Background:
1998 405 Aft Cabin

My generator has always been hard to start. It would take 20-30 seconds of starter operation to start the Generator. I never held the starter button for more than 10 seconds before I’d give a 3 second pause. Once started the generator worked as advertised.

Finally yesterday after 1.5 years of ownership I decided to fix it. Simple fix!

The choke needed adjusting.

Here’s a pic of the generator. I’ve an Ohm meter connected to the choke heater wire to check voltage.


Here’s the choke at cold temp. As you can see it’s not closed. I guess through the years of operation the spring gets weak and won’t close the choke completely?
And finally the voltage to the choke spring.