Electrical failure
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Printed Date: November-30-2024 at 10:54pm
Topic: Electrical failure
Posted By: Poster112
Subject: Electrical failure
Date Posted: September-03-2006 at 9:59am
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I need some quick advice from some of you more experienced owners.
My 78 Ski Nautique suddenly stopped yesterday when all of elecrical cut off. I was running at high cruising speed (35- 40) and the engine just shut off, along with all of my electrical devices. I had mistakenly left the blower on, but do not know if that is significant. Anyway, I checked all connections, battery, and everything. Temp had been at a steady 160, oil pressure was fine. After sitting and trying the blower and starter about 3 or four times, It just all came back on and started right up and runs fine now, but I did not "fix" anything. I am afraid that it may happen again at a worse time and not "correct itself". It has a commander 351w with 40 hours since rebuild, if that is helpful info. Any ideas would be greatly appreciated. ------------- I'd rather have a bottle-in-front-of-me than a frontal-lobotomy. http://correctcraftfan.com/diaries/details.asp?ID=3182&sort=&pagenum=1&yrstart=1925&yrend=2009" rel="nofollow - 1985 Ski 1984 SW |
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Posted By: The Dude
Date Posted: September-03-2006 at 5:37pm
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Yikes! There have been many threads here recently dealing with electrical problems. Perhaps you've already searched them. A couple have been related to key switch issues, one to the safety lanyard, a couple starter relay issues. Maybe one can give you some ideas. Have you checked wiring to look for any burning or bad connections?
love your signature. I even quoted it to my wife last week. One of the best. ------------- Mullet Free since 93 http://www.correctcraftfan.com/diaries/details.asp?ID=717&sort=&pagenum=1&yrstart=1991&yrend=1995" rel="nofollow - 95 Sport 1978 Ski Nautique |
Posted By: JEFF KOSTIS
Date Posted: September-03-2006 at 9:51pm
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In order for everything to die, it isolates the problem to the main battery cables, or feeds (ground and hot) to the dash. Check battery connections, and main battery hot and ground connections, as well as the main feeds in the engine harness connector to the dash. Also check main feeds at the dash. It isnt a ign key issue as the blower went dead. Not sure if yours has a large circuit breaker at the engine, but if it does, tap it with a hammer (dont break it).
If no visible signs, run the blower and lights with the engine off and wiggle all connections and see if you can make it die or get some arching. Be careful not make sparks around the battery if thats the problem area and wear gla$$es!!!! Good luck!! Jeff... ------------- MUSTANG COUNTRY http://www.correctcraftfan.com/diaries/details.asp?ID=1074 - 1974 Mustang 17 http://www.correctcraftfan.com/diaries/details.asp?ID=1093 - 1976 Mustang 17 |
Posted By: Poster112
Date Posted: September-04-2006 at 8:16am
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Thanks to both of you.
I could not not replicate the problem yesterday, when I wiggled every connection. When it happened, I wiggled every connection that I could find. Perhaps that did it. No circuit breaker on the engine. I hate not knowing exactly what the problem is, though. Oh well. As my dad told me, "welcome to boat ownership." 
