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Thanks in advance for the help, just found this site.
Have a 96 175 johnson, my son saw some smoke under dash, the black ground wire had melted, and had done so all the way back to the engine. Only thing I wrong can find is the battery leads were very loose, it got so hot the terminals melted on top, both pos and neg. spent a weekend tracing the wire, and replaced it all the way back, and taped , repaired anything it melted or burned.
Now, it will not start. sometimes it will try to hit once, even backfired once., but most of time no. I pulled plugs and grounded them but could see no spark. Replaced the starter switch because it had been acting up and was sticky, but did not fix problem. Replaced plugs , replaced switch.
Where to from here??
appears it will fire sometime, but not enough to run.
it did crank one time, but quit after about 5 minutes.
Good mechanics here are rare, and expensive.
What is best guess, did the hot ground ruin the power pack?
Have a 96 175 johnson, my son saw some smoke under dash, the black ground wire had melted, and had done so all the way back to the engine. Only thing I wrong can find is the battery leads were very loose, it got so hot the terminals melted on top, both pos and neg. spent a weekend tracing the wire, and replaced it all the way back, and taped , repaired anything it melted or burned.
Now, it will not start. sometimes it will try to hit once, even backfired once., but most of time no. I pulled plugs and grounded them but could see no spark. Replaced the starter switch because it had been acting up and was sticky, but did not fix problem. Replaced plugs , replaced switch.
Where to from here??
appears it will fire sometime, but not enough to run.
it did crank one time, but quit after about 5 minutes.
Good mechanics here are rare, and expensive.
What is best guess, did the hot ground ruin the power pack?
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