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I believe I fixed my issue as I no longer noticed the wires heating up what I did was replaced the starter with new OEM starter and solenoid and also replaced 90 amp fuse. I cleaned replaced all terminals that were corroded or that didn't look great. Even though the starter was working it still...

Sounds correct to me thanks for the heads up

Thanks for all the information. I have a pretty good judgment of wire gauging I could be off by a little but I would say it's roughly 16 to 18 gauge. I also forgot to mention each side of the blade fuse has a different gauge wire which I found was kind of odd when I say gauge one would be 18 the...

If I were to purchase one of these what would I need to do to isolate the problem with one of them?

So I went down and I tested turning the ignition on all the way without starting the wires stayed cool it was until I started it up they started to warm up this time they didn't get so hot but they were warm I also noticed the same red with purple stripe wire goes to several locations I'm not...

The fuse does sometimes let go but the wires are always getting warm. Are you saying to put a lesser fuse in there instead of a 20 like a 10 or 15 I don't think that would stop it from heating up if anything the fuse would just pop quicker I could try that. When I get home today I'm going to...

Oh yes you are correct I totally forgot about that not sure what I was thinking and that's good to know I don't have to drain the system. Thanks for the reminder

Bank of 4 mini fuse I removed two of the 4 because I noticed one of the other fuses we're getting warm as well so I installed two new fuse holders for those two that are separate now I'm just wondering if the original factory the wires were crossed.

Here is a picture of the blade fuse holder that I installed a year ago. I will also attach a picture of the original OEM Bank of four fuse holder that's still in use you'll see that it's melted as well

I thought of something else that could potentially be my problem but I doubt the factory would have misspined the wires. So the original fuse block the two wires came out of that melted where from a bank of four fuses I'm wondering if the wires out of the bank of four we're not matched up...

That's a brand new blade fuse Marine grade holder that I installed and it's still melted the factory one was a mini blade fuse that came with a bank of four. So I don't believe it's the fuse holder the wires heat up as well got to be something else somewhere.

That's a good point they are definitely roughly around 18 gauge and when looking at the manuals it was showing 20 amp fuses. I still have not figured out the problem yet I went a whole season melting several fuses. I really want to get down and replace that 90 AMP fuse on the starter and clean...

Great to know thanks I'll give them a shout

My engine serial number in case someone happens to come across the exact wiring diagram for mine Engine s/n 0W657692 Thanks all