Hi Steve,
Welcome Back. If you scroll back through the posts you find lots of
my electrical questions.
Basically, I think I see how to hook up the starting battery, but
since the new motor has only an alternator and not the dynastart that
the volvo had, i don't know what to do with the house circuit.
Do you have any ideas on using the alternator to charge both
batteries, without major re-wiring? Also, is the old regulator needed
at all? Also...there some wires from the old control panel, I think
they were for controlling the running lights that won't be there once
the new Beta control panel is installed. What do you do with them.
My immediate goal is to get the engine running, and have my auto bilgr
pump operational, and if I have major re-wiring to do I'd l;ike to do
that after I'm back in the water.
Do you have any pictures of what you use to align the engine?
I thought I had this perfectly done with just the one bolt in the
flexible coupling. (I had aligned the shaft with the shaft on the
engine without the coupling installed, then installed the coupling
with one bolt for the finer alignment) then when I installed all of
the bolts into the flexible coupling it almost seemed that the extra
weight on the prop shaft caused it to be out of alignment vertically.
I had to lift up on the coupling to aligh the holes. That doesn't
seem right.
One more question, I installed the Volvo Stern gland. It seemed a
little too big, although I was able to tighten it down with two hose
clamps. Is that how it is supposed to be? No chance that I got the
wrong size?
