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    Gauge making me crazy

    I just replaced the sender and seemed to work while at the dock, but once on water, it went up again, but slower than prior to changing sender
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    Gauge making me crazy

    How do I check? Do I remove wire to sender, put a wire in it and then touch to ground? If pegs high, then guage is working?
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    Gauge making me crazy

    The IR was 40 and has been pretty consistent, I take readings all over the motor, simply from fear of over heating, but never had a reading Over 190 on any part of motor, still scary to see the guage that high, driven 35 minutes at 4000 rpms with guage that high and it ran great, no smoke...
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    Gauge making me crazy

    I recently purchased a 2003 Chaparral with a Mercruiser 350 mag MPI the temperature gauge was reading 210 degrees Plus so I changed the impeller I changed the thermostat still getting a high reading, checked with an IR thermometer and it seems to read correctly around 160° close to the...
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    Exhaust temp gauge 350 mag mpi.

    Stirring up old post, but just bought 2003 with 350 mag mpi Temp gauge reading high, but IR thermometer reading lower, is it guages or sending unit
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    Temp Gauge

    I see this post was from Years ago, but if I can stir it up again, just bought a 2003 chaperral 230ssi, temp was reading high...very high, changed tstat and impeller and again reading just above 210ish, I used an IR thermometer and the heads read around 175° so I did the unthinkable and ran...
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    Wet hull

    UPDATE...since I purchased the boat I cleaned the bilge in my driveway apparently the water was running to front of boat, I figured when I drove to dock the water would exit through drain hole, when going to install drain plug noticed it was blocked with debris, put my pinky in and released...
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    Wet hull

    Just picked up a boat from Southern Ohio, (where it has rained all summer) it was on a trailer I'm guessing in a driveway all season, the moisture meter on transom and stringers all read low, but picking up high reading from trailer axles to bow sides? Could it be wet foam?
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    Engine running 🔥

    Someone told me with the Bravo 3 a garden hose doesn't give you enough water to cool the engine that's maybe why it was running at 180 in the
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    2003 Chaparral 230ssi - Rotted Foredeck Question

    Congrats, I went through similar situation...drove 4 hours, I didn't dig as much as you did
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    2003 Chaparral 230ssi - Rotted Foredeck Question

    So did you end up buying the boat? And was issue resolved?
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    Engine running 🔥

    I recently purchased a 2003 chaperral 230ssi with 480 hours, water testing temp gauge went close to 200, the water distribution blue tab was leaking pretty badly, got home changed it and ran on hose where temp leveled off at 180, but that was in driveway with muffs, will it run hotter on...
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