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I have a 2006 SANTE with a ZR6 engine. I poster earlier that the boat was dropping to limp mode going over wakes. I had thought that it was going to be the Potentiometer, but I was wrong. I found today that a red battery cable feed into the fuse box at the driver feet and it had come loose - the nut was missing. This is most unfortunate because I'm not sure what damage has been done as a result. I had limited time to fix it (that's always the case) and in my haste, two things went wrong.
1) The bare end of the cable touched the exposed metal ring on a relay that was down there. It looks an awful lot like this fuel pump relay http://www.nautiqueparts.com/relaypc...umpandecm.aspx. When these touched I thought I heard what sounded like a motor run for about 1-2 seconds and then stopped. I may have imagined it.
2) I tripped the bilge switch by accident when I was down there and I didn't realize it until it was too late. I sat there puzzled as to why the dash was totally 100% dead. I actually paddle-kicked the dead boat back into the slip and had to leave and 45 mins later in the car I realized the dead dash was the bilge switch. I am not used to messing with it - I always leave it off (I hate that bilge solution - just terrible).
Anyway, I am pretty sure that no one has run into this, but I wanted to collect theories. I assume the fuel pump runs on 12v which is most likely what I touched to it, but I have no idea what happened to that relay (and am not 100% certain it was the fuel pump relay, but it was the ONLY one on their site that had that exposed metal ring).
I need to know something about the red wire. I am making an assumption that this loose red wire is supposed to attach to the fuse box. The fuse box has what looks like a matching thick black wire on one side of the fuse box and a screw (with no nut) on the other side where I assume this wire is supposed to go. It was thick, but not as thick as an actual battery cable and it was definitely not like one of those dozens of small signal/communication wires under the dash.
It's going to kill me waiting a week to go see if flipping the bilge solves my dead dash. I really hope so. I can't imagine how EVERYTHING on the dash would be dead otherwise - the horn doesn't blow, no blower, no nothing.
Thanks for any thoughts.
1) The bare end of the cable touched the exposed metal ring on a relay that was down there. It looks an awful lot like this fuel pump relay http://www.nautiqueparts.com/relaypc...umpandecm.aspx. When these touched I thought I heard what sounded like a motor run for about 1-2 seconds and then stopped. I may have imagined it.
2) I tripped the bilge switch by accident when I was down there and I didn't realize it until it was too late. I sat there puzzled as to why the dash was totally 100% dead. I actually paddle-kicked the dead boat back into the slip and had to leave and 45 mins later in the car I realized the dead dash was the bilge switch. I am not used to messing with it - I always leave it off (I hate that bilge solution - just terrible).
Anyway, I am pretty sure that no one has run into this, but I wanted to collect theories. I assume the fuel pump runs on 12v which is most likely what I touched to it, but I have no idea what happened to that relay (and am not 100% certain it was the fuel pump relay, but it was the ONLY one on their site that had that exposed metal ring).
I need to know something about the red wire. I am making an assumption that this loose red wire is supposed to attach to the fuse box. The fuse box has what looks like a matching thick black wire on one side of the fuse box and a screw (with no nut) on the other side where I assume this wire is supposed to go. It was thick, but not as thick as an actual battery cable and it was definitely not like one of those dozens of small signal/communication wires under the dash.
It's going to kill me waiting a week to go see if flipping the bilge solves my dead dash. I really hope so. I can't imagine how EVERYTHING on the dash would be dead otherwise - the horn doesn't blow, no blower, no nothing.
Thanks for any thoughts.