Nextelbuddy
Petty Officer 2nd Class
- Joined
- May 4, 2020
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Performing a mechanical to electric fuel pump on my mercruiser 5.7 1996 Sea Ray 210.
Using a Carter Marine 5 to 7 PSI fuel pump, a relay kit I got from summit racing that has a oil pressure safety switch, fuse kit, relay and wiring etc.. comes with all the wiring and connectors and some instructions of the wiring diagram everything seems pretty simple.
Looks like there is an extra pole on the starter I can take advantage of for the starter signal to the "S' pole of the oil pressure safety switch.
The part I get hung up on is the ignition switch source that goes to the "I" pole of the oil pressure safety switch.
Is the expectation that I run the wire for ignition all the way to the front of the boat to the actual ignition switch?
I've been researching all night and I see tons and tons of threads to talk about installing a fuel pump relay kid with an oil pressure safety switch wired to the starter etc etc. Tons of wiring diagrams of how people do it but nothing about the ignition switch.
So maybe I'm thinking about it too hard but I wasn't sure if I'm actually supposed to just run the wire directly to the front of the boat get under the dash pull out the ignition switch and find the wire to tap into there? Or is there another source on the engine that gets ignition source signal that I can take advantage of?
Using a Carter Marine 5 to 7 PSI fuel pump, a relay kit I got from summit racing that has a oil pressure safety switch, fuse kit, relay and wiring etc.. comes with all the wiring and connectors and some instructions of the wiring diagram everything seems pretty simple.
Looks like there is an extra pole on the starter I can take advantage of for the starter signal to the "S' pole of the oil pressure safety switch.
The part I get hung up on is the ignition switch source that goes to the "I" pole of the oil pressure safety switch.
Is the expectation that I run the wire for ignition all the way to the front of the boat to the actual ignition switch?
I've been researching all night and I see tons and tons of threads to talk about installing a fuel pump relay kid with an oil pressure safety switch wired to the starter etc etc. Tons of wiring diagrams of how people do it but nothing about the ignition switch.
So maybe I'm thinking about it too hard but I wasn't sure if I'm actually supposed to just run the wire directly to the front of the boat get under the dash pull out the ignition switch and find the wire to tap into there? Or is there another source on the engine that gets ignition source signal that I can take advantage of?