yankee
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Sea Pro model and year: 1999 SV1900CC
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Post by yankee on May 28, 2022 17:02:36 GMT -6
I'm working on a 99' V1900CC and some how the cable going from my bow mounted trolling motor to the console has become snagged underneath the deck. I'm pretty sure that it is hung between a stringer and the underside of the deck from me lightly tugging on the cable to get some slack. I've clamped a closed eye onto a fiberglas rod and closed the eye around the cable and tried pushing from the front storage but am unable to get it loose. I pushed a camera through there but I can't tell what I'm looking at. I'm thinking of cutting an access hole underneath the cooler seat in front of the console, but I really don't want to do that. I remember fishing this cable underneath the deck when I got my trolling motor and it took nearly a week and only went through by luck. I reallly don't think that I can fish another cable through. The access hole would give me access to the opening inside the console where all the wiring runs under and halfway up to the front starboard storage. If I cut the deck inside the console, it would have to be all the way to the back and I don't think that it would do any good as I would not be able to reach anything.
If any of you have some idea's I sure would appreciate it. I'm willing to try anything to avoid cutting the deck.
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Post by Juan on May 28, 2022 17:19:36 GMT -6
You have my sympathies! I ran into a similar problem on my Scout skiff but I got lucky and after a lot of patience, blood, sweat and cutting a bunch of floatation foam I was able to thread a new cable through so I don't have a good solution. I'd probably tie a new wire or a fish tape to the end of the existing wires and pull like hell until something gave and if it broke or came loose I'd try to fish a new cable through before I did any cutting.
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yankee
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Sea Pro model and year: 1999 SV1900CC
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Post by yankee on May 29, 2022 7:24:04 GMT -6
Yea, that's kinda of my thought also. I'm going to get a good light and an inspection mirror inside the storage and see if I can see what is actually going on. I can get my head inside the opening enough to see back underneath about 8 - 10"'s. I'd love to get a 3' piece of PVC under there for a raceway to run wire/cable through. I just don't know how the stringers are arranged around the console. I think that I seen some pictures somewhere where the stringer around the front edge of the console is knotched a bit to create an opening under the console? It would be great to have some sort of schematic of this.
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yankee
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Sea Pro model and year: 1999 SV1900CC
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Post by yankee on May 29, 2022 10:21:12 GMT -6
I got a picture of the wedged cable. I ended up using a ball joint seperator and wedging it between the deck and stringer. Tapped it in until the deck came up enough to loosen the cable. Much better than cutting holes. Thanks everyone
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yankee
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Posts: 222
Sea Pro model and year: 1999 SV1900CC
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Post by yankee on May 29, 2022 10:27:06 GMT -6
Just sitting here thinking. I'm going to cut a 1/8" wide slit the length of a 30" piece of 3/4 pvc pipe. I would be able to force the cable through the slit then tape the pvc real good and slide it up toward the console to prevent this from happening again?
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May 29, 2022 12:27:52 GMT -6
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Post by Juan on May 29, 2022 12:27:52 GMT -6
Not sure I understand cutting a 30" 1/8" slit but the ball joint separator idea was genius!
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yankee
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Posts: 222
Sea Pro model and year: 1999 SV1900CC
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Post by yankee on May 30, 2022 8:14:07 GMT -6
The head of the cable is too big to slide through a 3/4 pipe and a 1" pipe is too big to slide underneath the deck. By cutting the slit I could slip the cable inside the pipe because I cannot detatch the head from the cable.
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Post by Juan on May 30, 2022 9:39:33 GMT -6
I think I understand now. You're talking about cutting the slit into the pipe and not the deck right?
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yankee
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Sea Pro model and year: 1999 SV1900CC
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Post by yankee on May 30, 2022 11:08:41 GMT -6
Yep. I'm going to use the pipe as a raceway for the cable so it doesn't get wedged under the deck again. The only way I can get the cable inside the pipe is to cut a slit in the pipe and press the cable inside the pipe behind the large screw-in type plug that is on the end of the cable. I have enough room inside the front storage to get a 30" piece of pipe inside and then push it back toward the console right along the stringer that the cable was hung up on. The pipe will keep the cable from getting wedged back on top of the stringer if the cable ever gets pulled again.
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May 30, 2022 14:42:54 GMT -6
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Post by Juan on May 30, 2022 14:42:54 GMT -6
Sounds like a workable plan. Conduit makes running wires a lot easier (usually) and it should be in every boat. My Scout has 2" conduit run from the stern to the bow but some dummy filled it with floatation foam and it took a lot of work to get it out when I ran new trolling motor wires. Ain't working on boats fun!
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Post by freezerfiller on May 30, 2022 15:34:37 GMT -6
It's pretty easy when the boat is in halves. It's a pain once it is sandwiched together and sold....
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yankee
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Sea Pro model and year: 1999 SV1900CC
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Post by yankee on May 31, 2022 6:43:05 GMT -6
Working on this boat keeps my body limber. My wife looks out the window and can only see my feet sticking above the railing.
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yankee
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Sea Pro model and year: 1999 SV1900CC
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Post by yankee on May 31, 2022 12:19:28 GMT -6
Here is the finished product. Not much to look at, but I think it is a workable solution. Cut the pipe with a palm router and instead of taping the cut closed, I clamped the two ends and the middle to close it up and keep the cable from coming out.
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May 31, 2022 12:44:55 GMT -6
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Post by Juan on May 31, 2022 12:44:55 GMT -6
Necessity is the mother of invention. Good thing no one will see that slit. Lol
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yankee
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Sea Pro model and year: 1999 SV1900CC
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Post by yankee on Jun 1, 2022 18:16:54 GMT -6
I think this is going to do what I had intended. The 3/4 pipe slid back under the deck clear to the console area without any problems. This all started when I pulled the extension plug from the motor end up into the anchor well to disconnect it so that I could remove the trolling motor. I guess when I tugged on the line to get the plug into the well, the cable became wedged under the stringer. I didn't think too much about it until I went back out to the lake and I had no slack in the Hummingbird wiring to plug the head unit in and secure it in its mounting bracket. Anyways, I think the pipe will keep the cable from hanging up again if I ever tug on it again???
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