Dude, I cannot remember where I first heard that saying. How true it is, though! ------------- I'd rather have a bottle-in-front-of-me than a frontal-lobotomy. http://correctcraftfan.com/diaries/details.asp?ID=3182&sort=&pagenum=1&yrstart=1925&yrend=2009" rel="nofollow - 1985 Ski 1984 SW |
Posted By: jimbo
Date Posted: September-05-2006 at 3:21am
| I had that problem last summer I think. Turned out the connection where the Negative battery cable connects to the clamp was loose. I tightened the bolts and no more problems. |
Posted By: ultrarunner
Date Posted: September-10-2006 at 12:34am
| Your connection at the main ignition fuse could be loose. It's an inline fuse under the dash. |
Posted By: Poster112
Date Posted: September-10-2006 at 7:00pm
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Thanks, all. I have still not been able to make it happen again. Perhaps, the bit of wiggling that I did fixed it. I guess that I can't complain about a problem NOT occuring. ------------- I'd rather have a bottle-in-front-of-me than a frontal-lobotomy. http://correctcraftfan.com/diaries/details.asp?ID=3182&sort=&pagenum=1&yrstart=1925&yrend=2009" rel="nofollow - 1985 Ski 1984 SW |
Posted By: ultrarunner
Date Posted: September-10-2006 at 7:03pm
Not until it rears it's ugly head in the middle of the lake late at night with no one around! |
Poster112 wrote:Posted By: Poster112
Date Posted: September-11-2006 at 1:37pm
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That's right. That's why I posted this in the first place. With my luck, that is when it will happen again. ------------- I'd rather have a bottle-in-front-of-me than a frontal-lobotomy. http://correctcraftfan.com/diaries/details.asp?ID=3182&sort=&pagenum=1&yrstart=1925&yrend=2009" rel="nofollow - 1985 Ski 1984 SW |
Posted By: 79nautique
Date Posted: September-12-2006 at 9:44am
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here are the area's to check, wires going to the ignition switch, wiring harness plug behind the dash and at the rear of the engine block, both ends of the battery cables.
I would also get a new coil and have that handy for when it happens again, you'll have a coil to install and fix the problem. ------------- http://www.correctcraftfan.com/diaries/details.asp?ID=756&sort=&pagenum=1&yrstart=1979&yrend=1979 - 79 nautique |
Posted By: JEFF KOSTIS
Date Posted: September-12-2006 at 9:02pm
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79, he is loosing ALL power to the dash since his blower dies. If a coil were bad, the engine would quit, but everything else wouldnt quit.....Right.....
Jeff... ------------- MUSTANG COUNTRY http://www.correctcraftfan.com/diaries/details.asp?ID=1074 - 1974 Mustang 17 http://www.correctcraftfan.com/diaries/details.asp?ID=1093 - 1976 Mustang 17 |
Posted By: 79nautique
Date Posted: September-13-2006 at 10:12am
let me but it this way, when my new coil went bad weeks into it being installed the engine would not turn over and power was dead everywhere. Only thing I could figure out is the way the wiring harness is tied into the coil curcuit. You wouldn't think it would make a difference but it does, I know from first hand expirence ------------- http://www.correctcraftfan.com/diaries/details.asp?ID=756&sort=&pagenum=1&yrstart=1979&yrend=1979 - 79 nautique |
Posted By: WackyWillie
Date Posted: September-13-2006 at 1:04pm
Hahaha 
I don't doubt your experience one bit!  ------------- JJ's seein' it right. |
Posted By: Tim D
Date Posted: September-13-2006 at 1:05pm
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So you have wires from the coil going to the distributor and wires leaving the coil going somewhere else? Never seen that. ------------- Tim D |
Posted By: 79nautique
Date Posted: September-13-2006 at 1:46pm
if you don't have four wires going to your coil then they are spliced somewhere else and it has been altered from the way it left the factory. Will that is if you have an electroinc dist, a point dist has three wires. ------------- http://www.correctcraftfan.com/diaries/details.asp?ID=756&sort=&pagenum=1&yrstart=1979&yrend=1979 - 79 nautique |
Posted By: Tim D
Date Posted: September-13-2006 at 3:15pm
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Mine has two wires, pos and neg going to the coil when it had points and now with electronic. I don't know what the original setup was, I know the voltage regulator etc. at the back over the tranny is not original. What would be a purpose of wiring it so that a dead coil would break the circuit? ------------- Tim D |
Posted By: 79nautique
Date Posted: September-13-2006 at 4:31pm
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I would suggust that you review the wiring diagram in the reference section pcm manuals and you will see that the pos to the coil is directly connected to the ign switch and that the neg feeds the dash thru the tach and if your's does not have wirings going from the dist to the coil then they are splited somewhere else otherwise.
