For the TM plug up front, try to access it from the port nav light. If you can’t get your hand in there, find a skinny friend. Might be able to push it out.
KeyWest 1720cc 90 Ymha
www.FishCFA.org
hi_c, My wife was the one who helped me mount the TM bracket via the port bow light, but she could not free the wire. I think some Mon. morning or Fri. afternoon slack-azz sprayed expanding foam around the wiring conduit when the boat was built because when I really put some muscle into it while pulling on the plug, it came loose at the connectors and there is expanding foam on the wires that did come out. I spoke with someone at KW who said the wire should not be secured, but it was. Now I’ve got to figure out another way to get a wire from the TM plug to the console.
Loosewire,
I installed two deep cycle batteries in the console and on my 96 1720. I was able to install (run) new wires from the console to the front of the boat to the trolling motor plug. If your boat is like mine, under the console I have a boot that covers the hole in the deck where the shift cables, steering cable etc run to the back of the boat. If you remove that boot and look forward and starboard there is a conduit that runs up to the 4 inch round access panel on the starboard side of the boat. I was able to feed a wire snake down the conduit and up into the console, and then pulled the new cables up and out of the access panel. Then I removed the starboard and port nav lights. I then fished the wire snake from the access hole to the starboard nav light, and pulled back a pull line and then pulled the cables up and out of the starboard nav light, I then fished them over to the port nav light and from there fished the snake from the trolling motor plug hole to the port nav light and pulled the cables out of the trolling motor hole and attached the new plug. I was good to go with a 24 volt system. The factory installed trolling motor cables in my 1720 were not tinned and were corroded, so I decided to install new ones
Anyway, if your boat is close to a 1996 1720, you probably have the same conduit running up to the starboard round access panel
Pursuitgang (RealTime)
2486 Triton w/twin Suzuki DF140s (RealTime)
1720 KeyWest 90 Johnson
Pursuitgang…thanks for the information. That sounds like the best plan so far. I found that conduit you are talking about when I was looking for the factory-installed TM wiring. My only problem is they completely filled the gunwales with spray-in foam, so I hope I can get the wire snake through that stuff and to the inspection cover. From there I feel I can use a threaded rod to ream out a hole in the foam and get the wires to the bow.