2000 X-Star Problems...

[wdntexas]

I have a 2000 X-Star with several small problems that I'd like to fix... but I can't seem to find a service manual for sale. Does anyone know where I can buy a 2000 X-Star Service Manual?

Here are the issues I'm trying to fix... Any advice or suggestions would be great. Thanks for reading...

-Tachometer stopped working. (Probably just a wiring/fuse issue?)
-Speedometer stopped working (maybe something's clogging the sensor; does anyone know how to switch the spedo. to read from the second, unused sensor? I thought we had two spedo. sensors, one not being used b/c of the Perfect Pass being installed, taking up dashboard space... any ideas?)
-Hour-meter stopped working (stuck at 478.9 for a few hours now)
-Water Leak: water leaks from some hoses up near the front of the boat, driver's side, forward of the cockpit (right in front of the driver's feet). I'm pretty sure the hoses take bilge and balast water outside of the boat... but I'm not sure why the hoses leak (around some kind of pump device) even when the bilge and balast pumps are not running. The leak occurs anytime the motor is running... any ideas? Does anyone know what this pump/box is for? (A service manual would be awesome right now...!)
-The carpet underneath the glove box (left side of boat) gets wet. Not from water overboard, but from something inside the boat. I'm almost 100% sure that it's not a leaky hull (if the boat sits in the water without the motor running, the carpet stays dry...) But there are no pumps/hoses directly visible in that compartment. Any ideas of a leak (maybe from the ski locker, or another compartment) that could trickle into the compartment under the glove box? I'm stumped.

Thanks a lot for any advice or solutions to the problems... and if anyone knows where I could get a service manual, I'd pay top dollar. Most of the battle in fixing this stuff is just trying to figure out wiring diagrams, water hose routes, pump locations, etc... If I had a manual, this would be a lot easier!

Cheers,

Bill
Austin

[Goalie_ken]

I bet you the water leak (drivers feet) and speedo are related. Check the tube that should be connected by the drivers bulkhead. On my 2000 Maristar there is a "control module" that the tube plugs into. It also has electrical connections that control the dash (tach, warning lights, volt meter, etc..)

[cshaffer]

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-The carpet underneath the glove box (left side of boat) gets wet. Not from water overboard, but from something inside the boat.
Bill
Austin[/QUOTE]

My 205V (which is basically the same boat) does this when it rains even with the cover on. Are you noticing the water after a rain?
I have since got a canopy that I park the boat under with the cover on and no more water in that area.
It damaged an amplifier I had in that area.
I don't know if the water came from down the dash between the observer seat and the fiberglass of the dash.
Hope this helps.

[cshaffer]

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-Water Leak: water leaks from some hoses up near the front of the boat, driver's side, forward of the cockpit (right in front of the driver's feet). I'm pretty sure the hoses take bilge and balast water outside of the boat... but I'm not sure why the hoses leak (around some kind of pump device) even when the bilge and balast pumps are not running. The leak occurs anytime the motor is running... any ideas? Does anyone know what this pump/box is for? (A service manual would be awesome right now...!)
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Bill
Austin

Do you have a heater?
If you do then this leak sounds like you have a heater hose off or damaged. Or a leak in the heater core.

[NewbieMastecraft]

-The carpet underneath the glove box (left side of boat) gets wet. Not from water overboard, but from something inside the boat.
Bill
Austin[/QUOTE]

My 205V (which is basically the same boat) does this when it rains even with the cover on. Are you noticing the water after a rain?
I have since got a canopy that I park the boat under with the cover on and no more water in that area.
It damaged an amplifier I had in that area.
I don't know if the water came from down the dash between the observer seat and the fiberglass of the dash.
Hope this helps.[/QUOTE]


In my 2000 205V, there is a vent hole on each side of the boat right in front of the windshield. There is a 2-3" vent hose that is supposed to run from the vent hole, toward the centerline for the passanger hose), then straight down through a hole in the carpet into the bilge. It is plastic, with wire coils built in - It looks like a clothes dryer vent hose. My hose was black, and dry rotted. It was letting rain water or any splash that got into the vent hole on the deck to drop on the carpet, instead of making the full "trip" to the bilge. Replaced with a new hose and now its doing fine.

There is also supposed to be a hose for the driver's side vent that goes more or less straight down. If that one is leaking too it may have messed up some of your electronics and account for some of your other gauge problems.

[wdntexas]

Thanks for all the responses. Cshaffer is 100% correct about the heater unit: it's leaking water like crazy. I was hoping to find a hose clamp that was loose, or something equally simple, but it's coming from inside the heater box, so I'm going to have to get the box out of there somehow... accessing it isn't easy.

Thanks also for the advice about the vent holes, NewbieMastercraft. I have the same vents that you described, and I bet that's the problem... or something related to it. I'll check on that today...

Thanks again everyone, Happy 4th,

Bill