it will not fire the coil without a signal from the dist. Sounds like your wiring is pretty hacked together otherwise you would have wires directly from the dist to the coil. The wiring diagram is quite clear showing the connections as I discribe. ------------- http://www.correctcraftfan.com/diaries/details.asp?ID=756&sort=&pagenum=1&yrstart=1979&yrend=1979 - 79 nautique |
Posted By: Tim D
Date Posted: September-13-2006 at 4:55pm
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Mine is not "pretty hacked together". PCM had nothing to do with Correct Craft in 1966 because they didn't exsist. Mine is just as you described pos to the coil from ignition switch, and a ground wire and a neg wire going bacin to the tach. I don't understand "it will not fire the coil without a signal from the dist". If you hook a ciruit tester (screw driver w/light inside) to the neg side of the coil and ground the alligator clip, crank the engine the light will blink, which is the distributor breaking fire. I do have wires directly from the coil to the distributor, that's what I said, I didn't refer about wires going to the coil and back to the tach in the other post. ------------- Tim D |
Posted By: 79nautique
Date Posted: September-13-2006 at 5:01pm
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I don't know how yours is hacked together or by who but it has to have a wire connected from the neg side of the coil to the dist end of story otherwise it doesn't fire. Just because you don't see another wire at the coil doesn't mean that it's not spliced somewhere else making the connection.
------------- http://www.correctcraftfan.com/diaries/details.asp?ID=756&sort=&pagenum=1&yrstart=1979&yrend=1979 - 79 nautique |
Posted By: 79nautique
Date Posted: September-13-2006 at 5:07pm
maybe this will help but I doubt it. notice where the ground is for the ign switch, that's why you loose all power to everything when the coil shorts. ------------- http://www.correctcraftfan.com/diaries/details.asp?ID=756&sort=&pagenum=1&yrstart=1979&yrend=1979 - 79 nautique |
Posted By: boat dr
Date Posted: September-13-2006 at 5:16pm
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79 you have a lot of good and knowledgable info to share with others in this group,but sometimes you come across in a condacinding mood ,this is not real good a far as a teacher/student dialog is concerned,some of our boats,early 60's are a little different than yours,but are wired and work about the same,share your experience not your attitude. All of us dont have a 10 boat like you, but with your help we can try.............boat dr ------------- boat dr /diaries/details.asp?ID=4631 - 1949 Dart /diaries/details.asp?ID=1533 - 1964 American Skier |
Posted By: Tim D
Date Posted: September-13-2006 at 5:35pm
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79, your reading comprehension is about as good as your spelling, oh you call it grammar. There's nothing hacked on my boat. I would call your wal-mart special sony explode hacked. ------------- Tim D |
Posted By: 79nautique
Date Posted: September-13-2006 at 5:38pm
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well you can either listen or do what you want and hope you fix the problem, I'm not here to teach, I'm here to tell you how it is and should be regarding topics that I know about.
There's two guys on here that always come up with off the wall bullsh*t when it comes to electrical issues and 90% of the time they run the guy in circles with cla$$room BS instead of fixing the problem. ------------- http://www.correctcraftfan.com/diaries/details.asp?ID=756&sort=&pagenum=1&yrstart=1979&yrend=1979 - 79 nautique |
Posted By: 79nautique
Date Posted: September-13-2006 at 5:48pm
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Tim it's the same old bullsh*t with you,
you asked how can the coil kill the power to everything and if you look at the wiring diagram it's pretty clear where the ground for the dash and ign switch come from. If yours only has two wires that's fine I don't care that's not the way it came from the factory and you even state that the wiring at the regulator and circuit breaker are wacked. The way yours is doesn't help this guy figure out why he had a complete lose of electricall power and I explained how he could have a complete lose of power when everything elese looks fine with the wire connections and there are no loose wires or oxidized connections so what else could have caused his problem that fixed it's self ?????? the coil can jack a$$. ------------- http://www.correctcraftfan.com/diaries/details.asp?ID=756&sort=&pagenum=1&yrstart=1979&yrend=1979 - 79 nautique |
Posted By: Tim D
Date Posted: September-13-2006 at 6:12pm
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Many years ago my coil died, it still cranked. I put an Accel coil on it. With the coil unhooked, it will crank. I never said it only has two wires. It has a hot wire, from the ignition, and a ground wire. Then there's a pos and neg leads going to the distributor. There's another wire on the coil going back to the tach, not the whole electrical system, which is fine because you don't care. ------------- Tim D |
Posted By: 79nautique
Date Posted: September-13-2006 at 6:41pm
I guess your memory is shorter than somthing else ------------- http://www.correctcraftfan.com/diaries/details.asp?ID=756&sort=&pagenum=1&yrstart=1979&yrend=1979 - 79 nautique |
Posted By: Tim D
Date Posted: September-13-2006 at 6:50pm
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You're so gay, you must have d*cks in your mouth or on your mind all the time. ------------- Tim D |
Posted By: 79nautique
Date Posted: September-13-2006 at 7:12pm
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No funny picture this time, ah what a same.
