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HOLY CRAP you wont believe it.
Is it possible for 3 things to go wrong at the same time ???? YES..
First off....Getting to the pump location requires dislocating my arm at the elbow and shoulder, and leaning over the motor well at such an angle and force that I split my stomach in half.
The old pump was definately seized.
SO....Thinking that everything worked fine up to this point this year...it should be a quick pump replacement. Cut a couple of wires, splice and seal the news one and good to go.....BUT NO...
1) Got a new pump, check it on the work bench at home all is good. Go to the boat for a 1-2 hour replacement. Replace the pump (pulling every muscle in my back). Try it with the dash switch, WILL NOT WORK. Check voltage- none at pump.
2)Get into the dash panel and find power is at the breaker, but not getting to the switch. (Bad Breaker) So I switched it with another in the dash that does'nt do anything. OK got it working now.
Put everything together, pour water in the bildge--works good. Figure I should fill it deeper to make the auto kicks on. It don't come on. pull out all the wires and harness I just neatly wrapped and zip tied in to get to the float swtich. Check out the switch and it checks OK...
3)Checking voltages at the harness, there is no power coming to the 2nd power lead (the one off the battery directly to the float switch). Try to follow that back to find where is loses connection -NO WAY- The hell with it I just cut it off and cap it. Then gotta go get some wire and run a new lead from the battery to the wire feeding the float switch. Electrically all is good finally 4-5 hours later. But the holes in the fiber holding down the float switch are opened up too large now and the screws wont hold it down tight.(I'll fix that later). Guess I'll just move the float a 1/4" and screw it down.
So
1) Siezed Pump
2) Failed Breaker
3) Bad feed wire
I could not believe all the crap went wrong at the same time.
Maybe one thing affected another and caused more damage, I dunno, but I do know working on boats is a pain, and you need two elbows per arm (or a third arm coming straight off your chest to work on em')
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