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2014 Mercury Verado 150 wont start

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Jbanks2655

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I was on the water and started the boat about 6 times when I was ready to go home I just hear a clicking sound.

Brought it home had the battery charged reading 12.6v now. Bought a new starter and still hear the click click.

Removed the top cover from the flywheel and the starter is engaging but is only moving the fly wheel slowly which is the click click sound I hear.

I can move the flywheel by hand takes a bit of effort but it will move.

Removed the spark plugs I can hear the starter spinning, I had the flywheel cover back on so I dont know if it was moving also. Guess I should check that.

Cleaned all the battery terminals and the post.

Any ideas on where to look next?
 
Could be a problem with the battery cables or the starter solenoid. Use a set of jumper cables to go directly from the battery to the starter and make sure it works. Then move the hot cable to the battery side of the starter solenoid and see what you get there and then remove the ground cable to see if that is what is wrong, sort of a step by step bypass of the factory stuff untill you get to a point where the starter won't work and you will know where the problem is.Btw, try to connect the jumpers to the battery post just in case the fault is in the cable end.
 
Check your clean power supply. Check the fuse holder on the clean power supply. IF the clean power supply is faulty it will act like a dead battery or bad starter.

If you power the Yellow/red wire on the starter does the engine crank at normal speed?
 
Jbanks2655 said:
I was on the water and started the boat about 6 times when I was ready to go home I just hear a clicking sound.

Brought it home had the battery charged reading 12.6v now. Bought a new starter and still hear the click click.

Removed the top cover from the flywheel and the starter is engaging but is only moving the fly wheel slowly which is the click click sound I hear.

I can move the flywheel by hand takes a bit of effort but it will move.

Removed the spark plugs I can hear the starter spinning, I had the flywheel cover back on so I dont know if it was moving also. Guess I should check that.

Cleaned all the battery terminals and the post.

Any ideas on where to look next?
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Good news. I got it started. Bad news is I still don’t know what caused the problem in the first place. So I’ll say what I did and someone much smarter than me (could be a 6 year old) hopefully can tell me where the problem is or was.

I pulled my truck up to the boat because my cables weren’t long enough to get from the battery compartment to the engine. Put the positive to the yellow wire on the solenoid and went to ground on the black. The bending popped up did this about three times. Engine didn’t start however. Unhooked the cable, turned the key on the boat and it started. Went back to the cables and it started the boat again. What did I do to make it work. I’m confused.
 
You moved something that was getting a poor connection likely. Remove, clean and retighten all of the wires on the starter relay and see what you have but is possible the starter relay is getting iffy. Keep in the back of your mind that it is possible for the battery cable wire to have a bad connection in the cable end also so if it happens again wiggle only one wire at a time and test to see if the starter then works and take with you a device to short across the battery cables at the solenoid (screwdriver possibly) to eliminate the starter relay as a cause.
 
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