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while fishing on thursday, the trolling motor just stopped. every now and again i would try it and the motor would run, but if i turned it off, i would have to wait a while before it would come on again.
now tonight, it trips the breaker. i took the head off and found a chaffed ground wire, but...
Re: location of the speedo intake on Yamaha VF 250 LA SHO outboard.
thanks,...now "I" know as well lol. i was curious to why my speedometer doesn't work. so while i had the lower unit off, i used a hand operated vacuum pump that i had hooked up to the tubing inside the casing and extracted 2...
the water pressure guage on my console reads 15psi when i start getting under way and up to the point where the boat get's up to plain and cruises (at any RPM) momentarily, then it fall's to 11psi. the P stream seems to ok, no significant change in volume. i'm pretty certain that the pressure...
Can someone educate me on "where" this port is located on the engine? I have looked for it but was unsuccessful. I would like to check the engine operating hours.
Thanks in advance !!!
John
The speedometer does not work on my boat. i bought the boat in this conidtion. i see that there is a lot of polytubing that is coiled up in the sump area at the transum.
is it critical to have all this extra tubing? can the extra tubing be cut to reduce the length?
thx