I have had a gremlin for a while, but today it got much worse.
The alarm in question is the blaring loud one, loud 1 or more second beep, without stopping, until suddenly it does.
It never happens on the way out, I spent an hour or two out there today where we were hitting various spots, it didn't make any sound until the last time I went to start the motor.. instant alarm, went away, but came back when put in to gear. This time it stayed for a while, long enough to get VVM loaded and connected, no faults!
Pulling it back to idle it stopped, put it in gear, back it comes, VVM connected the entire time not showing even one fault (usually it shows one about the gas sender, it has done this from day 1, I was told to ignore it.)
Anyway, I checked drive oil level, it was half way between full and add. I haven't added oil to that in months.
It's a 383 freshwater cooled merc, all sensors seemed to be reading fine, but I guess vessel view mobile doesn't show the drive oil res. one?
Going to dig down into it tomorrow AM, hoping it's just something with the drive oil res sensor.. does anyone know how to eliminate that from the system to test out to see if the alarm still sounds?
Thank you for your help!
The alarm in question is the blaring loud one, loud 1 or more second beep, without stopping, until suddenly it does.
It never happens on the way out, I spent an hour or two out there today where we were hitting various spots, it didn't make any sound until the last time I went to start the motor.. instant alarm, went away, but came back when put in to gear. This time it stayed for a while, long enough to get VVM loaded and connected, no faults!
Pulling it back to idle it stopped, put it in gear, back it comes, VVM connected the entire time not showing even one fault (usually it shows one about the gas sender, it has done this from day 1, I was told to ignore it.)
Anyway, I checked drive oil level, it was half way between full and add. I haven't added oil to that in months.
It's a 383 freshwater cooled merc, all sensors seemed to be reading fine, but I guess vessel view mobile doesn't show the drive oil res. one?
Going to dig down into it tomorrow AM, hoping it's just something with the drive oil res sensor.. does anyone know how to eliminate that from the system to test out to see if the alarm still sounds?
Thank you for your help!