Recent content by Craig Poole

  1. C

    Mercruiser 8.1L not starting

    Thanks all for the replies. All sorted. Had a mercruiser technician come and look. The wiring was badly installed with the new motors. Within an hour he had pulled all the CAN BUS connectors out and removed some bad 12 volt feed and reinstalled both harness's correctly.
  2. C

    Mercruiser 8.1L not starting

    Thanks for the reply. I can find only 1 clean power connector on top of the motor near where the transmission harness joins the main harness. There has never been a fuse in the 2 pin clean power connector. There is a fuse near the battery that is meant to be connected to the DTS on a single...
  3. C

    Mercruiser 8.1L not starting

    Alldodge, Thanks for the reply.All the terminators are connected. What is the purpose of the terminators. Are they just an end for the wiring or do they complete a circuit. Can they fail. Not sure about the 2 connects on the motors. Could you explain a bit more. There only seams to be the main...
  4. C

    Mercruiser 8.1L not starting

    I have a Bertram 35 with twin mercruiser 8.1L DTS and Smartcraft. The transmissions are ZF63A with electronic shift. I recently had the starboard transmission out for repair. After refitting the transmission both motors will not start. There is no power at all to the digital controls. The...
Top