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Old 09-23-2008, 10:49 AM
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I have 2 wires that seem to go into my outdrive Bravo 1 near the drive shaft and I dont know what they are. They are orange and brown. they have a round connector on the end for a screw terminal. If I had to guess they would get connected to a pos lead and ground becasue they were laying in the bilge under the mercathode thing with a pos and neg screw terminals. they are not for my drive trim or trim limit. that works fine.

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mercathode has 4 wires to it terminals are color coded. I would think they go there. I would not connect them to pos and neg.
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So what is the mercathode? could these wires be to help with corrosion and the anodes on my outdrive? FWIW there is nothing connected to my mercathode and I noticed this after my engine was pulled l;ast year to have a new transom assbly put in.
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those wires are for your methocode ,the blue little box that should be mounted near your merc fuel/water seperator that says merthocode on it,my wires from my drive plug into a nother set of wires that run to that box,it is a system that prevents corosion from forming at your drive and also i think it deenergizes the water charge or something like that,but those wires go threw the outdrive hole into a black box at the rear bottom of your outdrive.
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