Kansas rhody
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Tried starting my 50 after a long winters nap, started turning over fine but the battery was wearing down so I put the charger on it in the jumpstart position and then nothing. Totally charged up the battery and had it load tested, good 600+ amps, next changed both the negative cable to the starter and the positive ground cable, 12 volt system. Still nothing, replaced the push button switch on the starter, no joy. The weird thing is if I hook some jumper cables to the battery, put the negative on the starter bolt and attach the positive to the frame to ground I can get the starter to spin up but not enough juice to engage with the flywheel, 12 foot long 10 gauge cables. I am now stumped as what to check next. It is my understanding that the starter grounds to the frame via the bolts that attach it to the frame, could this be the problem