Second day out on the lake, in a tourney, my just recently purchased used cat — big motor would not start. Would crank just fine. Noticed when key was turned one click, smart gages would not light up, beep or anything. Second click to the right, motor would crank fine but no ignition?? Dropped trolling motor and finished tourney… After I got home, I took a look under dash and noticed that the wire harness that comes out of the key housing has been twisted very, very tightly, several times, because of maybe the lock nut on the key housing assembly being loose before I got the boat? I am guessing, from turning the key?? I also found the housing locknut only finger tight. Removed all the key housing hardware and pushing it through the dash and un-wound the harness to be more normal. I looked at all the environmental splices and all looked good. Back of potted ignition switch looked great. I then put the key in and clicked it once…. smart gages worked… I wiggled all the wires and splices and could not get the problem to come back. Anyone know what wire I should be looking at more closely?? The wire that would render the smart gages inoperative but still allow the big motor to crank.yellow with red stripe black purple black with yellow stripe yellow with black stripe red Thanks for any troubleshooting tips… Last edited by basscatsmeow on April 14th, 2008, 7:17 pm, edited 2 times in total.
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