Dead cart

[JTEL]

OK, here is the deal. My son in law wanted to change all my wiring from 4 gage to 2 gage.he said he wired one line at a time, Well when I came home from work we turned on the switch and there was a pop and now nothing works. No click or life in the cart. My question is dose anyone have the wiring dirgram to a 92 marathon? and where do I start with a dead cart?

 

[dougmcp]

Resistor cart or controller?

 

[JTEL]

Sorry, it is a controller

 

[HotRodCarts]

Here's a EZGO Marathon wiring diagram.
EZGO Marathon Golf Cart Wiring Diagram Controller

Where to start all depends on what you heard pop. Make sure a battery didn't explode. If the batteries test good then go over ALL the cable wiring to find what your son in law wired wrong.

 

[JTEL]

I have checked all wiring to my know how. It poped from the left side of the controler. But if the controler was bad would it still not click?

 

[JTEL]

OK, After work today I have checked every connection I can find and I have voltage to all. Push to go and no go or click. I am at a lost. Can anyone can point me in a direction to go? Thanks for the diagram. I looked it over and all is wired right.

 

[HotRodCarts]

If the cart ran ok before the cable upgrade I'd triple check the wiring. If the pop came from the controller it's probably bad also.

 

[JTEL]

I have checked all the wiring at least 5 times. All looks good. I can run a jumper to the hot side of the small terminal to the hot side of the battery and then the soliniod will click. With out running the jump wire I have no sounds or movement.

 

[JTEL]

Sorry after readind my reply I may have left out the part that after running the jumper wire I hear a click, but the cart still does not move.
thanks for any help, Jim

 

[skindaddy]

reed switch???

 

[JTEL]

OK, I got a complete manual on the cart. After all the test on everything it got down to the motor and just my luck It is shorted. Sooooo mow looking for a motor. I have to have it rebuilt or buy a new one. If buying a new one should I upgrade to a bigger one? What I have now is a Textron 2 HP 2800 RPM

 

[HotRodCarts]

The cheapest way would be buy a used stock motor or send your motor to EMP and have it rebuilt. With the EMP motor you can get buy without needing to change other parts.

 

[JTEL]

I found a local guy that had the same motor as I had and sold it to me for 80.00. Put it in and all fine.
Thanks

 

[HotRodCarts]

That was a good deal for the motor. Glad to hear you got it fixed and thanks for the follow up...