Installed my new engine control panel over on Saturday, I cheated and did not install the new harness as some of the routing would have required two people. I inspected the old harness and found it in good shape. I needed to trace out some of wire harness to adjust for the older color codes. I had thee extra wires going to my old panel that still have me scratching my head. After installation everything worked except the blower, I will need to trace that out next time. At first after firing up the engine I was perplexed by a burning electrical smell, I sniffed everywhere, could not find it. I thought it may be the hot soldering iron I had used to tin the wires. I unplugged that and still had the smell. About an hour later I went over to a neighbors boat that was upwind of me and noted the smell was coming from the other side of the marina, this relaxed my sphicter.

I even installed the temp alarm that I purchase a year ago. I had been postponing this due to the fact that it requires drilling and tapping a hole in the thermostat housing. I happened to note that the air purge petcock on this housing was the same thread size as the probe, so I replaced the petcock with the probe. To bleed the air in the system I will now back the probe out. I did not know the temp probe was adjustable, I do now.

Any of you with the MKI boats may want to try this trick.
The new panel gauges have round faces and seem a bit easier to read, though at the helm I still need to lean over to see them. I had a brain storm, when looking at the new panel, the bezel or frame the panel sits in is about two inches deep. I went to tap plastics and purchased two pieces of plexiglass mirror cut to fit on the top and bottom of this frame. I will put one piece on the bottom with RTV and another on top at a slight angle. this allows me to glance down a see the gauges without bending over, using two mirrors the images are not backwards. Just need to play with angles a bit before glueing them in place.