Same old sh*t wrong again timmy, It just came to me you must teach the short bus cla$$, that's why nobody understands or cares about what you have to say. ------------- http://www.correctcraftfan.com/diaries/details.asp?ID=756&sort=&pagenum=1&yrstart=1979&yrend=1979 - 79 nautique |
Posted By: Tim D
Date Posted: September-13-2006 at 8:14pm
Here's a funny picture of your fat a$$.
"Get in my belly Correct Craft and battery knowledge" ------------- Tim D |
Posted By: Poster112
Date Posted: September-13-2006 at 8:38pm
Holy crap! LOL I'm holding you both responsible for me spraying coffee all over my laptop from laughing! I haven't had time to run around in circles, yet trying to fix it. I'll get to it this weekend. Until then, I'll keep reading. ------------- I'd rather have a bottle-in-front-of-me than a frontal-lobotomy. http://correctcraftfan.com/diaries/details.asp?ID=3182&sort=&pagenum=1&yrstart=1925&yrend=2009" rel="nofollow - 1985 Ski 1984 SW |
Posted By: 79nautique
Date Posted: September-13-2006 at 8:44pm
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yea timmy spends too much time on the computer and there's not much time for anything else like women. ------------- http://www.correctcraftfan.com/diaries/details.asp?ID=756&sort=&pagenum=1&yrstart=1979&yrend=1979 - 79 nautique |
Posted By: Tim D
Date Posted: September-13-2006 at 8:47pm
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You're the one with 2056 posts, by the way, that pic took about 10 seconds. ------------- Tim D |
Posted By: 79nautique
Date Posted: September-13-2006 at 8:50pm
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I post alot while at work see ya got to get back to my women in the other room looser. ------------- http://www.correctcraftfan.com/diaries/details.asp?ID=756&sort=&pagenum=1&yrstart=1979&yrend=1979 - 79 nautique |
Posted By: Tim D
Date Posted: September-13-2006 at 8:56pm
Oh, these girls, have fun.
 ------------- Tim D |
Posted By: JEFF KOSTIS
Date Posted: September-13-2006 at 10:12pm
Hope your computer still works!!!
