Mounted under the cowling ?
Posted: Sat Mar 19, 2005 3:05 pm
Service Monitor for $68.85 and mount it under the cowling.
Epoxy to Cowling ? How did you mount yours?
Epoxy to Cowling ? How did you mount yours?
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Help me celebrate!! I ordered my Mercury 60 BigFoot!!
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Posted: Sat Mar 19, 2005 4:10 pm
My dealer mounted it on a plastic baffle on the starboard side of the motor by drilling holes in it and using screws. He ran the wiring around the back and to the port side. There's a white ground wire and a red wire you wrap around a spark plug wire.
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Merc Bigfoot & UFLEX B184M update...
Posted: Sun Mar 20, 2005 1:53 pm
I found out some things for those owners who want to hook a Merc Bigfoot
up to a UFLEX B184M controller.
1) There IS enough throw-distance on the B184M to fully engage the
Merc... the B184M has a max 75mm movement for engaging the gears on the Merc. The Merc only needs 65 mm. So no worry about not engaging the gears completely.
2) The B184M will NOT fit completely into the 26
pedestal cabinet if you plan on connecting it to a Merc! The Merc control cables have an 6-8 inch barrel in which the control rods slides adjacent to the B184M rocker arm. Add the Controller length to the UFLEX2Merc adapter plus the Merc barrel and the total length is only 1 inch less than the full diagonal distance of the access panel...with no room for the cables to be bent in a loop to fit down the pedestal pipe.
The B184(M) kit bracket to adapt the B184 to Merc cables causes the control barrel to be shifted out about 4 inches.
The B184 WILL fit some of the other manufacturers cables...if the cables don't require an adapter, the cables can be connected directly to the rocker arms, which gives just enough room to loop the cables down the barrel.
I contacted several Mac dealers about the problem and they both stated
that with a Merc on the transom and using a UFLEX...they run the control cables down from the bottom of the pedestal (with a 1 1/2 inch hole drilled in the cabinet so the cables have a straight exit) and either lay them aft into the transom area...or loop them through a booted hole drilled into the elevated floor of the gas tank lockers.
I have decided to drill the hole, encase the cables in a wire loom cover, cable-clamped to the pedestal pipe, and run them through a boot into the aft compartment and then back out on the starboard side of the transom, since I originally purchased the Merc cables to be snaked down the pedestal and then out the transom. They are just too long to go straight aft to the transom.
up to a UFLEX B184M controller.
1) There IS enough throw-distance on the B184M to fully engage the
Merc... the B184M has a max 75mm movement for engaging the gears on the Merc. The Merc only needs 65 mm. So no worry about not engaging the gears completely.
2) The B184M will NOT fit completely into the 26
pedestal cabinet if you plan on connecting it to a Merc! The Merc control cables have an 6-8 inch barrel in which the control rods slides adjacent to the B184M rocker arm. Add the Controller length to the UFLEX2Merc adapter plus the Merc barrel and the total length is only 1 inch less than the full diagonal distance of the access panel...with no room for the cables to be bent in a loop to fit down the pedestal pipe.The B184(M) kit bracket to adapt the B184 to Merc cables causes the control barrel to be shifted out about 4 inches.
The B184 WILL fit some of the other manufacturers cables...if the cables don't require an adapter, the cables can be connected directly to the rocker arms, which gives just enough room to loop the cables down the barrel.
I contacted several Mac dealers about the problem and they both stated
that with a Merc on the transom and using a UFLEX...they run the control cables down from the bottom of the pedestal (with a 1 1/2 inch hole drilled in the cabinet so the cables have a straight exit) and either lay them aft into the transom area...or loop them through a booted hole drilled into the elevated floor of the gas tank lockers.
I have decided to drill the hole, encase the cables in a wire loom cover, cable-clamped to the pedestal pipe, and run them through a boot into the aft compartment and then back out on the starboard side of the transom, since I originally purchased the Merc cables to be snaked down the pedestal and then out the transom. They are just too long to go straight aft to the transom.