12-29-2007, 01:36 AM
up here in the northern states we have special batteries designed spicificaly for cold weather.
do your self a favor, start your motor with your water caps on the water pump, after you get it started and running pull the positive cable loose from the battery and see if the motor dies. do it only for a second or two, you will know right away if the motor is running off the battery insted of generating it own current.
If it dose you have a problem with your generator or voltage regulator... Do it for your own self asurance, a motor that is drawing a charge insted of generating a charge will kill new batteries.. and will eventualy burn out the starter motor and the electronic brain...
My dads 65 murk did that, and when the motor finaly took the forever nap it was in the middle of the detroit river in the shipping lane. Me and my little brother was fishing from shore and we saw a boat trying to paddle with a net to get out of the way of an on comming freighter. we couldnt tell that it was our dads boat with little sister in the boat...
when the freighter whent by you could see the little water craft lifting up in the wake of the ocean bound ship, it lifted the little boat up a good 20 feet. thought for sure the little boat was a gonner..
like I said we didnt know it was dad untill about 6 hours later when we see them getting twoed back to the harbor. 4 hours late...
any way, they had to pull the flywheel to replace the electronic brain then track down what burned out the brain, turned out to be the generator...
turned out dad knew the motor wasnt charging the battery, and that was why he had a spare battery in the boat.. He didnt think it was that big of a deal because it took 4-5 hours to drain the battery, that was untill the deal went bad...
after that he takes real good care of his boat motors and like you said dont skimp on the things that could be the differance between going back to shore or meeting Davey Jones in person.... and I dont mean one of the monkeys...
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do your self a favor, start your motor with your water caps on the water pump, after you get it started and running pull the positive cable loose from the battery and see if the motor dies. do it only for a second or two, you will know right away if the motor is running off the battery insted of generating it own current.
If it dose you have a problem with your generator or voltage regulator... Do it for your own self asurance, a motor that is drawing a charge insted of generating a charge will kill new batteries.. and will eventualy burn out the starter motor and the electronic brain...
My dads 65 murk did that, and when the motor finaly took the forever nap it was in the middle of the detroit river in the shipping lane. Me and my little brother was fishing from shore and we saw a boat trying to paddle with a net to get out of the way of an on comming freighter. we couldnt tell that it was our dads boat with little sister in the boat...
when the freighter whent by you could see the little water craft lifting up in the wake of the ocean bound ship, it lifted the little boat up a good 20 feet. thought for sure the little boat was a gonner..
like I said we didnt know it was dad untill about 6 hours later when we see them getting twoed back to the harbor. 4 hours late...
any way, they had to pull the flywheel to replace the electronic brain then track down what burned out the brain, turned out to be the generator...
turned out dad knew the motor wasnt charging the battery, and that was why he had a spare battery in the boat.. He didnt think it was that big of a deal because it took 4-5 hours to drain the battery, that was untill the deal went bad...
after that he takes real good care of his boat motors and like you said dont skimp on the things that could be the differance between going back to shore or meeting Davey Jones in person.... and I dont mean one of the monkeys...
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