What year is your C-27. On my 85, every factory terminal crimp was defective. When I mean every terminal, I mean ever terminal. This included the #4 battery terminal crimps, light crimps, the fan wire crimp. How can I say this, all of them! Many I could just pull the wire out of the crimp barrel.
If you suspect this, go get a good ratcheting crimper and a bunch of terminals and start replacing them all. Oh, and there is a hard one to find, if close to an 85, in the taped bundle of wires above the engine is a barrel crimp which has a ground line to several places, that one was also defective. John mlong9876 wrote: > Hi All, > > I just came back from the boat (beautiful 70 degree day in NY) and confirmed > that I am having problems with the engine instrument display. Problems were > most noticeable when I turned the blower on and off. Actually, the blower > turned itself on and off and the gauges jumped all around until the blower > didn't come back on and the instruments stayed fixed on their previous > readings, even after shutting it down. Every gauge is affected by the blower > switch even if the blower motor doesn't come on. I took a 2 min video with my > phone but don't know where to upload it. > > I also had difficulty starting it and saw white smoke when it turned over. > Finally, as I was motoring around, I noticed a constant vibration and was > wondering if that sounds like the shaft is not perfectly straight? > > Have any of you experienced some or all of what I've described? > > > > Thank you (as always), > > Michael > > PS What I'd like to hear is that white smoke is what I want to see and the > rest is all in my head and everything is fine. Second place would be telling > me that if I tighten one or 2 screws, everything will be prefect.
