28TE radar / gps installation??

[Mike Monte]

I had a Furuno 1833 radar/plotter installed when I purchased my boat in '02. A couple of weeks prior to me hauling it for the winter this past fall the radar became "intermittent". Time for an upgrade.
I had two local business' look at my boat and one quoted a price of $1800.00 (for installation only!) while the other one quoted $750.00 for installation.

I ordered a Furuno TZtouch and my son looked at the install guide.

My son (BTW, an engineering major student at a Boston college) told me that he could install it.....His words: "How hard can it be? Mount the dome, connect it and run the wires as we remove the old ones... Do the same for the display module...

This makes sense to me....

Have any of you ever installed a radar/gps unit?

I am willing to give it a shot.....at least we can mount the dome, (where the previous one was), run the wires, etc..

What do you think?

Mike

[catalina_mike]

It's not rocket science. The biggest issue is the cable ends fitting through the radar arch. So if he is comfortable with possibly removing the end and pinning it again or putting a cat5 connector on you should be good to go. Your new cables will need to be pulled through the arch and hardtop sides. I recommend hooking up a small nylon pull cord to your existing ones when you pull them out to pull the new ones back with. If it is tight some dish soap will help out. Tape the heck out of the pull cord to cable as it is easy to remove tape but to lose your pull cord makes life harder.

[Jeremyvmd]

I posted up in your other thead, but having installed several systems, if you can read directions you can install a system. Honestly making the cutouts the right size and finding space for everything is often the hardest part. I will admit it can be tedious and takes some time to get it 100% right, that's why you pay so much for install.