Mounting ff to 175

[majflyboy]

Just bought a new-to-me 2006 Tracker 175 Pro Crappie, going to mount ff on the console and bow. I have already figured out how to run the wires from the stern to the console, but running wires from the bow to the console, I'm not sure. Can anyone help? Pictures would be great, like these that I took of the back.





I hope you get my drift. I'm not a boat mechanic, nor do I play one on TV, but, if someone would post a picture of the access opened for the bow mount, that would be a great help. Thanks

[Cane Pole]

I took my front deck out. I added 2 cigarette adapters up front on the panel plus made a home run for my sonar power. It is hard to get around the minnow bucket\live well unless you remove the deck.

Lost all my pictures.

[PanMan_VA]

I used the stick on conduit available from any home store (Lowes, Home Depot, etc.) on the underside of the gunwales to run my wires between the console and bow. When I got to the bait well on the front deck, I just ran the wires behind it. I have the previous model 175 so things are a little different. Sorry, no pictures for that part of the work I did. The hardest part was getting wires from the battery into the trough on the starboard side. It took me a few hours or trial and error until I got the cable I was using to pull wires to show up in the right spot so I could grab it and pull it through.

[majflyboy]

Thank you both for your responses. I am still looking for some pictures of the bow installation. I am a total rookie at this.

[PanMan_VA]

I don't know if these will help but here are some pictures where I modified my installation to include cut off switches to the equipment on the bow.

Stick on conduit


Switch box and Broadband Sounder


Bow DF


Another bow DF

[yankee doodler]

This is how I ran the wiring on my 2002 FWIW.


automotive cable sleeve and adhesive cable tie anchors under gunwhale.

couple of cable guides across to FF.

[majflyboy]

Thanks guys for those pictures. Doodler, that's a nice looking set up.