Ex-Aquasport/Wellcraft employee (Bob C)...

[seabob4]

CD,
Ignition and tilt/trim get their power through the engine harness.  If you put a meter on the red wire on you ign switch, it should read voltage with the key off.  This gives you trim/tilt.  Turn the key to "run", and the purple wire should now have voltage.  This enables your gauges and anything else that relies on ignition power...

Just to clarify, this power doesn't come from inside to boat (to use simple terms). It's all in the harness then directly from the motor to the battery.

CD,
That's correct.  The boat's harness and the engine harness are 2 entirely separate entities, though they share the ground.  That's it as far as "co-mingling"...

[Robob]

Seabob,

It's great to know you're here:-)

I recently bought a 1995 175 Osprey which surveyed A-1 and seems to be very solid.

Can I tip the console up to get at wiring and steering without destroying the live well plumbing?

I've gotten different answer from every former dealer I contacted.

Thanks in advance,
Bob on Tampa Bay

[seabob4]

Bob,
That console should be installed with #14 lag screws, if I remember correctly.  Pretty sure it wasn't t/bolted.  Remove the screws, then lift up the back end, there should be enough slack in the feed and drain hoses of the livewell where you can probably lift her up about 6"-8" without bothering anything, maybe more.  Get a buddy to help you, and while he lifts, you lay on the deck and see just how much hose you can coax up from under the deck.  Just don't get carried away!

[Robob]

Thank you very much:-)

That solves my problem.

Bob on Tampa Bay

[stringali]

Hey Bob,  

I was showing my son that post you had written in regard to strengthening my hatch to the fish box.  What do you mean by let kick?  Hope that all is well.  I am looking forward to another great boating season.

Steve

[seabob4]

Steve,
It's a term we use meaning harden, or kick-off.  It's when the catylist and the resin become one...very hard substance!

[cdoyal]

Bob to the white phone for an electrical question please:
I have a mini-harness going to the tach. There are several wires bundled together. Sender, ground, light, etc. One of the wires is purple (for the ignition, I'm assuming). Can I run all my ignition feeds off it?
Thanks,
Chris

[jdevoid]

Seabob


2001 AS 225 EX - I found what appears to be future use wiring inside my cabin, Two sets dangling just under the port and starboard lights with finished ends. There is a good 8 ft extra wire in each coil.  I believe they are white wires. Any idea what they are for?

[cdoyal]

Seabob


2001 AS 225 EX - I found what appears to be future use wiring inside my cabin, Two sets dangling just under the port and starboard lights with finished ends. There is a good 8 ft extra wire in each coil.  I believe they are white wires. Any idea what they are for?

Funny you mention that. In redoing my dash, I found a mystery white wire too. No idea what it's for.

[seabob4]

Bob to the white phone for an electrical question please:
I have a mini-harness going to the tach. There are several wires bundled together. Sender, ground, light, etc. One of the wires is purple (for the ignition, I'm assuming). Can I run all my ignition feeds off it?
Thanks,
Chris

CD, yes you can.  Terminate the purple to the "I" post on your tach, then daisy chain to the other gauges...

[seabob4]

Seabob


2001 AS 225 EX - I found what appears to be future use wiring inside my cabin, Two sets dangling just under the port and starboard lights with finished ends. There is a good 8 ft extra wire in each coil.  I believe they are white wires. Any idea what they are for?

Funny you mention that. In redoing my dash, I found a mystery white wire too. No idea what it's for.

I'm pretty sure those are pull wires, especially if there is no ground accompanying them...

[cdoyal]

Bob to the white phone for an electrical question please:
I have a mini-harness going to the tach. There are several wires bundled together. Sender, ground, light, etc. One of the wires is purple (for the ignition, I'm assuming). Can I run all my ignition feeds off it?
Thanks,
Chris

CD, yes you can.  Terminate the purple to the "I" post on your tach, then daisy chain to the other gauges...

I've got a purple on my tilt wiring bundle too. I'll connect those two and daisy chain them all together.  Should take care of it.
My wife and I spent the afternoon fishing new wires from the forward bilge up to the helm. I think I owe her.

[Circle Hooked]

Bob i was at m surplus the other day and drove slow by wellcraft next door,nothing going on but they do have a security guard,and i also saw some boat molds out back,maybe that's why,anyway i was wondering if you worked out of there or the site on Whitfield.

[seabob4]

Bob i was at m surplus the other day and drove slow by wellcraft next door,nothing going on but they do have a security guard,and i also saw some boat molds out back,maybe that's why,anyway i was wondering if you worked out of there or the site on Whitfield.

Scott,
I did about a 6 month stint down at plant 1 (by Marine Surplus) when they move the 225/250 Osprey and 230 Cat line down there, but got back to Plant 6 on Whitfield to wire Scarab Sports.  Plant 1 was a MISERABLE place!  So, 5 1/2 years on Whitfield, 6 months at Plant 1.

[RickK]

Plant 1 looks really old and decrepit - must still do some customer service or something out of there - seen some big Hydrasports and such there.