Excuse the ignorance, but what is this?!

[WYTige?]

Check the oil level with the boat floating level in the water.

Is there anyway to do this on the trailer or is there just too much cant to the engine. Also, would too much tranny fluid cause the same thing?

[WYTige?]

For what it's worth. Pulled the hose in front of the trans cooler and a big glob of orange fell into the bilge. Not sure what it was and after being stuck in that goofy locker for most the morning, I gave up trying to find it. I'll hopefully get it back on the water tomorrow.

[billwil]

You let the pumpkin out? Good luck with the power now...I heard that little guy is responsible for half the power of the engine.

[Travism]

The orange plug is likely why the alarm was going off. The manifolds, vdrive or transmission was probably overheating.

[WYTige?]

Man I sure hope. I'll be testing it tomorrow and report back.

[WYTige?]

Arghhhh!! Was out today and it did it again. Got it up to around 4800 rpms and the dang warning alarm sounded again. I shut it down restarted and tried to duplicate it. Temp was right aroun 170/175 but oil gauge seemed to be reading quite high but then again I don't know what normal is. It was reading right at about 65-70 and the gauge tops out at 80.

So I just pulled my little girls on the wake board and they surfed the wake for quite awhile and it did do it. Later we went on a joy ride and I didn't catch the rpm but it seemed the alarm went off at much lower rpm. Oil and temp gauges read about the same as before. What am I missing here?? Next step change the impeller??

[jslayde1]

You let the pumpkin out? Good luck with the power now...I heard that little guy is responsible for half the power of the engine.

Oh man, that is funny!! I'm pretty sure I actually laughed out loud!

[WYTige?]

Swapped out the impeller, not fun but done. Be on the lake tomorrow we'll see if that was the problem. Not really confidant.

[Stingreye]

May sound stupid (and since you haven't heard anything else) and I really haven't heard of it happening again to anyone else but I knew someone who had a battery going bad (bad cell) and low voltage triggered an alarm because the sensors get buggy (all electronics do) with low voltage. It was on an i/o and he related the problems to me later. Still can't believe it was just a bad battery. So if you acquired the boat and the battery is old, may be worth looking at.

I still don't get how the battery could cause the alarm to go off at high RPMs only but for whatever reason it did. Again, this is coming from not even a shade tree mechanic... I am the idiot in 130 degree heat under the sun

[WYTige?]

Hey, that's always something to consider. One battery is new this year and the other is only a year old. Nonetheless stranger things have happened. Next stop will probably be the mechanic.