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    • my 2014 has a red wire with an inline fuse..if you are under the dash panel it is toward isle of the boat..I have had luck pulling the fuse and letting it reset.  I don't know why but this worked vs. turning my batteries off. 

    • 16 hours ago, justgary said:

      Google Lens didn't find it using your photos.  I'm surprised.  Maybe a photo without background clutter and the item in focus might help.

      Anyway, it is easy to put the line segments together by creating a Reef Knot (loop-to-loop knot).  It is also easy to leave the segments together and push the knot loose, then put the now-available loop over the pylon.  I can see how the plastic device might make a handle change quicker, but how often do you do that?

      The handle-change thing is exactly the situation.  Of instant use when I'm swapping handles for different users on my learner bar truss (still haven't put up those details; mea culpa - buried currently), and particularly for when I remove my current personal handle custom made from parts, with a red-white-blue leader, and floaties-enhanced triangle

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      - which makes stuffing the handle through the loop on my takeoff-looped line challenging - to install the EZ-Up:
      I made an EZ-Up from a straight-line handle and clear plastic tubing, end-caps, floats and different colors of line just to make it unique; I bought all of that from Lake Elmo Sports (800-949-3566  Email: [email protected]).

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      The plastic tubing goes over every part of the line other than the final single leader - which as you can see, has a bi-color pair from handle to loop - the loop is mated with red-into-blue and blue-into-red and back into the braided pair, making the loop secure:

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      I bought a couple of pairs of knitting needles to make large/small diameter fids (one long - makes pushing fewer times - for where I had the room, and one short), and the parts from LESports, including 4 different colors of line.

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      But, getting back to the instant-change tool, that's still on the segment of line I acquired some time ago; I've not bothered to disassemble that line to put onto the multi-takeoff I use myself, as the EZ-Up suffices whether slalom or captured/don't-do-the-splits skis for training on the learner bar. 

      For takeoff-loop instances, we do just that: just leave the handle attached.  I've got my line starting with the 15-off and going from there in the usual sequence, so shortening is quick/easy.  I dunno if everyone does/did it that way, but my first times around the block had me removing the handle and shortening from 15-off and then reattaching the handle - ☺he said sheepishly...

    • Does your boat have an inline fuel filter? 

    • Use a fuel pressure gauge to test the pressure at the fuel rail.  I do not know the specs for that engine, but the pressure should be constant at key on, idle, and wide open throttle.  I'm guessing it is a 3 Bar system, so look for about 42 PSI.

      If that is good, do a full tune up since you didn't mention it.  That is plugs, cap, rotor, and plug wires.  The wires do not age well and do not get replaced often enough.  If that doesn't fix it, the other easy culprit might be the ignition control module under the distributor cap. 

    • I installed a Ridesteady about 4 years ago and love it. Love the knob and also you can set tons of rider profiles presets and also kept track of ride hours if you want to divvy up gas money based on ride time. I eliminated my Speedo on my 01 Sunscape because it lacked any lcd readouts and kept my tach which had hour gauge. Customer service was excellent when i had to call a few times during my install as I was a fairly new boat owner. 

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