2016 Vortex 203 VRX NO CRANK

[douglazb]

Battery is connected, fully charged;
Battery switch is ON position;
Throttle is centered / neutral position;
Lanyard is connected;

But NO CRANK.

All fuses are Good,

What else can I check?

 

[JetBoat195G]

I'm not sure whether your boat has these kind of relays, but these are known to fail on Scarabs, leading to no crank.

Thread 'Rotax owners keep this handy'

Apr 16, 2017

This is for all of you Rotax powered boats, and PWCs.

This weekend I finished some good TLC on my Scarab. I washed it, and was going to run the engine to check my fluids. I ran into this problem, and the solution was cheap, but not easy to find at all. I figure I would pass this along.

Let me give you a back story so you guys can read the symptoms.

Over the winter my boat got minimal usage. I would run the engine once a couple weeks to get some fluid though it. About 2 months ago, I started to notice that there was times where my boat would not fire or crank on the first try with the...

• ScarabMike
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