One more question. Two wires hanging loose

chris0061

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I noticed on my 81 mercruiser 260 that there are two wires not connected to anything. They come out of the white connector before the harness plug in. Located on the transom starboard side. One is Black looks like a fresh cut the other is blue looks like its been cut for a while. Any ideas?
 

Silvertip

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Re: One more question. Two wires hanging loose

Does everything else work? If so, they are for an accessory or feature your engine did not have/need.
 

chris0061

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Re: One more question. Two wires hanging loose

everything seems to work. I still got some sorting out to do under the dash. The trim gauge and the fuel gauge was'nt working and someone had took the purple hot wire off the trim gauge to hook up a depth finder so I spliced the depth finder and hot purple wire with a ring terminal and hooked it up to the trim gauge and the fuel gauge started working with the trim gauge. While I did that everything that was working on on the accessory switch all of a sudded worked with it off. So I have to figure some more things out. I did notice that the courtesy light on the outside of transom that used to work before the mechanic pulled the engine doesn't work any longer. I used to work while navigation lights were on.
 
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