Jeff... ------------- MUSTANG COUNTRY http://www.correctcraftfan.com/diaries/details.asp?ID=1074 - 1974 Mustang 17 http://www.correctcraftfan.com/diaries/details.asp?ID=1093 - 1976 Mustang 17 |
Posted By: JEFF KOSTIS
Date Posted: September-13-2006 at 10:39pm
Getting back to the point, if the coil were dead shorted.... A) The resistor would get hot B) If no resistor is present, CC has a ign fuse that would blow. C) If no fusing or protection anywhere, and ALL connections are good, you would have a meltdown of wires, then everything would be going dead. 79 how is yours wired??? Jeff... ------------- MUSTANG COUNTRY http://www.correctcraftfan.com/diaries/details.asp?ID=1074 - 1974 Mustang 17 http://www.correctcraftfan.com/diaries/details.asp?ID=1093 - 1976 Mustang 17 |
Posted By: rmcdonald
Date Posted: September-14-2006 at 2:40am
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Hi Chris
I would take a voltmeter or a multimeter out with you each time until you find the problem. If it happens again. Check the voltage across the battery as a reference and then check the voltage at the feed coming into the back of the ignition key switch. If you have no volts or big voltage drop, then disconnect the positive wire from the coil. Turn your key to the ignition position to see if all you instrument cluster comes alive or operate you blower. This will prove if your coil is the problem as you are taking it out of the circuit. Question: Does positive wire for your blower switch come from the main feed point on ignition key switch key or does it go via the ignition point on the switch. Meaning does the blower work with out ignition being turned on. If the blower works only with the key turned on then it could also be a faulty ignition switch, unlikely but possible as it becomes the single point of failure on the circuit. Hope this helps Regards Rob ------------- http://www.correctcraftfan.com/diaries/details.asp?ID=1177 - |
Posted By: WackyWillie
Date Posted: September-14-2006 at 7:49am
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Listen up, and you listen up good. You keep your big honkin nose in that schematic where it belongs. I'll take care of the women you loser.
------------- JJ's seein' it right. |
Posted By: 79nautique
Date Posted: September-14-2006 at 8:51am
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Willie your just a plain old stupid jack a$$
Rob I don't have the problem just pointing out if the coil windings go bad then you can have an open ground killing all power to everything and it can be intermediate. so Jeff if there is an open ground there is no current to flow or get a resitor hot because there isn't a path for it to flow through. A coil cannot short it is impossible for a continuus wire to short, the wire breaks creating and open curcuit or it would be the same thing as cutting a wire in two. An Ignition coil is made of two coils of wire that do not interact with each other and are seperate, their called a primary winding, heavy gauge wire 12-16 gauge with a couple hundred turns and a secondary winding made from about 36-42 gauge wire and several thousand turns. The primary and secondary winds cannot come into contact with each other by design. The ground for the ignintion switch to energize the solenoid comes from the coil's ground through the tach so if the ign switch doesn't have a ground nothing does. Same old sh*t with you so called electrical experts do this do that check that check this, ignore what the guy has already told you, he's check all of the connections, he's cleaned the connections, he's wiggled all of the connections, he's check the connections with a voltmeter, the problem fixed it's self and he's worried it's going to happen again because he found nothing wrong anywhere, SO what do you two clowns suggest??? doing the same sh*t he already has done great help really helps the guy out alot. NOT What have I suggested a possible cause to his intermediate problem and where else his problem could be. Hell you can go back and check other posting regarding electrical issue's and 99% you two clowns give the same bullsh*t it's like you cut and paste the crap. Offer the guy some real help once in a while. ------------- http://www.correctcraftfan.com/diaries/details.asp?ID=756&sort=&pagenum=1&yrstart=1979&yrend=1979 - 79 nautique |
Posted By: WackyWillie
Date Posted: September-14-2006 at 9:05am
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eat my shorts ------------- JJ's seein' it right. |
Posted By: Jim_In_Houston
Date Posted: September-14-2006 at 9:06am
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79, Who are the two guys you refer to?
