#Mercury smartcraft installation how to#
#Mercury smartcraft installation install#
#Mercury smartcraft installation upgrade#

I'm glad the info I posted was of use to you.ДЇirst you need to know what came in the kit, I believe that it wass just the monitor, 1 harness for the monitor and an air temp probe. you can also see the 'system link' cable dangling to the left (two pin connector) for use to connect future link gauges. ( you can see the one yellow terminator resistor, two purple weather caps, the top two left hand are the tack and speedo connectors, and the lower right is the harness to the back junction box. Here is the front one (under the dash), went with a 6 way box incase I wanted to add more later. Here is a pick of the rear junction box area (note the yellow 'cap' you see is a terminator resistor, just under that is a purple weather cap) You will also need to plug all open connectors (on junction boxes) with weather caps, the amount that come in the kits should suffice.Д§9-879899K07 Grey face, black bezel tach and speedo kit, comes with tach and speedo harness, air temp sensor, one junction box, and I think one or two weather capsДЁ79968T6 6' harness, I used it to go from the engine to rear junction boxДЁ79968T15 15' harness to go from rear junction box to front junction boxДЁ78492K16 6 way junction box with 3 weather capsДЁ59743T03 Oil, fuel and paddle wheel harness If you are only doing a system monitor, you can have no junction boxes and buy a cable that has a resistor built in to each end (p/n 879982TX, X= length). 879981T20 would be a 20ft cable) and then one termination resistor in the box up front. if you have two junction boxes, you will need to have a resistor in each of them, if you have one junction box (up front for tach and speedo kit) you can buy a cable that has one resistor built in at the engine side (p/n 879981TX, X= the length ie. One thing to know is that there needs to be two resistors in the system (at each end of the 'CAN BUS TRUNK').

I thought I wanted a junction box at the back of the boat because I thought the fuel oil paddle wheel harness connected to it, now that I know it doesn't, I am not sure what use it might be, but is there for when I figure that out, suppose I could put a system monitor back there for when I am working on the engine. This is a list of parts I used to build my system, took lots of reasearch as my dealer, like most, wasn't very knowledgable. There are several ways to make the system, one system monitor, tach only, tach and speedo, I can help you find the right p/n's for what you are trying to accomplish. Remove the cable ends if necessary and run the cables, avoiding anywhere that might chafe and wear through the cable.

#Mercury smartcraft installation how to#

I will create a new post ' how to disassemble a smartcraft cable connector' to deal with this as lots of pictures will help

this is a very voltage and resistance sensitive system, so I spent a few hours trying to google the disassembly of these connectors, found nothing, spent a few more and figured it out for myself. I see guys on the net have cut the harness on the cables to get them through tight spots, and then splice them back together, I would strongly advise you DO NOT DO THIS.

#Mercury smartcraft installation upgrade#

you may also have to upgrade to a digital sender 50$) like wema (others are listed on the merc website) mine had one and works fine. one lead of this harness is fuel 1, it needs to tie in to the fuel tank sending unit, and you need to be sure the unit is also grounded, or it won't work. If you do not buy or connect this harness, you will not have paddle wheel input (troll control, or slow speed speedo) or remote oil (or water or waste) tank level, or more importantly fuel level. I could not find any info on the fuel oil and paddlewheel harness and thought it was going to connect to the junction box, but it came with a different connector, so I found one in the engine same size, and with the same wire colors. (pointing to fuel, oil, paddle wheel harness) Here is an image of the area with the two smart craft harnesses connected (blue network cable, and Fuel, oil, and paddle wheel harness)

#Mercury smartcraft installation install#

Here is the rough overview of my install in my 2008 PolarKraft Kodiak 178 FS with a 150hp optimax.ДЇirst was the completely unknown connector in the engine, this was easly found once I knew that there had to be a terminator resistor on it, so you look for a connector that ends (near the front righthand side) that has a yellow cap that reads 'terminator' keep it, you will need it.

I can help you with part numbers, harnesses, connectors etc. I took the leap, taught myself a lot and would like to share with you guys how to do it. If you have any questions, please post it on this forum, not by PM I was like many of you (I can tell by all of the questions floating around on these forums), wanting to install a smartcraft system in my boat, but found there is little accurate info out there.