Have experienced the 12V low coming on my 97 GTX. I have been reading several posts about troubleshooting this issue and here is where I am at.
Checked charging system and it appears to be around 14.
Checked 15 amp fuse near battery, 15 and 5 amp fuse in front of ski-all okay.
Using a 12 volt test light connected between the neg. cable and neg terminal. With lanyard off I get a brief light that comes on and then dies. If I wait 5 seconds or so the same thing happens. Doesn't this tell me there is a very small draw?
Start pulling connections to find what might be causing the draw. I found a few places where the test light won't come on.
1. 6 pin rectangular plug towards the front,top, center of the circular attachement on the front of the engine where I would guess a flywheel would be based on the location of the starter. Don't know what the name of this might be?
2. At the front of the ski in front of an electrical box there were 3 connectors. If I unplugged the one with 2 wires (one red with dark stripe and one black with red stripe) the light wouldn't come on. I traced these 2 wires going up to the gauge cluster. There were 5 more connectors coming out of the guage cluster underneath the cover. If I unplugged the 2 or 3 on the left the light wouldn't come on either.
3. Also think the light wouldn't come on when pulling I think the connector or 15 amp fuse in the box by the battery that I assume houses a starter solenoid? Sorry can't remember as I was checking several things.
Curious which way I should head as far as more diagnosing and what the 6 pin connector on the front does. If I unplugged it with everything hooked up including the lanyard then the guage cluster would go dead.
Great site by the way with tons of info.
I also experienced surging when trying to apply full throttle this weekend and it wouldn't rev past 5500. Mine still has all the grey fuel lines so I bought 25 feet of fuel line to today and plan on replacing all the lines and cleaning the carb filters.
Last question. There appears to be a white inline filter on the oil line coming out of the oil tank-is it a filter and should it be replaced.
Thanks for the help.
Bryan
Checked charging system and it appears to be around 14.
Checked 15 amp fuse near battery, 15 and 5 amp fuse in front of ski-all okay.
Using a 12 volt test light connected between the neg. cable and neg terminal. With lanyard off I get a brief light that comes on and then dies. If I wait 5 seconds or so the same thing happens. Doesn't this tell me there is a very small draw?
Start pulling connections to find what might be causing the draw. I found a few places where the test light won't come on.
1. 6 pin rectangular plug towards the front,top, center of the circular attachement on the front of the engine where I would guess a flywheel would be based on the location of the starter. Don't know what the name of this might be?
2. At the front of the ski in front of an electrical box there were 3 connectors. If I unplugged the one with 2 wires (one red with dark stripe and one black with red stripe) the light wouldn't come on. I traced these 2 wires going up to the gauge cluster. There were 5 more connectors coming out of the guage cluster underneath the cover. If I unplugged the 2 or 3 on the left the light wouldn't come on either.
3. Also think the light wouldn't come on when pulling I think the connector or 15 amp fuse in the box by the battery that I assume houses a starter solenoid? Sorry can't remember as I was checking several things.
Curious which way I should head as far as more diagnosing and what the 6 pin connector on the front does. If I unplugged it with everything hooked up including the lanyard then the guage cluster would go dead.
Great site by the way with tons of info.
I also experienced surging when trying to apply full throttle this weekend and it wouldn't rev past 5500. Mine still has all the grey fuel lines so I bought 25 feet of fuel line to today and plan on replacing all the lines and cleaning the carb filters.
Last question. There appears to be a white inline filter on the oil line coming out of the oil tank-is it a filter and should it be replaced.
Thanks for the help.
Bryan