Solved, if anyone cares, lol... figured out that the helm buss bar was not actually directly reaching the negative battery terminal.... it was routing through the ground terminal on the loran-c, so if i disconnected the ground or the power(specifically the negative wire) the whole helm was...
Not sure if anyone can point me in the right direction here, but i am picking away at tasks on a 1972 Bell Boy LV2500 that I picked up. It has a bunch of vintage electronics, some of which I want to remove or replace... it has a Furuno radar that I would like to keep, but I tried removing the...
Yeah, I/O with dual Penta AQ130's and 270 outdrives. One engine is definitely shot, as i drained about 2 gallons of water out of it when I went to check the oil... but i got a spare engine and outdrive with the boat... still considering replacing those with aq131's or some other 8v OHC variant...
Ok, so I picked up a 1975 glasply 2300 to fix up... thing was rough, and as I tore into it, even rougher... i could just scrap it, but I like a project, so im gonna just overhaul it as a long term project.
I pulled up the deck a started chasing rot. And all the stringers are rotted all the way...
Nevermind, I got it... sort of lol. Disconnected the switch to test it, and it tested fine. Wired it back up and then it worked. Maybe the ground was dirty or something.
I just picked up an older (late70s or early 80s) Honda 7.5 CDI. Seller said it had no spark, but it was cheap enough I could afford to replace some parts and still feel good about the deal. The guy had obviously fiddled with it because the kill switch was disconnected and someone the rubber...
