jbruns2015
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Have a 1987 Celebrity 180 Bow Rider with 5.0 Liter 305 V8 engine with Thunderbolt ignition. The engine will run for a couple of minutes then blow the 20A ignition circuit and stall out.
Replace the fuse, run a couple of minutes, circuit blows, engine dies. Rinse and repeat.
Bypassed fuse block as other circuit terminals are bad and will be replacing the fuse block with ATO type fuse block and redoing all of that but I currently have the ignition wire directly wired to power source that powers the fuse block with inline 20A ATO type fuse harness, so the cause of the overload is not the fuse block, unless there is a reverse power surge coming from the power source to the fuse block back over the ignition circuit. Not likely if you read next line.
When I had a failure a week ago on the water, I heard a click/bang in the engine compartment, then the ignition fuse was blown.
Something has to be wrong in the rear of the boat.
Anyone have any clues what might be the cause of the ignition circuit drawing more than 20 amps, killing the circuit and stalling out?
Replace the fuse, run a couple of minutes, circuit blows, engine dies. Rinse and repeat.
Bypassed fuse block as other circuit terminals are bad and will be replacing the fuse block with ATO type fuse block and redoing all of that but I currently have the ignition wire directly wired to power source that powers the fuse block with inline 20A ATO type fuse harness, so the cause of the overload is not the fuse block, unless there is a reverse power surge coming from the power source to the fuse block back over the ignition circuit. Not likely if you read next line.
When I had a failure a week ago on the water, I heard a click/bang in the engine compartment, then the ignition fuse was blown.
Something has to be wrong in the rear of the boat.
Anyone have any clues what might be the cause of the ignition circuit drawing more than 20 amps, killing the circuit and stalling out?
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