Zool you need to get the CM out there!
Wood, sounds like you need a fuel pump to me....or maybe a fuel filter is stopped up? Even Miss Morgan has had her moments, trust me!
So I ended up having to go into work for a meeting today, sucks being the boss! Between that and running around looking for some terminals, I burned up a good part of the day. I did have a bit of time on Fuggly, but not near as much as I had hoped. So here are few update shots.
On the ignition switch you have an ignition power terminal. It is hot when the switch is "on" and provides power to the coil. In this case it also powers the instruments, and acts as a signal wire for the fuel pump relay and also the future radio. In the case of the fuel pump its just a signal wire letting them know its time to "turn on" their main power comes from another circuit that has constant power. The power off the ignition isn't fused so I added a second wire off of the switch to power a 4 circuit fuse block. The instruments, fuel pump relay and future radio signal wire will all be individually fused. I thought about putting the fuse block on the relay, but decided the current draw isn't much and I was over thinking it......not that I ever over think anything.....The new fuse block is at the top of the picture, next to the buss.
Speaking of making things complicated, I added a ground buss and another 4 circuit fuse block in the back. I wasn't planning on the electric fuel pump when I started out or I think I would have done things differently. The main power circuit for the fuel pump is a fairly large load, so I didn't want to run it all the way up to the front fuse block and then all the way to the back to the stern. I could have just hooked it up to the battery directly with an inline fuse. I hate those, seems like you can't ever find them when you need to. (could have done the radio and fuel pump circuit up front with inline fuses also) So to keep things neat and easy to find I added the fuse block and ground buss. I also left room on the mounting board for the main circuit breaker that will protect this fuse block as well as the main fuse block up front.
This is under the rear sundeck, starboard side. Today I was sort of kicking myself for not making it longer and extending more toward the transom. I think it will be growing to provide a mounting area for the Battery Minder, maybe a future batter switch if I add a second battery and a place to screw down camps for wire management.
Attaching things is always such a challenge in a boat, I spend half of my time gluing mounting blocks for clamps and wiring devices! And speaking of, I added some plywood on the bottom side of the starboard sundeck, for a place to screw support for all of the wires, cables and a place to coil up the extra length of the factory wiring harness for the engine. I didn't do that on Miss Morgan and it is a bit of a mess back there. This one has about 5 times as many wires and cables, so hopefully this will give me a place to tuck them somewhat neatly out of the way.
I finished up the day by gluing up some wood blocks for clamp points for the conduit and a strain relief block next to the battery. I want to secure the cables powering the fuse block to it in order too keep things from getting yanked loose by accident.
turned over nicely. I also bumped the tilt trim and it whirled nicely. So the plan tomorrow is to try bleeding the tilt trim. If I can get that running correctly, I think I should be on the downhill slide!
