jkoenig1980
Cadet
- Joined
- Jul 19, 2011
- Messages
- 13
My brother got deployed again and left me his bot to look after for 3 years. I grew up around boats my entire life but im a dummy under the hood.
The boat is running what i think is hot. The gauge says 180ish then when i stop and kill the motor the gauge goes over 210. I replaced the t-stat, then i been reading about the sender. I disconnected the sender and the gauge read 0 then grounded it and it maxed out. So I thought the gauge was fine then i used a volt ohm meter on the sender and it was around 500 cold (one on ground, one on terminal). Pulled it out and put a lighter to it and the ohms dropped. So then stumped i bought a IR temp gun and took it out today. Wen we ran the boat and the needle hit 180ish i took off the motor cover and started taking readings. The top of the t-stat housing was 97 deg. The bottom where the sender is was 163, the big hose coming out of that was 162, but the engine block itself was 185. Does this all sound normal?
History on boat
2000 Sea Ray Bowrider
Been sitting since 2009 while he was in South Korea
Prior to that he had let his friend use it while he was in Germany and they failed to winterize it/ cracked block. New motor was installed to the sum of $5000 in late 2008. Been sitting since it was repaired until 3 days ago.
The boat is running what i think is hot. The gauge says 180ish then when i stop and kill the motor the gauge goes over 210. I replaced the t-stat, then i been reading about the sender. I disconnected the sender and the gauge read 0 then grounded it and it maxed out. So I thought the gauge was fine then i used a volt ohm meter on the sender and it was around 500 cold (one on ground, one on terminal). Pulled it out and put a lighter to it and the ohms dropped. So then stumped i bought a IR temp gun and took it out today. Wen we ran the boat and the needle hit 180ish i took off the motor cover and started taking readings. The top of the t-stat housing was 97 deg. The bottom where the sender is was 163, the big hose coming out of that was 162, but the engine block itself was 185. Does this all sound normal?
History on boat
2000 Sea Ray Bowrider
Been sitting since 2009 while he was in South Korea
Prior to that he had let his friend use it while he was in Germany and they failed to winterize it/ cracked block. New motor was installed to the sum of $5000 in late 2008. Been sitting since it was repaired until 3 days ago.
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