As some of you know we experienced a runaway starter motor while transiting the lock at Ice Harbor Dam last September. I wrote about that in this thread...
http://www.trawlerforum.com/forums/s59/bit-scare-weekend-22499.html
We thought we had all the issues taken care of but then this happened...
http://www.trawlerforum.com/forums/s3/all-dressed-up-nowhere-go-23583.html
So rather than continuing that thread I figured I'd start a new thread and deal only with the problems and the repairs/corrections to those problems.
To bring you up to date, here's what we found right before the parade...
"Well, by way of an update, this has turned into a MUCH bigger mess than what any of us first thought. Let me explain, and forgive me if some of this doesn't make sense. I'm relating what the mechanic told me, as best as my feeble old brain can remember it......
We all know this involved a runaway starter motor in September. The mechanic pulled the starter and had it rebuilt. He reinstalled it and to ops check it he turned on the switches and hit the start switch (momentary switch). When he heard the starter motor kick in and the engine start to turn over, he released the switch, figuring all was good."
Here's what we have found out since....
When the starter motor ran away it burned out a solenoid that is involved with feeding fuel to the engine. Had the mechanic followed up with his test to see if the engine would start he would have found that it wouldn't start due to the lack of fuel.
At the same time there was a lot of wiring on the boat that was overloaded and burned the wiring. That includes the electronic controls on the 24VDC charger. The charger then boiled dry a new set of batteries we had just installed in the spring. So charger and batteries are tits up.
Also, there's a wiring harness that runs from the engine up to a "Y" where it splits the signals, sending them to the upper and lower helms. When that happened some of the starboard gauges at both helms got burned up.
Sea Ray doesn't make that wiring harness any more so it's going to have to be built from scratch. The gauges aren't made any more so not only are the gauges that got burned up going to be replaced, but all new gauges at both helms are going to be replaced so they're all the same at both helms. That also means that since the new gauges have digital sending units, the sending units from all gauges have to be replaced.
We've already had the insurance company involved. They sent a surveyor to meet with the mechanic and the two of them spent over four hours crawling around the boat checking everything out. The surveyor was going to write up his report to the insurance company and it was his opinion that the insurance company would not balk at picking up the cost of this claim.
I'm going to meet with the mechanic on Tuesday to look at gauges to pick the ones I want to go with. The mechanic is going to put together his estimate of the cost of the new wiring harness, the gauges, charger, new batteries and all the other stuff that's going to have to be replaced.
It's good that we found all of this crap at this time of year. We're headed back to AZ right after Christmas and will be down there about 2 months. He'll have all that time to get it fixed and it will be all ready for the summer boating season.
Keeping my fingers crossed here!
Disappointed GFC
http://www.trawlerforum.com/forums/s59/bit-scare-weekend-22499.html
We thought we had all the issues taken care of but then this happened...
http://www.trawlerforum.com/forums/s3/all-dressed-up-nowhere-go-23583.html
So rather than continuing that thread I figured I'd start a new thread and deal only with the problems and the repairs/corrections to those problems.
To bring you up to date, here's what we found right before the parade...
"Well, by way of an update, this has turned into a MUCH bigger mess than what any of us first thought. Let me explain, and forgive me if some of this doesn't make sense. I'm relating what the mechanic told me, as best as my feeble old brain can remember it......
We all know this involved a runaway starter motor in September. The mechanic pulled the starter and had it rebuilt. He reinstalled it and to ops check it he turned on the switches and hit the start switch (momentary switch). When he heard the starter motor kick in and the engine start to turn over, he released the switch, figuring all was good."
Here's what we have found out since....
When the starter motor ran away it burned out a solenoid that is involved with feeding fuel to the engine. Had the mechanic followed up with his test to see if the engine would start he would have found that it wouldn't start due to the lack of fuel.
At the same time there was a lot of wiring on the boat that was overloaded and burned the wiring. That includes the electronic controls on the 24VDC charger. The charger then boiled dry a new set of batteries we had just installed in the spring. So charger and batteries are tits up.
Also, there's a wiring harness that runs from the engine up to a "Y" where it splits the signals, sending them to the upper and lower helms. When that happened some of the starboard gauges at both helms got burned up.
Sea Ray doesn't make that wiring harness any more so it's going to have to be built from scratch. The gauges aren't made any more so not only are the gauges that got burned up going to be replaced, but all new gauges at both helms are going to be replaced so they're all the same at both helms. That also means that since the new gauges have digital sending units, the sending units from all gauges have to be replaced.
We've already had the insurance company involved. They sent a surveyor to meet with the mechanic and the two of them spent over four hours crawling around the boat checking everything out. The surveyor was going to write up his report to the insurance company and it was his opinion that the insurance company would not balk at picking up the cost of this claim.
I'm going to meet with the mechanic on Tuesday to look at gauges to pick the ones I want to go with. The mechanic is going to put together his estimate of the cost of the new wiring harness, the gauges, charger, new batteries and all the other stuff that's going to have to be replaced.
It's good that we found all of this crap at this time of year. We're headed back to AZ right after Christmas and will be down there about 2 months. He'll have all that time to get it fixed and it will be all ready for the summer boating season.
Keeping my fingers crossed here!
Disappointed GFC