Levitator 6.0 NA dies will cruising at 4,200 RPM

[Slidin Gator]

I spoke with Sallie Floyd with American Airboats. She stated she had a very similar issue with another customer; they replaced the crankshaft sensor and sent the customer on their way...did the same thing a few days later. They ultimately found that a wire that comes out of the area of the crankshaft sensor runs along the motor mounts inside a plastic sleeve, they put a pigtail and some new wiring and solved the problem - They think the wiring was chaffed inside the plastic sleeve. I'm the furthest thing from a mechanic, so please read this with that understanding LOL!

That is certainly a good possibility. I have a generator that kept randomly shutting down. At first I thought my camper AC was overloading it when starting the compressor but it kept doing it without a load. After tearing it apart twice I found a wire from the shutdown switch was chaffed and just randomly grounding out sending it into shutdown mode.

Intermittent electrical issues are the hardest to troubleshoot.

 

[Deano]

Intermittent electrical issues are the hardest to troubleshoot.

Anybody that doesn't readily acknowledge this must be very new to the game. As Robert Blake used to say, "You can take that to the bank".

Actually, it is somewhat ironic that this 'ground when you don't want it' scenario is the exact inverse of the most typical problem involved with most marine wiring; that being a bad ground (when you do need it).