Heater Doesnt Start Unless I Punch It

[ranger098]

My Heatercraft Heater worked great last year, but this year when i hit the switch i get nothing. I found that either hand spinning the fan before turning it on, or hitting the heater with a screwdriver or something with the power on, will get it working. so there's a corroded something, somewhere, it seems. Anyone fix this?

I have two calls into Heatercraft where they need to reach the tech guy, who hasnt been available, and no call back...

[BrokeGuy]

If your smacking the motor, then it will run fine. Then the motor is bad. It has a bad spot in the armature.

2016 Moomba Craz
Gunmetal W/ flake
Atomic Orange Accent
Black Deck and Hull

[996scott]

You can take it apart and make sure there are no loose wires or connections anywhere. If it's ok then like Brokeguy said, probably the motor. I just replaced my motor last year, my breaker would keep tripping. It's a pretty easy job to replace the motor.

[ranger098]

You can take it apart and make sure there are no loose wires or connections anywhere. If it's ok then like Brokeguy said, probably the motor. I just replaced my motor last year, my breaker would keep tripping. It's a pretty easy job to replace the motor.

Awesome, thanks. Was the motor expensive? Ill maybe rip that heater out tonight and look into it....

[viking]

or carry a BFH this season LOL

[ranger098]

or carry a BFH this season LOL

HA your plan sounds pretty good actually.

[zabooda]

I had to replace the heater core in my 98 Moomba and the blower was a single speed motor and looked like the blower in the bilge compartment. The box was riveted together so I had to drill those out. Pretty simple design.

[yearround]

I mainly thought it was a PITA to crawl under the bow and remove the blower, the water supply lines were really short, so i added length to loop around and connect the heater easily, then screw back to the wall. I had not drained the heater adequately one year and froze the core. have not had any probs with the blower though.

[KG's Supra24]

HA your plan sounds pretty good actually.

Z

HA your plan sounds pretty good actually.

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[996scott]

Awesome, thanks. Was the motor expensive? Ill maybe rip that heater out tonight and look into it....

I think it was around $140 for the heavy duty one. Depends on which motor you buy. You can buy directly from Heater Craft or there are a lot of other suppliers. Good Luck.