96 Speedster no crank- MPEM diagnosis?

[Whister]

This boat ran great when I left it last summer... Now I'm finally ready to start taking it out again and I get nothing when I press the start button. The batteries were drained dead so I replaced them, still nothing. On occasion I get one beep when pressing start.

I left the lanyard off and hit start five times, I get one chirp and one beep. I put the lanyard back on and get nothing. Any suggestions?

 

[anorth45503]

I think I might have the same problem. I am going to replace my starter solenoid tomorrow to see if that fixes it. I have a '96 challenger. The realy is located in the mpem box. just open it up and floow the red wires. 2 10mm bolt hold it on. looks like this http://www.parkeryamaha.com/seadoopwcsolenoidrelay278001802.aspx

 

[Whister]

If you have two engines, there would be two starter solenoids, right?

 

[anorth45503]

I quess if there is two start buttons

 

[anorth45503]

just replaced my solenoid and no luck. I am going to pull the starter next.
Good luck
Adam-

 

[Whister]

On mine I don't get any beeps when I put the lanyard on its post, so I don't think the solenoids are ever seeing a start signal.

 

[timmyboy76]

clean the metal strip inside the landyard and the post, with an eraser. Did you check the fuese and condition of battery?

 

[1996xp800]

Is there a reason for using an eraser?

 

[timmyboy76]

cleans the metal surface ....black marx..etc.:cheers:

 

[seadooNY575]

I had the exact same thing happen to my 96 sportster, as timmyboy hinted, it is probably a bad connection between the post and lanyard because my problem was solved when I bought a new lanyard and had it programmed to my MPEM.