Boat Dr, what is the year and model of the CC in your pic and why is there a TV remote on your dash? You guys are getting way too high tech. As far as the boat dying all together I think the kid accidently switched it off or it is a soon to die ignition switch. You guys and your cla$$room arguments are just too much. I think I am going to once again, try to work up the courage to mount my speedometer. I'll take a before and after pic. (Sorry for the hijack but not so sorry I don't do it.) Poster, my best advise is to study up on how to hot wire that baby, carry extra wire, wire cutters and strippers, extra coils, extra points, extra everything. Carrying these items along will almost surely cure the problem. The only thing is as soon as you gain confidence and remove those items from your boat the problem will immediatly reoccure. ------------- Happy owner of a '66 and a '68 Mustang |
Posted By: 79nautique
Date Posted: September-14-2006 at 9:17am
I was refering to Jeff and Tim, JIm The reason I suggested the coil being the issue is because it has happened to me, and once I got towed back to the dock and got my test light and multimeter to diagnois the issue it was the coil and it killed power to everything starter included. It just gets me that the two always suggest the same things when it comes to an electrical problem and rarely do they every solve the problem for the person asking. ------------- http://www.correctcraftfan.com/diaries/details.asp?ID=756&sort=&pagenum=1&yrstart=1979&yrend=1979 - 79 nautique |
Posted By: Jim_In_Houston
Date Posted: September-14-2006 at 9:26am
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It's always hard to solve an electrical problem from a remote location. First you have to presume the boat owner has some level of skill and this presumption may be false. You could tell someone to hook a wire to their coil and they run it to their fuel pump. Then they blame you when their garage burns down. You never know. I've told this story before: I once, as a favor, changed a tail light bulb in a car and the engine developed a serious miss. The owner wanted me to fix the engine because "it was running fine before I messed with it". This is a true story. ------------- Happy owner of a '66 and a '68 Mustang |
Posted By: Jim_In_Houston
Date Posted: September-14-2006 at 9:30am
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By the way TimD, those are cute pics but you really should pull them down. ------------- Happy owner of a '66 and a '68 Mustang |
Posted By: 79nautique
Date Posted: September-14-2006 at 9:48am
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Jim I bet you've never helped that guy out again after you changed the bulb. I've seen that happen a coulpe of times at my dad's shop people wait to the last moment before fixing a problem then when it breaks down in the drive of the shop while diagnoising it it the shops fault. Seen it happen more than I cared too sometimes you just go ahead and fix it other times you just tell them to stick it where the sun don't shine. ------------- http://www.correctcraftfan.com/diaries/details.asp?ID=756&sort=&pagenum=1&yrstart=1979&yrend=1979 - 79 nautique |
Posted By: boat dr
Date Posted: September-14-2006 at 10:04am
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jim,1964 american skier. orig. motor H/M 289..331 stroker now resides there,just completed install,trying to prop it now.13x13 dbl. cup not enough,13 x16 Ausrel 4 blade too much but soooooo smooth,sent it back to General Propeller for the repitch.remote is for the 52" plasma that mounted under the rear seat...........I have not drilled any holes in her,Pioneer/cd/Sirius radio mounted on kick plate way under the dash,too far to reach easily .jim are you the one that had the Alum. exhaust manifolds,if so are they syill for sale????? want KNOT CORRECT to be as orig. looking as possible......boat dr ------------- boat dr /diaries/details.asp?ID=4631 - 1949 Dart /diaries/details.asp?ID=1533 - 1964 American Skier |
Posted By: Jim_In_Houston
Date Posted: September-14-2006 at 11:44am
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boat dr,
I had bought a pair of manifolds on Ebay but when they arrived I saw they had an extra hose fitting that is not used on my engines so I relisted them and sold them. They looked good but after seeing them I repacked and sold. I got an email from the fellow I sold them to saying they were rotten inside and caused his engine to fill up with water. I told him to return them to me and I would refund his money but I never heard from him again. So, I feel bad but it's good you didn't buy them from me. ------------- Happy owner of a '66 and a '68 Mustang |
Posted By: Poster112
Date Posted: September-14-2006 at 7:00pm
I did not accidentally switch it off. It would be a stretch to say I have any electrical experience, but I know that I did not accidentally switch it off. I also know that my blower works without the switch turned at all and guages, horn, etc. work with batt turned on whether or not the engine is running. When this happened, no blower, no anything. That told me that it is not the ignition switch, but that is ALL I knew before posting this. I'll carry the suggested tools on board from now on, check the switch (maybe replace just to rule it out) and I'll learn more about the electrical system and exactly how it is wired. All of the advice is appreciated, though I know that some is worth what I paid for it.
Thanks. Chris ------------- I'd rather have a bottle-in-front-of-me than a frontal-lobotomy. http://correctcraftfan.com/diaries/details.asp?ID=3182&sort=&pagenum=1&yrstart=1925&yrend=2009" rel="nofollow - 1985 Ski 1984 SW |
Posted By: Jim_In_Houston
Date Posted: September-14-2006 at 7:54pm
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Chris, I wasn't calling you a kid - I thought maybe you had a kid on board and besides I meant it tongue-in-cheek.
