Eric, I found the following photo. I had cut the original capacitor from the wiring bundle, installed a wiring junction block, and new capacitor. The reason I did this is because the capacitor

Hi Nick; We made a fill plug by drilling a hole in the center of an all thread the same size as the drain plug. We just attach a clear hose with the same ID as the OD of the all thread and attach

Eric, The fuse and the capacitor should be spliced in series to the load wire which should be brown. The blue wire is return (neutral). Green/yellow is earth. I am not sure where the black wire goes,

We are just getting ready to head south from NY to the Caribe (BURRR) and that is one thing that is holding us up. Fair Winds, Eric SM 376 Kimberlite

Thanks Tom, I kind of figured that out the red wire, I just don't know what the black wire connect to. Possibly someone with a hull number closer to mine knows how the black wire connects. Fair

Hey Eric- just changed my blower so this is still fresh. The line ahead of the transfer box is energized by the genset running (on SM 422). The hot line goes fuse, capacitor, then fan. I'm not sure

Nick, I filled mine from the top, with the drain open, then used a dinghy pump to pressurise the reservoir until clean oil came out the drain. I did need a few periodical top-ups but never had any

Don’t know if it will help. Have you tried rotating prop by hand to get the shaft and gears turning? It may move the oil a bit. Ian Ocean Hobo

Hi Matt, That does make sense but this is not the first time I have changed the oil. I did it when I bought the boat in June 2017 in Grenada WI. As I remember, I just drained it and filled the

Oops, I just noticed that my iPhone changed a word. Correction: I RINSED my job blocks ( the large ones that lead to the winch) in warm water. Kent Kristy SM 243 You receive all messages sent to this

I may be speaking from ignorance, but many lower units require removing the vent plug, and filling via a squeeze bottle from the drain plug, until oil seeps out the vent, installing the vent plug, an

I recently hauled out and decided to drain the gear oil from the Bowthruster, the oil was good and not cloudy but after two years needed changing. Then after replacing the oil drain screw filled up

It may be that they do not recommend AGM anymore. All 55s have Mastervolt gel batteries. Mine are fine after 4 seasons (never below 60%). I met another Amel 55 from 2011 still with the original

John Completely agree. I am tempted by the lithium ion technology but our 2 year old AGMs rate at 98% on the load tests after 2 years of living on the biat Again never below 80%. We have 1000watts

Hi, My genset fan fell of the overhead in the engine room disconnecting some wires. the fan has 4 wires blue, brown, green/yellow, and black. The green/yellow and the blue are still connected but the

I think I am going to second what Joel just said. Annie has a good quality set of AGM lead-acid batteries. They were installed in 2012 and are still working fine. The previous owners, who purchased

Hi Andrew, no pity...you are on the boat and I am at work ;) As to the alternator questions On the TMD22 there are two alternators...one is 12V for the engine and starter battery, the other is

Ha, I love reading Joel's posts....and to join the choir, Annie SM 37 (1990) also sports the same "cracks" at the bow. Previous owner who purchased her in 2002 reported that the cracks were present

Hi Duane, I am replacing the cars on Annie, currently awaiting shipment from EuroMarine Trading. My original cars and sheaves were a little coarse but opening them up and cleaning them eliminated

I have an invoice from when I replaced the batteries on my Amel 54 and I am sure I replaced them with what Amel recommended at the time. The size was Group 31. There are big but sometimes small hard