Hey Rinker i redesigned your dash hnt hint hint. You may want to consider these ideas.

canaan

Hey @diggin2day1 - Love your upgraded dash.  Do you happen to have "before" pics?  Just curious how many gauges you eliminated with that VesselView.  Now that I got my new sweet steps in, I'm looking for a new project!

diggin2day1

canaan said:

Hey @diggin2day1 - Love your upgraded dash.  Do you happen to have "before" pics?  Just curious how many gauges you eliminated with that VesselView.  Now that I got my new sweet steps in, I'm looking for a new project!

Thanks Canaan... here you go:

canaan

Wow.  I wish you lived nearby...I'd pay some coin to have somebody do this to my 342 helm.

diggin2day1

canaan said:

Wow.  I wish you lived nearby...I'd pay some coin to have somebody do this to my 342 helm.

That was a fun/tedious winter project!!!

DanD2

I wish they made a vessel view product for Volvo

dwmackenzie

Hey David, love this. Re: the glove box, I see that for sale on GLS but in plain white starboard. How did you get the wood grain finish?

davidbrooks

@dwmackenzie I just wrapped it with a vinyl wrap.  Same as the dash.  Then sprayed it with a satin clear poly to give it a little shine.

YYZRC

diggin2day1 said:

No need for new/digital senders.... I called mercruiser and spoke with Kim. This is the information he gave me and it worked like a charm:

Fuel:
3-pin Fuel tank Harness- part# 84-864218 

Huge 10 pin harness from helm, follow to the T section where branches off... (3 pin plug/2 wires labeled "fuel level" (A-blk/pink tracer ..... B-light blue/blk tracer) unplug current sender and plug in new harness

Trim: 

Digital trim- orange/white (bullet plug)..... Analog (orange/light blue)... Unplug analog and plug in digital. 

@diggin2day1 I have the 84-864218 harness has ring connectors on one end and I assumed they attach to the fuel sender at the tank and the connector attached to the SmartCraft harness at the helm.  I'm very confused now!

This is the harness I bought:



Thanks!

LaRea

That's the right part.  It attaches to a plug on top of the engine, not at the helm.  The engine's computer digitizes the signal and sends it out over the SmartCraft network.

YYZRC

Thanks LaRea!  So the ring terminals are in fact going to the senders on the fuel tanks?

And I assume I should connect this to the starboard engine since that is primary?

Another question - not sure where the fuel level senders are on a 330/340; any reason why I can't just tap into the harness somewhere between the sender and the helm?

LaRea

Yup, the ring terminals go to the sender.  But I vaguely remember, maybe my senders had potted wires instead of screw terminals, so I had to cut and splice the wires.  In theory, you could do that anywhere in the circuit, if you can find the wires.

LaRea

But you should make the connection as close as possible to the sender.  

YYZRC

I've looked everywhere and cannot find the fuel connector - any tips?

YYZRC

diggin2day1 said:

heres a few pictures of the plug where the new fuel harness wires plug in:

The top pic shows a connector port that is unused, do I remove the connector from that port and connect it into the new fuel sender harness?  That looks like the distributor to me...

Thanks!

Ian

Mine are top of engine, what color wires?

YYZRC

Ok, I'm not crazy.  Merc says I need harness 8M0075945.  Will order it and report back.

YYZRC

LaRea said:

Yup, the ring terminals go to the sender.  But I vaguely remember, maybe my senders had potted wires instead of screw terminals, so I had to cut and splice the wires.  In theory, you could do that anywhere in the circuit, if you can find the wires.

I briefly looked around and couldn't locate the sender wires from the tanks.  Any tips?

MissLee2005

diggin2day1 said:

My redesigned FV270 dash with VesselView 4:

Looks awesome mate....am in the process of refurbishing the same...what’s the gadget on the left? And what connects to engine so you can monitor revs, temp etc....I have a Volvo diesel 

MissLee2005

Am aiming for this...wrapped Cfibre👍

tazdevil

i would like to know how you made the pedestal for the vessel view

Dream_Inn

tazdevil said:

i would like to know how you made the pedestal for the vessel view

I remember there was a whole topic that @diggin2day1 did on this.  He manufactured it himself.  Maybe he can post the link to it (I can't seem to find it).

@MissLee2005 the gadget on the left is vesselview.  It has all the gauges digitally.

diggin2day1

Hi Guys... here’s the thread about how I built the vesselview mount: https://rinkerboats.vanillacommunities.com/discussion/4600/winter-upgrades/p1

skuter99

If you add this new wire harness to the sender for digital fuel read out, can you also leave the existing wire attached at the sender so the analog gage still works as well??

Dream_Inn

skuter99 said:

If you add this new wire harness to the sender for digital fuel read out, can you also leave the existing wire attached at the sender so the analog gage still works as well??

I believe @LaRea has said you cannot.  

LaRea

Right, you'd have to build a custom circuit to do it.  

goalie59

When I hooked up my smart craft to my Raymarine I thought of hooking up the fuel senders but the cheap analog senders are not accurate and after looking at what it was going to cost to replace the senders with quality ones I opted out. Every time I fill my tanks I enter 160 gallons into my fuel settings and let the smart craft take over. The only thing I have to remember is that my genny pulls from the port tank and the smart craft does not compute that consumsion. I love the system it really shows how one engine can be so different from the other

LaRea

That'll work, but it's preferable to keep humans out of the data chain.  We make mistakes now and then.  

Dream_Inn

@goalie59 I do the same thing.  I've thought about changing the cables several times but never wanted to lose the analog gauges (really just having them still in my dash not work).  Resetting it with full tanks work pretty well.

DarkHawk

diggin2day1 said:

Hi Guys... here’s the thread about how I built the vesselview mount: https://rinkerboats.vanillacommunities.com/discussion/4600/winter-upgrades/p1

Nice post. I'm not handy with fiberglass but I may have to try this after looking over you post. Thanks again. 

MojosBoat

Looks great! May be a future project for our boat. Hate the factory gauges.