The Maintenance Shoppe

Make absolutely sure that your battery connections are tight with a pair of pliers. I can't tell you how many times we find the only hand tight, we will tighten them in front of the customer and their engine fires right up. you can also connect a volt meter at the battery and try to start to see the voltage drop, if it drops below 10 volts then its the battery. Next connect the voltmeter at the starter and note the difference in voltage if it is close to battery voltage then you would want to look at the starter. Inboards and sterndrives are notorious for starter failures.

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The Maintenance Shoppe
Full service boat, pwc, and trailer repair
4048 Creighton Rd Pensacola, FL.
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Tuna Man

Absolutely correct....Trash the wing nuts and use washers and hex nuts.

X-Shark

Then why aren't you recommending to a customer to get RID of the wingnut's [cause that's what your talking about,but didn't say] and replace them with nylon locknuts.