch, hand squeeze the fuel pump ball to hard, hold down the throttle button, turn the throttle-lever up all the way and then move it back to 1/4 throttle, turn the power switch and hold it down to start), and I have tried this for a couple times in two days. All I heard was tick,tick,tick... Does this have something to do with leaving the motor unused for one full year? Does this have something to do with the fact that I didn't spray fogging oil into the carburetor in last winter? At that time, I didn't know that the carburetor air inlets are hidden behind the air-silencer; therefore, I didn't know where to spray. Does this have something to do with the possibility that the batteries may not be good enough to work the starter? When I checked the voltage of the battery right before trying to start the motor, the voltage looked OK to me (13.24 volt). I stress-tested the batteries last winter and I found them to be OK (admittedly I am not very good in doing this). I left them in the boat outdoor through out the winter; but I re-charged the batteries periodically and checked their voltage periodically during the winter. What can cause this problem? Thanks in advance for any info or suggestion. Jay Chan |
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Start Motor and Only Hear Tick-Tick-Tick...
I hope this is just the contact of the batteries. Sound like I will
need to get into the habbit of removing the batteries from the boat for winterizing and clean the contact really good. What's the significant of "OB in gear turn over using prop"? Is that trying to determine if any one of the pistons is stuck or not? Jay Chan Butch Davis wrote: Jay, With OB in gear turn over using prop. Charge batteries and try to crank. Sounds like batteries to me or perhaps more likely a high resistance connection somewhere in the starting circuit. Butch wrote in message oups.com... After leaving the outboard motor sitting for one year, I try to start it today, and all I hear is tick,tick,tick... (and this is not the sound of pistons moving around). What has gone wrong? It is a 1995 Mercury 115hp 2-stroke outboard motor. Last winter, I winterized it by running it on treated fuel for five minutes, spraying fogging oil into the sprark plug holes (then working the pistons), and then leaving a full tank of treated fuel in the fuel tank. The fuel is still good because I have used all of them in my car for the last month without any problem. Therefore, I know the fuel is not the problem. I have followed the instruction in the boatowner manual to start the motor (put the motor upright, put the lower unit in a bucket of water, turn on the battery switch, check the kill switch, hand squeeze the fuel pump ball to hard, hold down the throttle button, turn the throttle-lever up all the way and then move it back to 1/4 throttle, turn the power switch and hold it down to start), and I have tried this for a couple times in two days. All I heard was tick,tick,tick... Does this have something to do with leaving the motor unused for one full year? Does this have something to do with the fact that I didn't spray fogging oil into the carburetor in last winter? At that time, I didn't know that the carburetor air inlets are hidden behind the air-silencer; therefore, I didn't know where to spray. Does this have something to do with the possibility that the batteries may not be good enough to work the starter? When I checked the voltage of the battery right before trying to start the motor, the voltage looked OK to me (13.24 volt). I stress-tested the batteries last winter and I found them to be OK (admittedly I am not very good in doing this). I left them in the boat outdoor through out the winter; but I re-charged the batteries periodically and checked their voltage periodically during the winter. What can cause this problem? Thanks in advance for any info or suggestion. Jay Chan |
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Start Motor and Only Hear Tick-Tick-Tick...
Ernest Scribbler wrote:
wrote I try to start it today, and all I hear is tick,tick,tick... When my boat had the tick, tick, tick, it turned out to be corroded contacts in the starter solenoid. Mine's an I/O, but your outboard probably has some sort of equivalent part in its starting system. (The solenoid is a electromagnetically operated switch that closes some big contacts to apply power to the starter motor when you close the little contacts in your starting switch.) I just hope that the problem is limited to the contact of the batteries and is not the contact of the starter solenoid. If cleaning the contact of the batteries doesn't fix the problem, I will need to try your tip. I am baby-sitting my kids; therefore, I cannot work on my boat now. I cannot wait to pull the batteries out, clean them really good, and try starting the motor again. Jay Chan |
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Start Motor and Only Hear Tick-Tick-Tick...
Actually, the boatowner manual only instructs us to attach an ear-muff
attachment to the lower unit. Somehow, that doesn't work in my motor (and the temperature of the motor went up); therefore, I need to put the lower unit into a bucket of water. I probably should check the impeller. Jay Chan Jim Brinson wrote: Jay, as others have suggested, the "ticking" is caused by low voltage/amperage to the starting circuit. A question however - does your boatowners manual really direct you to "put the lower unit in a bucket of water"? A flushing attachment for your garden hose would be far simpler. Good luck and good boating, Jim wrote: After leaving the outboard motor sitting for one year, I try to start it today, and all I hear is tick,tick,tick... (and this is not the sound of pistons moving around). What has gone wrong? snip I have followed the instruction in the boatowner manual to start the motor (put the motor upright, put the lower unit in a bucket of water, turn on the battery switch, check the kill switch, hand squeeze the fuel pump ball to hard, hold down the throttle button, turn the throttle-lever up all the way and then move it back to 1/4 throttle, turn the power switch and hold it down to start), and I have tried this for a couple times in two days. All I heard was tick,tick,tick... |
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