Had a group out in the water and was underway at 75% power for like 15-20min and the boat just shuts off. Found the ignition fuse (#2 on sea ray 180) blown. Think it was a 15amp? Took me a few minutes to figure out that’s what it was, I installed a sniper efi recently so I thought that was it initially. So we had been sitting there for a bit before I found the problem and put in a spare fuse.
Spare fuse installed and back underway but heading back this time because clearly something wrong. A few mins later it shuts off again. Put a spare fuse in and it immediately pops. At this point, we are still a good 20 minutes away from the boat ramp. I pull a fuse from something else and it pops and now I’m out of 15amp fuses. So I strip a spare pice of wire to make a jumper to see if it will at least start, but I have to hold it in place. It does start and I start heading to a different closer boat ramp but the wire starts getting hot, then too hot to hold. So clearly bigger issue. I don’t wanna start a fire so I stopped and I flagged down another boat and they told us to the ramp so I can at least get my friends off and figure out a way to get the boat home.
Fast forward a couple weeks. I am now tinkering with the boat. I checked over all the wires. I don’t see any chaffing on any of the wires that in the circuit I ohmed them looking for a short and found nothing. I threw fresh fuse in and it started right up.
I’m sort of at a loss. I’m thinking about sticking it on the muffs and letting it idle for a while and see if something happens.
The sniper has its own independent wire harness the signal wire is the only thing that is connected to the ignition and I tried wiring that directly to the battery when I was troubleshooting on the water so I know that that is not causing an issue.
Could the coil be going bad? Or something in the distributor? It’s the newer style ignition system with the solid-state distributor. Could it be getting hot as it runs and draw too much current? I was thinking that maybe the first time it stopped and it took me a little while to figure out what it was. Something had a chance to cool off a little bit whereas the second time it stopped. I knew it was a fuse, so immediately popped when I put it in because I had not had a chance to cool down, I don’t know I’m just drawing straws.
Has anyone run into something like this?
Spare fuse installed and back underway but heading back this time because clearly something wrong. A few mins later it shuts off again. Put a spare fuse in and it immediately pops. At this point, we are still a good 20 minutes away from the boat ramp. I pull a fuse from something else and it pops and now I’m out of 15amp fuses. So I strip a spare pice of wire to make a jumper to see if it will at least start, but I have to hold it in place. It does start and I start heading to a different closer boat ramp but the wire starts getting hot, then too hot to hold. So clearly bigger issue. I don’t wanna start a fire so I stopped and I flagged down another boat and they told us to the ramp so I can at least get my friends off and figure out a way to get the boat home.
Fast forward a couple weeks. I am now tinkering with the boat. I checked over all the wires. I don’t see any chaffing on any of the wires that in the circuit I ohmed them looking for a short and found nothing. I threw fresh fuse in and it started right up.
I’m sort of at a loss. I’m thinking about sticking it on the muffs and letting it idle for a while and see if something happens.
The sniper has its own independent wire harness the signal wire is the only thing that is connected to the ignition and I tried wiring that directly to the battery when I was troubleshooting on the water so I know that that is not causing an issue.
Could the coil be going bad? Or something in the distributor? It’s the newer style ignition system with the solid-state distributor. Could it be getting hot as it runs and draw too much current? I was thinking that maybe the first time it stopped and it took me a little while to figure out what it was. Something had a chance to cool off a little bit whereas the second time it stopped. I knew it was a fuse, so immediately popped when I put it in because I had not had a chance to cool down, I don’t know I’m just drawing straws.
Has anyone run into something like this?
