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Jim Schaefer

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Gauges went dead
« on: June 29, 2010, 15:03:53 pm »
Driving home one night with the Nav lights on and all gauges went dead. The Gauge lights still worked but the needles were all pegged at zero. I'm sure it's a short but has anyone had this problem and know where to start?

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Re: Gauges went dead
« Reply #1 on: June 29, 2010, 18:27:35 pm »
i think we all have had this problem. lol! go to maintenance section for gauges schematic to do some tests. if you got lights then you go power but you lost signal to them. yellow wire i think. what model boat?

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Re: Gauges went dead
« Reply #2 on: June 29, 2010, 18:47:21 pm »
I dont know if this is your problem or not, but its a start.  I was having intermittent gauge problems the weekend before last.  My issue was a loose connection on the computer under the dash, I think it is the DECC or something like that.  if you look the front wall  under the dash you should see a box mounted to the wall, there are a bunch of screw in connectors and two studs, one stud is the negative and the other is positive for the computer.  Check the positive and negative studs to make sure they are tight.  On my boat, I actually had to remove the wire ring from the stud and add an extra nut as a spaced because the ring termial was mashed inside the plastic housing and the retaining nut would not tighten down allowing the wire to intermitently loose contact.  

Im not sure if that make since or not, if I remember when I get home tonight Ill take a picture of what I am talking about.

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Re: Gauges went dead
« Reply #3 on: June 30, 2010, 04:03:45 am »
This happens to me every time the battery gets low...I just disconnect and reconnect the possitive battery terminal and presto everything works again!
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Re: Gauges went dead
« Reply #4 on: July 05, 2010, 20:00:07 pm »
I was just looking for this exact issue on my X22, 1999.  I had a loose + battery terminal last week and just tapped it down to fix it.  i will be adding a new bolt for the battery terminal and that conductive, anti corrosion goop you see on new car batteries.  I will post the fix next Monday if that isn't the only issue.

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Re: Gauges went dead
« Reply #5 on: July 07, 2010, 00:18:11 am »
Okay boys I have been reading all these posts about guages. I have a 99, X22 that I just bought 275 hrs and the temp Guage pegges out at 240 as soon as I fire up the boat. All other guages seem to work just fine. I have tried all the fixes that were suggested. Ran a new ground wire. Swapped harness from one guage to another to make sure the harness is not bad. Nothing works ???.. Other than this little issue I love the boat!!

HELP!

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Re: Gauges went dead
« Reply #6 on: July 07, 2010, 06:55:56 am »
did you test the gauge? sounds like its bad or temp sender.

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Re: Gauges went dead
« Reply #7 on: July 07, 2010, 18:09:39 pm »
I will try the temp sender and see if that works.. Is there some place on here that shows the location of the temp sending unit? And part number?

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Re: Gauges went dead
« Reply #8 on: July 07, 2010, 20:41:17 pm »