so the big day taking the family out on the river for the first time on a beautiful saturday after wrenching on this new to me boat all summer long came to an end before I even got disconnected from the trailer... Murphy's Law strikes yet again and as soon as the Illinois DNR gets around to issuing my title it's going up for sale, just tired of having a boat that is nothing but a PITA.
symtoms were as follows: boat started right up, idled for 20 seconds then I hear a single click under the dash, engine quits and all the gauges go dead, nothing then happens when key is turned. Wait 30 seconds and it comes back to life, starts up, then 20 seconds later, same thing, over and over. The purple wire at the back of the key switch seemed hot.
Upon inspection - and I can only guess this is related, but I don't how, and definitely don't know why or how this could happen - I see that the fuel pump at the wiring connector is burned up to a crisp and the positive side of the fuel pump terminal is literally broken.
Any ideas on what's going on here? I've literally spent my last dollar on rebuilding the motor and outdrive and can't afford to go buy a new fuel pump right now so my hopes of getting out on the water in my new boat are pretty much sunk, however, if I did somehow get a new pump on there, I certainly don't want to have this happen again.
I can't seem to either load a normal picture as the 2 mb limit prevents it, or the compressed pictures are too tiny to see? Anyway, the 90 degree plastic part of the pump that contains the pos and neg contacts is charred and melted and obviously got way too hot, but the wires feeding the pump do not have any melted insulation and the connector itself is ok.
symtoms were as follows: boat started right up, idled for 20 seconds then I hear a single click under the dash, engine quits and all the gauges go dead, nothing then happens when key is turned. Wait 30 seconds and it comes back to life, starts up, then 20 seconds later, same thing, over and over. The purple wire at the back of the key switch seemed hot.
Upon inspection - and I can only guess this is related, but I don't how, and definitely don't know why or how this could happen - I see that the fuel pump at the wiring connector is burned up to a crisp and the positive side of the fuel pump terminal is literally broken.
Any ideas on what's going on here? I've literally spent my last dollar on rebuilding the motor and outdrive and can't afford to go buy a new fuel pump right now so my hopes of getting out on the water in my new boat are pretty much sunk, however, if I did somehow get a new pump on there, I certainly don't want to have this happen again.
I can't seem to either load a normal picture as the 2 mb limit prevents it, or the compressed pictures are too tiny to see? Anyway, the 90 degree plastic part of the pump that contains the pos and neg contacts is charred and melted and obviously got way too hot, but the wires feeding the pump do not have any melted insulation and the connector itself is ok.
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