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MACK
Posted 2/27/2006 7:20 AM (#179822 - in reply to #179796)
Subject: RE: HELP! Key & Kill switch off, motor still running!!




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Yeah...bad starter solenoid. Had the same thing go wrong on a houseboat a few years back. It'd be the funniest thing....we'd all be sitting there and the motor would just fire up on its own! LOL! Kind of like a ghost fired it up.

It'd start and shut itself off periodically. Eventually it'd just sit there and crank and not turn itself over, but it'd keep cranking and eventually it'd kill the battery.

What had happened was the inside of the solenoid had so much corrosion going on internally that it was making the contacts on its own.

Once a new starter solenoid was installed...all was good again.

Definitely something you'll need to have fixed.

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