Tower Light

[Dthorpe]

I brought my 212 Limited S in for its first oil change today. When I got home and put in in the garage, I noticed that the tower light was on. Never seen that before. I climbed aboard, both keys were in the off position. I fired up both engines, turned the key off, and the light was still on. I went back and turned off each battery (as I normally do when in storage), and the light went out. How can I turn this light off without turning the batteries off?

 

[JDRacing]

Not sure what year your 212 LS is, but assuming it is a newer one with the 7" Connext screen, with the Connext on, either select the light icon along the top, or push the button with the bulb on it. On the lighting screen, there are touch screen icons for the nav lights, courtesy lights and the anchor (tower) light. You should be able to turn off the tower light there.

Jeff

 

[Dthorpe]

Thanks, I'll check that out today.

 

[Dthorpe]

All taken care of thanks! So I pulled the clean out plugs to look things over and noticed there was a rope wrapped around the shaft of the left impeller. From above and below I was able to cut most of it out with a utility knife. But there was still rope in the impeller. After watching a couple YouTube videos, I was able to remove the rear housing of the jet and pull out the rest of the rope. I bolted it back on and used some silicone RTV to seal it. I was a little pissed off that the dealer did not notice this as part of the first service. I had even asked them to be sure the clean out plugs were in good order. They had not even checked that, as there was still water trapped above each plug. Well, at least I learned something.

 

[JDRacing]

Glad you found the rope. Yeah, I would have thought the dealer would find that. Is the impeller still in good shape? No bent or dinged blades?

 

[Dthorpe]

Impeller appeared fine. I was actually unable to just pull the impeller out as shown on the videos, but the piece of rope just pulled out easily once I had the housing removed. I used a silicone RTV before putting the housing back on. I think I'm good to go and it was actually good to learn how to deal with a problem that is in all likelihood a fairly common issue.