Lund / Humminbird 998 HD SI Rigging

[KAG]

Well after careful negotiations with my domestic partner (wife)....she became convinced that me getting a new Humminbird 998 HD Si was a positive long term progression path for the relationship......in other words I would be gone more fishing and not bothering her

I picked the 998 HD Si as I already have Humminbirds and like them and with the new iLink and 360 on the wish, hope, and pray list it was a pretty easy decision. Was able to snag another Lakemaster chip version 4 on line for $60. Also picked up a ram mount. I will have a 998 and a 858 on the console area and my other 858 on the TM. the plan is to run just SI on the 998 and use the 858 for DI and GPS. I will pair the 998 and 858 on the console to just one GPS puck. It comes with a GPS Y cable in the box. My current GPS puck I am just leaving where it is.

So I began looking for a photos, videos, and just good advice on not only rigging the new 998 but completely re-rigging the other units to hide all cables and wires as much as possible. I did not find much so I decided to take photos of how I did it and maybe someone else can get something useful out of this that wants to or needs to do it themselves instead of paying the stealership to do it. Plus they were not much help on advice as far as routes to run cables and such....they did offer to have me schedule a service appt bring it in and they would rig it...uuuu No. Tonight I was able to get most of it done in about 3 hours but still need to mount the si transducer and install inline fuses then fire them all up.....tomorrow

I will probably break this up into a couple of posts.



I started by trying to take out the square head screws Lund used to secure the various pieces. Well what happens when Lund used square head screws zipped into wood with power tools....yep stripped quite a few and very hard to extract. But once get the back panel off and the deck loosed to where you can actually see the pathway it gets much better. You can try to use the string method to pull the cables through but it was a No Go for me as its just tight a fit in several places to pull through. There is a narrow track pathway to the far upper left that controls and cables are already running....this is the area to use.



So I found the narrow track that cables need to go through to feed them to the front near the console. Very narrow and tie in there and blind feeding is not going to work. So you get the cable started then lightly pry open the track lip at the top to feed / pull the cable all the way through. Once through this area it fairly easy to get it rest of the way.


Go ahead and just remove the panel the controls are mounted to as you need to get back in there to feed the cables up under the console. I zip tied things as I went and was running multiple cables as there will be 2 transducers mounted to the back. Plus this area removed lets me feed all the wires and cables to the 858c Di I repositioned.



Does it suck....yes but do it right will pay off later....I hope. I will add the rest tomorrow.