Hoo rah! is right. Great job! I was so pleased that you were able to get those nylon plugs waterproof. You saved a great deal of money both materials and labor being able to reuse the housing. The Admiral should give you a... ahem... a promotion.. yeah, that's it, a promotion for saving so much of the fleet operations budget. Note that the the port engine has different but almost equal degree of difficulty with the gangway and waste tank in the way. One more helpful note: I had a problem develop where my port engine would cut out intermittently and increasingly during the season after long sessions of running fine, Narrowed it down to fuel starvation. First replaced the fuel pump relay because eventually it was occasionally having problems starting and in those instances I could not hear the low pressure fuel pump prime the CFM. (You really don't need to manually prime the filter housing.) Not solved. Replaced regulator,, not solved, then the low and high pressure fuel pumps with good after market (non OEM). Not solved. Good mechanics could not find the problem but we all figured it must be electrical connection problem. Figured then that I must have a bad connection somewhere in the harness. Tested the voltage going to the CFM and it was always good. Drove me crazy for two months. So one Saturday with the engine running I went wire by wire moving and bending them to see if the engine would die due to a fragmented wire in a casing. I couldn't cause the cut out. So I decided I would need to disconnect the electric feed to the CFM and work on it some more, I went to disconnect the two wire feed to the CFM, grabbed the two ends of the plug and it burned my fingertips... It looked perfectly well on the outside and also on the inside when looked into it. But hidden inside and behind the female end of the red wire connection there was corrosion. Apparently during engine runs, resistance would build up, heat the connection and the connection would not send enough voltage to the fuel pumps causing them to surge and die. I bypassed the red wire through a new simple waterproof plug and problem was solved. So... should you ever have a surge and die problem check that plug that you now have disconnected and connected a few times recently. It is in a good location to get wet from various fluids, coolant, raw water if the water pump is starting to go, etc. Looking forward to seeing your post-Ian sea trial. I saw that the big blue hull boat in your neighborhood has been rescued. Things must be getting better round your area. A good place for some of your repair videos would be at the Meridian Owners Forum. Have a great weekend. Scott

I am very impressed with your attitude of diving in to fix issues!! You learn your systems AND save a ton of money!! Good on ya, mate!! Your follower from Naples❤

Great job! Always hard maneuvering tight spaces around engines. You can definitely moonlight as boat mechanic.

Great job!! It pays to be methodical..came out beautifully! Cheers

Hopefully that did the trick! Can't wait for the Sea Trial and praying you have no major issues!!

Congrats….great work!!

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Nice work, just found your channel, trying to catch up on the adventure.

Great Video, I really liked it. We work on cool fuel modules, and if you would ever like a sponsorship on parts, we would be glad to help. Filters, top caps, injectors or any of the fuel related components!

Nice job salvaging that CFM3. While you’re down there check for paint flakes on the regulator screen.

i think you saved yourself $1000 in labor on that job

B: Tom… Did you get any workouts or other exercise in today? T: Yeah… I did boat yoga routines every day this week. 😂🤣 Seriously tho, Good job man. 👍🏼😎

Very neat but it works the opposite way.....the second port where the arrow is is under a vacuum, the venturi effect so a vacuum is created which pulls water in through the first port. Enjoying your series on the Ian damage and boat recovery.

Nice job !

This will help someone curse and yell their pump in too but at least they’ll know it’l work out!

Surprised no clamps on those lines.

Did you recover that 10mm wrench 5:56, or is it permanent ballast in the bilge? I have around 20 lbs in mine.

Swell job and great camera work. how do you do it; pencil cam or some kind of GoPro or? Your hands are on the work so who holds cam. Those squash clamps cost about 6 cents; screw types probably 30 that's why the factory uses them. Did you Oorah or Hooah.

Hi Happy Ours. I did not see any hose clamps / clips on the inlet or outlet of the water pipes on the new module. Regards. David in Oz.

Not to be picky, but why would you have the red key fob on the starboard engine and the green one on the port engine?

What is the part number or what is the hose called in the first of the video

Yeah

Big block Chevys?

I wouldn't rust that fuel module as far as I could throw it.

that housing is old and should be updated to the new one and mercury pays for the the top cover kit and 8 new injectors go talk to a marina that's mercury certified.

Where can i get this part and whts this part name or number

you are going to regret not changing that unit out the corrosion will only get worse once that aluminum starts to corrode there is no end worse than steel

Boat=bust out another thousand?