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What's going on everybody and welcome to a Technician's Tuesday where every
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Tuesday I will be bringing you along with me through a normal day as a marine mechanic. I'll be giving out some helpful hints, tips, and outboard service
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tricks along with showing you a sneak peek into future videos of repowers
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rewires, and restoration projects. So hit that subscribe button and without further
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ado let's get into this week's video. This week's Tuesday was pretty calm
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Started off the morning by finishing up installing all the controls on the
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upper station for the venture, which is a project I think you guys are really
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gonna love but I'll introduce that at the end of the day. I installed the
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digital control box, the GPS, and the digital gauges, which we put on a slanted
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bezel so you could read them through the steering wheel. It came out really smooth. Then added the steering wheel and two cup holders. Then we had a 37-foot Boston
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Whaler with triple 300 Mercury Verados come in with no power steering. First
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thing you want to do when looking at these steering systems is make sure that
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it is not the sensing circuit coming from the engines. We activate that by
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using a tool to bypass that and send the turn on signal straight to the pump. If
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that doesn't turn it on we then want to make sure that the pump is getting
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voltage. On these power steering systems they incorporate a switch for the pump
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to pull power from the strongest battery. Make sure there is power at the output
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side of the switch. Then check the large fuse that is in line. And last but not
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least cut the wires at the crimped portion of the wire at the pump and do a
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load test. After performing all these tests and nothing happening it's time to
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replace the pump. When working on a boat and dealing with tons of wires never be
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afraid to get in and cut out all the zip ties. It will make the job ten times
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easier. Remember if something is in the way then move it. We'll be putting new
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zip ties on when we've completed the job anyway. For this we simply remove the old
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pump and put in a new one. Liquid electric tape is nice to put onto the
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studs and then before putting everything back together we will test out the new pump and purge the air out of the system. In order to do this all we
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need to do is just turn on the engine and pour the fluid in until it reaches
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about one inch or so from the top of the reservoir. Then turn the engine back and
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forth a couple times to get all the air to come out. And that's it we are done
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This boat also had a shifting issue on the port engine but after testing the
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shift actuator and checking the lower unit oil we could not duplicate the
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problem so the client came and picked up his boat happy to be back out on the
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water. With about two hours left in the day I took some measurements from the
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upper station of the venture and built a starboard bracket to bolt the mercury
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command modules and junction boxes to and a power block to connect the GPS to
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as well. It will also be used to screw zip tie holders to in order to tie down
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all of the harnesses to give what is called tension relief to any electrical
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plug. Manufacturers want to have some sort of support for the wire within six
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inches of the plug to relieve the stress and constant pulling of the wire when
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the boat is going through rougher water. And this ends our day here on Tuesday
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but I didn't forget here's the current project that is in the works. This is a
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1999 34 venture named Desperado. It originally had Yamaha 250 horsepower OX66's on it then got repowered with two Yamaha 250 four-stroke engines. Still
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using the Yamaha 6x1 boxes eventually became such a problem that you could
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barely take the boat out without having a serious issue. So this boat is getting
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rewired and a pair of mercury 300 horsepower Verados put on it. Lots of
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upgrades too from the hatch latches and gas shocks to the autopilot system this
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boat is going to be super sweet when we get done with it. And we'll be making a
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video of that entire process as well so we hope you'll get subscribed to the
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channel and get that bell on so when the video drops you will know it. Thanks for
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joining us on this Technicians Tuesday and we'll see you next week
