knuckle47
Advanced Contributor
"Got down to the boat bright a
"Got down to the boat bright and early and started looking into the dead engine, squirelly tachometer and shorted buzzers problem. After about 20 minutes the realization hit that this was going to be no simple solution as everything I looked at seemed to check out. The tach had a very loose wire
We started again to see why we were not getting spark so measured the voltage at the 2 part - 4 pin plug on the coil and with the key switch..it was working...
IGNITION MODULE! There is no other place after the coil to go and sure enough...I remember something Line 6 Rick told me when I was still wet behind the ears a few years ago. " Well, you've got two of everything with two engines so try swapping some of the same parts" Swapped the Ignition Module and she started right up.
By Noon, we were done and on the way home
I irony lies in the fact that 3 other things went wrong at the SAME exact time. Since we had been tugging at the dash wiring for 1/2 a day, then it just died and the buzzers went off, PLUS the wiring is a nightmare to start with.. THAT was the direction I had started in. Those are lottery odds but I lose there too!
Quite pleased that things are back to normal and this re-wire will wait a few more weeks until haul out. Back to fishing this weekend"
"Got down to the boat bright and early and started looking into the dead engine, squirelly tachometer and shorted buzzers problem. After about 20 minutes the realization hit that this was going to be no simple solution as everything I looked at seemed to check out. The tach had a very loose wire
We started again to see why we were not getting spark so measured the voltage at the 2 part - 4 pin plug on the coil and with the key switch..it was working...
IGNITION MODULE! There is no other place after the coil to go and sure enough...I remember something Line 6 Rick told me when I was still wet behind the ears a few years ago. " Well, you've got two of everything with two engines so try swapping some of the same parts" Swapped the Ignition Module and she started right up.
By Noon, we were done and on the way home
I irony lies in the fact that 3 other things went wrong at the SAME exact time. Since we had been tugging at the dash wiring for 1/2 a day, then it just died and the buzzers went off, PLUS the wiring is a nightmare to start with.. THAT was the direction I had started in. Those are lottery odds but I lose there too!
Quite pleased that things are back to normal and this re-wire will wait a few more weeks until haul out. Back to fishing this weekend"