There is an old saying among electrical techs: if you want to find an intermittent electrical power problem put a meter on the machine. The problem will never occur while you are watching so therefore the meter fixes the problem. That is what I was illuding to by carrying all of the spare parts. It is a serius problem and I do feel you pain. These intermittent problems are difficult to chase down even for the most experienced techs. Hang in there, we'll get it fixed sooner or later. I think it could still be a faulty switch even though your blower worked, anyone? I think the switch as multiple contacts in it some of which might fail. Although this is pure speculation - I've never seen it happen. I wanted to just throw another thought out on the table. ------------- Happy owner of a '66 and a '68 Mustang |
Posted By: 79nautique
Date Posted: September-14-2006 at 7:59pm
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Chris don't take jim to seriously I think he was just messing with you but I would suggest something that you could do in the drive to verify my point and maybe give you some piece of mind or at worse your still in the same boat.
But you could disconnect the leads to the coil make sure they do not make contact with each other or a ground source, tape them off if needed and see if the blower and other gauges go dead like they did when you had the problem. Be sure and disconnect the neg cable at the battery first before removing the wires at the coil and once they are taped off or safely out of harms way reconnect the bat cable and see if there is power to the blower, then reverse everything and put it back like it was before you started. Simple easy test and if the blower doesn't work then the odds are the problem is the coil is getting ready to die on you. If it does work then your still in the same spot with a bunch of unknowns and will need the test light and multimeter to track it down when it happens again. Good luck sorry for all the ranting and raving with jeff and tim common issue with them and electrical problems. ------------- http://www.correctcraftfan.com/diaries/details.asp?ID=756&sort=&pagenum=1&yrstart=1979&yrend=1979 - 79 nautique |
Posted By: Jim_In_Houston
Date Posted: September-14-2006 at 8:14pm
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Oh hell, Chris ain't seen nothin yet. Wait until Jeff and I get into it. Hey Jeff, I'm keeping an eye on you. Keep your code book and Ohms Law handy!!! ------------- Happy owner of a '66 and a '68 Mustang |
Posted By: Tim D
Date Posted: September-14-2006 at 9:32pm
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Tim? I thought you were calling me timmy now? ------------- Tim D |
Posted By: JEFF KOSTIS
Date Posted: September-14-2006 at 11:16pm
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JIH, you know we have a good time with no hate. To me, thats how things get figured out. Its all fun, and 79 sometimes seems to take things too personally. I would never say I know as much about engines as him, as it wouldnt be true.
I dont like the idea of guesswork. Spending $$$ replacing things that are OK. Plus, you learn from civil controversy. Thanks to JIH, Im sure he and I both learned something more in the code book, as well as a fun challenge, but he is still cool. Sure you can guess, but cla$$room posts are NOT a bad thing. What this cla$$room needs is some disipline. Someone might learn something, and be able to have a clue if it happens again. JIH, maybe we should go at it again and show them how its done!!!
Jeff.... ------------- MUSTANG COUNTRY http://www.correctcraftfan.com/diaries/details.asp?ID=1074 - 1974 Mustang 17 http://www.correctcraftfan.com/diaries/details.asp?ID=1093 - 1976 Mustang 17 |
Posted By: Jim_In_Houston
Date Posted: September-14-2006 at 11:32pm
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If this kissy kissy stuff keeps up I'm going to have to start wearing a condom before I login.
Where's jbear? ------------- Happy owner of a '66 and a '68 Mustang |
Posted By: The Dude
Date Posted: September-15-2006 at 1:15am
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J_I_H, I think you should. That would make your posts even funnier. ------------- Mullet Free since 93 http://www.correctcraftfan.com/diaries/details.asp?ID=717&sort=&pagenum=1&yrstart=1991&yrend=1995" rel="nofollow - 95 Sport 1978 Ski Nautique |