PROBLEM SOLVED, How many of you Mechanic's would know about this

[echo0449]

For those of you who have read this, I have taken it to a boat repair shop and after many hours of them putting it in and out of the water the problem here was and electrical issue, YES and you would not believe what had to be done to fix it, On the Chap 205 behine the engine there is a elect plug that has to be plugged in to the engine block, Not sure what they call it exactly but to get at it the whole back portion of the transom engine had to be remove to reach this plug. Now remember I just bought this boat used with 109 hours on it. The dealer is who found this problem after many checks and rechecks. They guy who sold the boat to me was a private seller who sold it thru this marina that sold it to me. The mechanic knows for sure that this plug by the looks of it was NEVER WAS PLUGGED IN thus this problem has been ongoing since it was NEW in 2002, The previous owner only ran the boat at 2000 rpms for the hesitating does not occur until you hit 2500 to 3000 rpms. He must have known this and just used it for pleasure crusing at 20 to 30 miles /hr just so it would not hesitate which I could have done also, but I wanted the speed and took it to the limit. By doing this we where able to notice it did have a big problem at 3000 rpms stahling all the time. Even the mechanic had to take it out 6 times before he found this problem by dropping the whole back portion of the engine. It NOW Screams , Guess the guy who got rid of it was probably wanting something faster and did not want to spend the time or money to have it fixed when it was a FACTORY ERROR that was the cause all along. I hope you Chap Mechanic's out there take a note of this and if anyone of you have or had this problem before, the factory should know about it. I love Chap's but this took me down a notch or two. Waiting for all you people to talk up about this, for its know that the Chap is a pride and Joy to own.
Waiting for your answers and see if others have had the same problem, or that mechanic's for the Chap know about this ??????>

 

[achris]

Re: PROBLEM SOLVED, How many of you Mechanic's would know about this

Duplicate post.....

This is the original : http://forums.iboats.com/showthread.php?t=273358

 

[newport dave]

Re: PROBLEM SOLVED, How many of you Mechanic's would know about this

You can't really ask us if we know about "this" if you don't actually tell us what "this" is.

 

[DJ]

Re: PROBLEM SOLVED, How many of you Mechanic's would know about this

I think it was/is a knock sensor.

 

[Capt Ken]

Re: PROBLEM SOLVED, How many of you Mechanic's would know about this

Knock sensor is on the starboard side just above the starter, not on the rear. I don't know of anything that plugs into the block on the rear of the 4.3 engine and I just had two out on the test stands last month. Now I have had problems with EFI engines with bad grounds on the ground terminals located on the rear of the engine starboard side.

 

[Don S]

Re: PROBLEM SOLVED, How many of you Mechanic's would know about this

Just because it happened on your boat, doesn't mean that manufacturer has an employee that goes around and loosens that connection on every boat before all the stuff is built around it.
Stuff happens, in those minimum wage jobs at the assembly plant.
Any tech worth his salt would have found a loose connection. It's one of the first things you check for. No matter how hard those connections are to get at to check.