Boat is home

[Andys Delight]

I trailered the boat home today, not fun at all pulling it to Branchburg up 287 in this wind but she's home safe.  Shrinkwrap did not fare so well, but oh well.  On to bottom paint and rewiring over the next 3 weeks.

[Luna Sea 5]

todays wasn't a good day to be towing with that wind.. Lucky your home safe.

[NJ Guy]

Hey like i said bud if you need a hand just give me a shout for help with the wiring  

[Reel McCoy]

Good luck with the spring prep work 

[Andys Delight]

Took a look at the wiring...........

That's about where I'm at with it. 

But I did paint the bottom so far.

[BigAl13]

Took a look at the wiring...........

That's about where I'm at with it. 

But I did paint the bottom so far.

Pull one out put one in do them completely one at a time. Unless you have several wires running together than run them at the same time just make sure you tag them so you know which one is which.

[Andys Delight]

Took a look at the wiring...........

That's about where I'm at with it. 

But I did paint the bottom so far.

Pull one out put one in do them completely one at a time. Unless you have several wires running together than run them at the same time just make sure you tag them so you know which one is which.

I'm gonna put some pics up soon, but my biggest issue is alot of the wires are all cluttered together, they go through a makeshift hole then travel behind the wall to the fusebox, so I can't clearly get a handle on what's going to what. 

[Andys Delight]

OK, here are the pics.  The first is the back of the helm after it was unbuttoned, the second is a tough angle but it shows the little makeshift hole that all wires go into the wall, the 3rd is the fusebox. 

My original plan was to create a new, larger hole for the wires to freely travel into and put molding on it so the wires don't chafe, change out the fusebox and replace all wiring to the new fusebox.  Now I'm kinda 

[Duffman]

WOW.

I'm amazed you havent had an electrical problem or fire yet!

[BigAl13]

Holy Spaghetti good luck there. its probably alot easier than it looks. yeah a larger hole would help also some sort of gromet to prevent the sharp glass from cutting the wires. and just do them one at a time. Youll probably find some that go no where and some spliced together a couple times. You should make a list of all your electronics so this way you know what size wires to run. and it never hurts to run a spare for those what if moments.

[Andys Delight]

OK, I managed to trace the nav lights, spotlight, Trim tabs, horn, and Livewell (which I don't even have so I have no idea yet where that switch goes off to) and I think I have the spreadersbut I'm a little confused on it.  

For the spreaders I hooked multimeter up to the wire connection on top of the arch and then down to the switch.  The switch is a 2 connection on off switch.  On one side of the switch is a switched power connection from the radio and a hot lead that I assume goes to the spreaders.  On the other is a single hot wire I'm assuming goes to the fuse box.  When I connect the multimeter to the terminal on the side with the radio and the other wire I get nothing regardless of the switch position.  When I connect it to the single wire on the other terminal I get a positive reading on the multimeter only when the switch is on.  If the switch is off I get no reading at all.  

[fellinger]

Wiring always looks like a clust f**k to me.

Good luck!!

[BigAl13]

Thers only two connectors on the back of the switch? is there a light in the switch?

[Andys Delight]

Thers only two connectors on the back of the switch? is there a light in the switch?

No light, two connectors.  One is definitely the switched hot lead for the radio tapped into what I'm pretty sure is the lead to the spreaders.  The other is a single hot line that I assume runs to the fuse panel.  The spreaders don't work when the switch is on, however they came on last night when the battery was off, switch to the spreaders was on, and they turned on and off with the front spotlight.  Strange.  They're going to get rewired with a dedicated switch and I'm going to drop the switched radio, don't need that as I only listen to it when battery switch power is on anyway. 

[BigAl13]

Sounds like a plan. I like to have everything wired home run it saves headaches but does require more wire, but if its worth doing its worth doing right.

[Scott G.]

   GOOD LUCK   

[DJ76]

holy electrical spaghetti batman!!

[Andys Delight]

Well today it begins.  NJ Guy stopped by yesterday and gave me some advice and help.  I've traced most wires and pulled out the old fuse bus.  Should have alot done today and definitely feeling much more confident about this.  I've noticed alot of these wires are dead ends, so it looks alot worse than it is. 

[Hunter 2]

Good luck,

[NJ Guy]

Well today it begins.  NJ Guy stopped by yesterday and gave me some advice and help.  I've traced most wires and pulled out the old fuse bus.  Should have alot done today and definitely feeling much more confident about this.  I've noticed alot of these wires are dead ends, so it looks alot worse than it is. 

Glad i could help  Not to bad when you start clearing it out