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- Location
- Jefferson City, MO
outter wears are brand new (replaced my old one becuase we thought they were letting water in, blowsion brand)
that is something to look into, tonight we are tearing into the start stop switch and going to check the ground
I JUST MAY HAVE FOUND SOMETHING...
I decided tonight to start testing every wire I have on the boat for continuity (tester has a tone setting) - I pulled the stop/start switch open, and I opened the e-box. Began checking the wires from the plugs just outside the e-box to the inner connectors, and when I got to the inline fuse I started getting some funky music - I pulled the fuse section completely off and took to my bench to further test. The fuse wasn't seating in the holder very good, and with an assistant holding the tester leads to the harness, found I could shake the fuse holder and it was chirping all over the place (bad connection). I pulled the fuse, and squeezed the end cups in each side of the holder so that when I put the (new) fuse in it actually 'bit into' the fuse. Then I pushed it back together and taped it up really good so no chance of coming back apart. NOW the tester shows continuous connection, absolutely no break in the signal.
I don't want to get too excited about this, but it seems to somewhat explain the symptoms - the sporadic stumbles, the fouling of the plugs with no real front or rear preference, the cutoff/stumble when hitting a wake hard, etc.
I may put it all back together tomorrow (after a little more looking around) and take to the local (non-pwc) lake to run on the trailer and see if it tries to stumble again