Yamaha 9.9HP kicker 2017MY will not start - technical help required!

[Englishman]

Anyone know an outboard mechanic who would be available to look at Yamaha kicker in the coming week?? I can go to them or if they are mobile so much the better.

Early morning or late evening works for me and I will pay triple time for anyone who can look at this in the next few days!! I do not want to be on the beach for the next 2 or 3 weeks waiting for shop space.

Please PM me with any information. Thanks very much.

 

[noluck]

Anyone know an outboard mechanic who would be available to look at Yamaha kicker in the coming week?? I can go to them or if they are mobile so much the better.

Early morning or late evening works for me and I will pay triple time for anyone who can look at this in the next few days!! I do not want to be on the beach for the next 2 or 3 weeks waiting for shop space.

Please PM me with any information. Thanks very much.

maybe share your location

 

[ab1752]

How about a description of the issue, does it just crank over? Electric or pull start? If electric pull a plug, crank it over with the plug n the wire and confirm spark.

My money is on fuel issue and those fuel pumps can die. Mine did last year easy swap.

 

[Englishman]

maybe share your location

I am in Sooke

How about a description of the issue, does it just crank over? Electric or pull start? If electric pull a plug, crank it over with the plug n the wire and confirm spark.

My money is on fuel issue and those fuel pumps can die. Mine did last year easy swap.

Thanks for your questions.

It is a pull start model. It does not crank, cough or react in any way to repeated pulls. The resistance to the pull seems a little "weak" to me but that might be my imagination. Last time out it would not idle very well and kept dying. But back then it did start fine with a coupla' pulls. Now it seems "dead-in-the-water".
It had a 300 hour service back in the spring including a full clean of the carburetor and this is only the 6th time out since. If anything it has been more "touchy" since the service than before!!

 

[Dorman Point]

Sounds like it could be spark. I would suggest first do any easy test for spark, you can do this yourself. Assuming you have two plugs, pull the plugs and leave them in their wire boots. Get a length of stainless wire and wire them together, then ground against an unpainted section of the block (the edge of the threaded plug hole works). Pull and look for spark on the plugs. They should both spark when you pull. If one does and one doesn’t, you have a bad spark plug. If they both don’t, it could be the Ignition coil, but it’s easiest to test for a bad plug first. That’s what I would do.

 

[ab1752]

You can just have a buddy look at the plug while you heave on the cord to check and see if there's spark across the diode.

Im in the fuel camp, based on my recent experience. Mine is a 2016 and I ordered a fuel pump off Amazon it was here next day.

Pro tip dont install it after a multi hour happy hour event in a crowded marina on a super hot day when you're too stupid to see the Amazon pump doesn't include the o ring unless you're a fan of dumpster diving when you find out you need that goddamn o ring or you lose all your crankcase oil and become a known polluter.

I still cant believe I found said O ring and im proud of my run on sentence.

 

[willydw]

Anyone know an outboard mechanic who would be available to look at Yamaha kicker in the coming week?? I can go to them or if they are mobile so much the better.

Early morning or late evening works for me and I will pay triple time for anyone who can look at this in the next few days!! I do not want to be on the beach for the next 2 or 3 weeks waiting for shop space.

Please PM me with any information. Thanks very much.

People on here are great. No one wants to lose time on a short season. Not always about the money.

 

[scott craven]

Marc Shubrook 250-744-9720
He will likely be busy, but he makes house calls!

 

[Englishman]

Marc Shubrook 250-744-9720
He will likely be busy, but he makes house calls!

Thx Scott,

Left him a voice mail. I hope he has time to call me back.

 

[zurk]

the small engines are all garbage. ive owned 3 and none of them worked properly. try a suzuki 9.9efi. it has no carb and all these small engines have carb issues.

 

[Englishman]

Good news guys,

I woke up this morning with "kill switch" buzzing through my head so I fiddled with that earlier. Amazingly that appears to be the problem!!

The little plastic clip attached to the dead man's cord is worn or shrunk my a millimetre or two and was not holding the kill switch quite open. Pushing a very slim washer or piece of plastic between the clip and the switch and the engine fires up fine.

A technician I was able to contact over the phone today confirmed this was indeed possible and we discussed solutions/mods. So I will work on that today and hopefully the rest of my/our season has been saved!!