Suke and Swatski,
THANK YOU! Like every good DIY'er...I re read everything you wrote...wracked my brain of the umpteen million projects I've done already..and thought..I'm gonna look behind that Starboard port hole ONE more time. What a spaghetti mess of wire back there plus bilge line, vents red water flush line and all my wire and lines going to back of the boat.
So....I thought, lets use technology, thrown the phone in there...snap a bunch of photos and see what I find. Well Low and behold a cable that looks a lot like your picture with one red going in and 3 wires coming out.
I feel around work my hand down to it...and it will NOT budge....doesn't feel like a zip tie...take some more pictures and make sure I'm not gonna ruin or rip any wires when I pull... and low and behold its has what appears to be like a Price tag wire holding the starboard ecu plug in place to the bottom of the boats wood decking......keep searching....I now find the port plus with the exact same price tag wire holding it down behind the vent blower where you can't see it and would never ever ever know its there!!!!!!
Now all wires are back in place, tidy'd up for future ECU reads.
I hooked up the laptop, followed the instructions to get my port changed to COM 1...(don't ask me how I did it on Window's 10, all I know is when in doubt on a Windows computer "right click the mouse" and new pages open up....So I got it changed to Com 1....STILL was not reading....so I found out A. Once you find the ECM wire you must bump start the engine than leave in the ON position but not running...low and behold everything pops up on the computer!!!! Hurray!!!!
Best news (at least I think it's good news?) Only 148 hours on the engines...and it only has thrown 2 codes...which are nothing codes I assume...overheat and low oil....I checked both ECU's....same on both...
I assume if I had the (GASP) injector issues many 04-06 230 boats had...I'd see it on the software. My ECU's and the decking behind it must be a late model 06 because the decking show's no place to allow water in, the design is water tight, the ECU's are under the decking lip and not a drop of water shows to have ever entered anywhere near the ECU's. Just to be safe I added a Bead of Silicone to the top of Each ECU. But what a joy to see these 2 pictures on a 2006 AR 230 on May 20th 2019. 13 year old boat with only 148 hours.....I'm almost done with every single project I've wanted to accomplish on this boat over the past month and will write up my 2006 complete update.....But finding these plugs and getting the computers read was one hell of a mystery over the past month...I'd look and look and look.....ECU wire behind a starboard port hole, behind the blower vent, stapled to the floor almost out of reach and definitely out of view....really? Really!!? Thanks guys for all the help! This Forum is sooooo valuable in my part time play job of making the AR almost new!
P.S. It looks like half the hours were at slow no wake or below speed!....I think this boat was a pleasure viewing craft and not the heat seeking jet missile we all know it can be when put through it paces.
It's A Good Life!
Marc Messinger
