Alarm-like sound starts when I put motor in forward or reverse...

[Doonbuggy]

I am wondering if my electronics/wiring have been beat up by the LOTW rollers I endured a week ago.

My '89 70hp Nissan motor starts fine and runs fine (side console). However, an "alarm type" warning sound goes on and stays on whenever I move the shifter into either forward or reverse. It does not sound when I am in neutral. This sound comes from the console area where wiring is underneath the dash, the sound is not around the engine.

This has never happened in the eight years I have owned the boat and just started after going thru some big waves so I'm wondering if something in my wiring/electronics is screwed up as a result.

The graph/trolling motor are not causing any interference. I would appreciate anyone's thoughts or ideas. I don't believe this boat/motor has any type of overheating alarm and there's no smoke coming out of the motor. Thanks in advance.

DB

[PerchJerker]

Look in your manual or call a Nissan dealer, find out if your motor has an alarm for an oil pump failure.

Whatever the alarm is for, get it checked but don't despair yet. I've had 2 or 3 warning horns on my motors over the years, and in every case it was a bad sensor and not a bad pump. Hopefully that's your situation too. Good luck.

[sparkyaber]

make sure the motor is "peeing" like it should- We have that problem all the time on any motor we have had when the water intakes get covered with weeds. When you put it in Forward-alarm, Neutral-nothing. If I were a betting man, I would guess it is some sort of overheat alarm. If the outlet hole (pee hole) or even the hose is pluged, you would not see any smoke. This just happened to us a few weeks ago. There was duck weed in the outlet hose that caused the motor to quit peeing, thus causing the overheat.

good luck