New wiring

[Mconkle]

I need to run a new wire from my dash to my engine compartment. My boat is a Tracker, Tahoe 220 deck boat. It is a 2001 model with a Mercruiser Alpha One. What is the easiest way to accomplish this goal?

 

[Silvertip]

Re: New wiring

Follow the path of an existing wire. Use a straightened metal coat hanger to push/pull the wire through tight areas. What size wire and what's the wire for?

 

[tpenfield]

Re: New wiring

I need to run a new wire from my dash to my engine compartment. My boat is a Tracker, Tahoe 220 deck boat. It is a 2001 model with a Mercruiser Alpha One. What is the easiest way to accomplish this goal?

Just curious as to why you need to re-run wiring on a relatively new boat.

I also believe that you can buy (somewhere) replacement wiring harnesses for Mercruisrer that already have the engine compartment connector, so you just have to re-terminate things at the dash panel.

 

[alldodge]

Re: New wiring

I need to run a new wire from my dash to my engine compartment. My boat is a Tracker, Tahoe 220 deck boat. It is a 2001 model with a Mercruiser Alpha One. What is the easiest way to accomplish this goal?

:welcome: to iboats

Agree with Silvertip and will add if you have a longer run go to the hardware store and pick up an electrical fish tape
Klein Tools Depthfinder 50 ft. Steel Fish Tape-56001 at The Home Depot

 

[Mconkle]

Re: New wiring

Follow the path of an existing wire. Use a straightened metal coat hanger to push/pull the wire through tight areas. What size wire and what's the wire for?

I am installing a cruise control and need to run a control motor wire from Engine compartment to instrument panel. I like your plane. I am a pilot also. I drive a Cessna Columbia 400.

I don't even know where to start other than un hooking a current wire and tying two strings to it and pulling it out.

 

[Walt T]

Re: New wiring

I suggest building the harness first then installing it with the stock harness so it looks factory. Use split loom, have all the wires in it and install it. Tight spaces can take some thinking. Sometimes running it a different route is helpful.