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New toy/project 1998 Sea Ray Seville


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i just went back and looked at the pics of the boat. look for screws @ the front of the gauge cluster, and even maybe a piano hinge in the back, most of the time those dashboards flip up or open up so you can get to the wires, the steering box could be a ton easier to get to with the dash up, vs laying on your back and feeling your way around. boat dashboards suck a big one, very tight under there.


if you haven't found the fuse block yet, it may be under there, most of the time they are rusted to hell.
 


fuses are under controls. Easy to get at and yes..a little surface correded, not rusty etc like I'd expect though. All the electronics seem to work. Except I'm getting a click from a relay/soleniod for the tilt motor. With the info I d/l'd on the motor, I think there's a relief rod etc so you can lift it and get to the motor. Then I'll find it's power source and start the testing.

If I didn't have a pile of other projects ongoing, this floor would already be all set and I'd be all over this other stuff. Instead I'm playing with this stuff before investing into the floor.
 
clicking sounds could be a bad ground somewhere. just like a car, but way more common with boats. grounds are the hardest thing to keep working for sure.

boats and electrical, yeah that's a recipe for disaster..... for 10 years that i owned my 24 footer, i bought it new, every spring i ahd to take everything off the ground post under my dash and sand every last eye loop and the post its self, or stuff would just start to stop working, one by one.

radio and or the gps cutting on and off was the first thing to go for me. but did have bad connections by the battery selector switch to the pump for my out drive trim motor, same as the lift motor.


Oh and Bill i dont know how much driving a boat experience you have, but once you figure out how that trim button works, oh boy are you going to have fun lol

i know you have the ear for it. its amazing how you lift the engine as your speeding off and you feel the boat lifting up, and just keep on picking up speed. only thing with a out board engine is you can lift it to much and not get any more water in the engine, its a learning curve. if you dont see water streaming out the back of the engine lower it fast lol and dont red line the engine, lifting it makes the rpm's free up a lot.

so we are clear here, lift the engine up and the front of the boat lifts up, lower the engine the nose gets planted into the water.

nose up is always faster, but depends on the waves your hitting if its a smooth ride or not. choppy water, keep the nose lower into the waves, and hit the waves at a angle, not head on.


and being air born is always fun too, i had a 4,000 lb boat fully out of the water on to many occasions lol
 
I've spent some time on boats, particularly the entire summer I was laid off and my buddy Mechanic Dan had also gotten let go. We worked on cars out of his garage at night to pay the bills (which led to his own shop and business) and we'd go boating 4 or so times a week. He had a 17foot galaxy open bow. Same basic thing that I have except his was IB/OB instead of just OB. When he turned the first couple times into wakes of larger craft, I asked the questions and got the basics.

I was just talking with him and he said.. "I gotta teach you a lot, you'll have a blast". No worries there, I'll get the hang of it, after all there's a throttle, steering wheel and obstacles etc.
 
the trim button is where all the fun is tho.

and sling shoting tubers lol when the tube is passing the boat, you know you did it right lmao!
 


theres a guy with a like 30 footer or better pontoon house boat here in the Hudson river, he takes it up the river and lets it drift back to the dock over and over, he has a slide and a diving board off the roof of it. its at least 15 feet to the water line.


thing is with this river, is it has a 5 to 10 mph current, ( and it flows both ways, with the tides) so if your drifting with your boat, you can swim with it, if its anchored your gone lol unless you have a rope to hold on to, and then while at the end of the rope, your doing super man, the water just pulls you horizontal.

i need a new boat, all this talk makes me want to get on the water again.

and swimming in the Hudson river is quit normal around here lol used to hit croton point every weekend, with a 100 other boats. everyone swims.

just dont get any water in your mouth lol
 
yeah thats what it would be for sure..

that boat was so much fun for 10 years. it went out every weekend, sat and sunday. sat was the fishing day, sunday was for corton point, drinking beer and hanging out.

ill need to dig up the pics of the 2 foot flounder i've caught. and yes we used to catch them quit often. i got about 4 or 5 of them, off my boat we caught around 12 or so in total.


and a 2 foot flounder puts up one hell of a fight too i may add. you'l think its a blue fish at first, till you feel that tell tale twitch they do.

and no fish tastes better than caught today and cooked that night, ever!

salt water rules!
 
Kinda surprised a boat that small didnt just have simple cable steering we have an older checkmate that will do 70 mph and its just cables for steering
 
Hey... when I looked up that year Seville... it was clear that Sea Ray wanted you to have some of the nicer things in life. Any ideas on part numbers Taz? You seem to have a little boat experience...lol
 


On the truck yeah. Even caused a couple extra holes in the brake lines. Got the front lines done. Need to do the rears and then bleed the whole thing. Need the truck to pull the boat off the back wall of the garage to work on it better. The fill thing is right on top of the wheel though. I've seen it.
 
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