Minnkota maxxum 70 will not spin without kicksart. Stop start several times then nothing and you havebto kick start it again. By Kickstart i mean spin prop with finger and it will start spinning. 

I have a maxxum and although I’ve never experienced this issue, it might be worth taking the prop off and making sure there isn’t a bunch of debris clogged underneath. Old fishing line can do a number on it when it wraps around in there.

Agreed, take prop off and inspect everything in there.

 

I do this several times throughout the season because weeds and fishing line gets trapped in there.

I did take it apart. Nothing in there. I think it a bad spot on the amerture. If blade is in a certain spot it will not restart with spinning by hand about a quarter turn 2st.

I can bet the armature has crud between the fields. I can also suspect that the motor may have gotten hot, melting or warping the plastic brush housing, causing the brushes to stick or hang up. The brushes could be worn also. Water entering the motor is often the root to all of these possible problems. I would open it up, but first, do you have good 24 volt power?

Sounds more like a stuck or dirty brush.

On 11/29/2020 at 11:48 PM, Way2slow said:

Sounds more like a stuck or dirty brush.

You know about electric motors too?? Sometimes I wish I lived next door to you.......... just kidding I would drive you crazy with all my boat problems 

With a degree in electronics and over 50 years of chasing electrons, plus a few years in industrial electrical, I managed to pick up a little knowledge about motors.  

There's a secret to knowledge, you don't let you neighbors know, other that a select few.   As I tell most, I do most anything and fix most anything but only on one type of item, MY OWN!

I am a very private person, as I tell people, I have a hard enough time taking care of my business, dang sure don't have time to get concerned with others. 

I've lived in this small town over 20 years and you can count on one hand the ones I know well enough to even say I know them, and my neighbor to the left of my is the only one I consider a friend.  

 

Oh!, I will say, if this was the fan motor on your AC or other AC motor, I would say you need a new start capacitor, but never seen a DC motor with a start capacitor,

As noted pull the prop off and. Inspect for line wrapped around the the prop shaft. Line cuts the pro seal allowing water into the armature and brushes. 

Tom 

Had to replace armature.  Now it runs backwards.  Lol