On my 87 5.7 ltr mercruiser the voltage gauge in the dash will intermittently peg at 16 volts. When this happens I can hear the alternator whine. When its not whining its reading 12.9 volts at the dash gauge but when its pegged and I take a voltage reading at the batteries its 17.9 volts. With...
Had the boat out today for its maiden voyage after my rebuild, overheated right away! so brought her back home and worked through the cooling system, decided to replace the thermostat and the lower water pump impeller. Now I have it all back together and its cooling fine, my question is, should...
Is the shift interrupter switch supposed to work even when shifting out of the water? I replaced my lower shift cable when the outdrive was off the boat, I have went through and thoroughly checked my cable dimensions and the allowable slack tolerance and still the switch doesnt work when...
Does each positive leg screw correspond to a neg buss screw or does it matter? Does it matter if a positve wire attaches to one side of the panel and the neg wire is on the opposite side or should they both be coming off the same side?
I have 2 batteries a house and a start both 24 series and I want an onboard charger that I can plug in to house current to keep my batteries fresh and topped off when not on the water.
Asking this for a friend that just bought this boat, its a 1999 21' profisher with a 125 Merc outboard. Nice boat but we found something odd today. It rained the other evening and he found standing water in his step down into his cuddy. We noticed there is a floor drain there but no water was...
Is it safe to say that all the grounds run together at some point or another? If I check the ignition/engine ground Ill get continuity on the house ground also? or atleast when the perko switch is in the BOTH position? and should they be seprate when the perko switch is in the 1 or 2 position.
Ok reinstalled my mercruiser 5.7 yesterday, I bought an alignment tool and followed all the instructions I could find in print and on Youtube. I have it aligned so the tool slips in with some (slight) resistance but the end looks like its got all the spline marks evenly around it in the grease...
OK! Im getting ready to reinstall my eneging tomorrow morning, everything is going smooth so far. I have 2 pieces of 1/8" stainless steel plate 4.5" x 7" that would work awesome in between the engine mounts and the boat, does anyone see or know of a reason I shouldnt put them under the engine...
OK! I'm getting ready to wire up my downriggers 4 Walker tournement series electrics. I've been reading up on here and everyone says use 10 ga wire and 30 amp breakers/fuses. I'm wondering if I should use inline fuse/ breaker holders and wire directly to the battery or run everything through a...
The P.O. had all the electronics running off the house battery and had every unit switched at the instument panel. Seperate switch for each unit except the Ship to shore radio. Is this the way to go or is there a better way?
I've been reading up on the process of installing my engine back into my boat after Ive rebuilt the transom and the motor mounts. Can I assume that using the front lifting eye on the engine will balance the engine side to side so I can adjust thefront motor mounts equally up and down? so I know...
Has anyone had to lay carpet in a cuddy step down area? and if you did how did you go about it? The deck is pretty straight forward, its the step down that has me confused. Any help/ideas would be greatly appreciated. Thanks...Lee
Ive been watching this Starcraft not sure what model but I think its an Islander and trying to figure out what year it might be. Im considering making him an offer and dont want to offer more than it might be worth...Thanks.
OK! got a quick question, Im getting ready to glass my stringers, they're all tabbed in to the hull with 6" and 8" tabbing of 1708. I'm going to do each side with 2 layers of 1708 and then cap them. My question is this, do I need to run the layers down onto the hull or can I just overlap an inch...
