500/520 DB official thread

j98052 said:
The ZF manual recommends changing the fluid every 500 hours. I changed mine last season at about 550 hours, and it was very clean.
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Thanks for the info.
 
j98052 said:
Do you mean behind the components? You start by removing the doors, and the metal clips on the top of the inside of the cabinet (that hold the doors in place). Then remove the screws from the face of the cabinet. At this point, you can slide the cabinet out. I strongly suggest covering the corian with a towel. Slide it out slowly, as some of the cables are shorter than others.
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Yup, however, there appears no access to get to the wire harness coming down from the bridge other than what is directly behind by removing the A/V sub-cabinet or the access panel in the below cabinet. We are replacing all of the electronic systems on the boat and cannot get the old wiring out of that harness.... Not to mention pulling the new wiring..
 
Correct - I replaced the electronics earlier this year and had to pull the tv cabinet out.

It’s very difficult to remove original wiring from those looms, as they’re wrapped or taped.
 
j98052 said:
Correct - I replaced the electronics earlier this year and had to pull the tv cabinet out.

It’s very difficult to remove original wiring from those looms, as they’re wrapped or taped.
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How did you get the TV cabinet removed? We cannot seem to figure that out....
 
Jeremygavin said:
I changed the fluid and filter in both transmissions last fall when I bought the boat. I will have about 120hrs on them this season. Fluid still looks clean. Do most of you change the tranny fluid and filter every season? This is my first diesel inboard transmission so not sure what the right service interval is on it.
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I do mine every other year. I know you can go 500 hours but that's to long a time for a boat that does 100ish hours per year. In the grand scheme of things its a small amount of oil and time spent vs a potentially season ending and certainly costly failure of a transmission!
 
swaterhouse said:
I do mine every other year. I know you can go 500 hours but that's to long a time for a boat that does 100ish hours per year. In the grand scheme of things its a small amount of oil and time spent vs a potentially season ending and certainly costly failure of a transmission!
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Agreed, knowing Cummins calls for a 500hr service interval I figured every other year would be good considering it would be 4 years before I hit that mark.
 
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all too familiar with that position..... Still can't get the old wire pulled out of that big harness because all the wire ties and tape are up where can't be reached....
 
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What size TV has everyone installed in their Salon TV?
 
I just stuck a 40" there and it fit well. I could probably go a little bigger, but not much due to the curtain door. My main problem is the Bose system is obsolete as far as HDMI hook ups go. Only RCA or S video inputs. My Bose also has been giving disc errors, and there is no repair. Bose doesn't service the 480 system anymore, and I can't replace it without replacing all of the speakers, and I can't figure out how to dismantle the walls to get the speakers out. I can't get my direct tv system to make sound through the Bose.
 
42” tv, spikedaddy check eBay you can get a Bose lifestyle unit for around $100 my sub died and that’s what I did I thought about replacing the entire system it’s just a giant PITA as Bose uses their own speaker wiring .
 
spikedaddy99 said:
I can't get my direct tv system to make sound through the Bose.
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Connect Direct TV receiver HDMI directly to the television. Use the television's digital optical output and connect using a Toslink optical cable to the Bose optical input (see below). Then simply set up the Bose optical input as your television audio. The problem becomes with the newer smart televisions, there are no longer any S-Video inputs which the Bose needs to utilize so both system setup and watching a DVD is possible. The only solution is to use the composite video output on the Bose and plug that into a composite video input on the television; you can then switch the television's input to see and perform the Bose setup. However, as a result, the DVD feature on the Bose is pretty much useless as the video quality is poor; I installed a Blueray DVD separately, connected it's HDMI to the television, and use the same Toslink digital optical link for the DVD sound. The digital optical link still encodes the surround sound.
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ttmott said:
Connect Direct TV receiver HDMI directly to the television. Use the television's digital optical output and connect using a Toslink optical cable to the Bose optical input (see below). Then simply set up the Bose optical input as your television audio. The problem becomes with the newer smart televisions, there are no longer any S-Video inputs which the Bose needs to utilize so both system setup and watching a DVD is possible. The only solution is to use the composite video output on the Bose and plug that into a composite video input on the television; you can then switch the television's input to see and perform the Bose setup. However, as a result, the DVD feature on the Bose is pretty much useless as the video quality is poor; I installed a Blueray DVD separately, connected it's HDMI to the television, and use the same Toslink digital optical link for the DVD sound. The digital optical link still encodes the surround sound.
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My digital optical goes from my blue ray player into the Bose system. So instead, HDMI from DirectTV and DVD to the TV, then digital optical from TV to Bose? I'll take a look at that way.
 
What anchor are you guys running? I think mine has a 60lb galvanized Delta. Which just looks like a beast on the bow.
 
rlynch03 said:
What anchor are you guys running? I think mine has a 60lb galvanized Delta. Which just looks like a beast on the bow.
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Mine is a 60lb stainless Kodak plow. It does seem large but that is what was spec from Sea Ray. My anchor was bent pretty bad when I bought the boat so I got the part number from Sea Ray for the replacement and it was the 60lb Kodiak which matched the bent one that was already on the boat. Better to be on the larger side than undersized.
 
ttmott said:
Connect Direct TV receiver HDMI directly to the television. Use the television's digital optical output and connect using a Toslink optical cable to the Bose optical input (see below). Then simply set up the Bose optical input as your television audio. The problem becomes with the newer smart televisions, there are no longer any S-Video inputs which the Bose needs to utilize so both system setup and watching a DVD is possible. The only solution is to use the composite video output on the Bose and plug that into a composite video input on the television; you can then switch the television's input to see and perform the Bose setup. However, as a result, the DVD feature on the Bose is pretty much useless as the video quality is poor; I installed a Blueray DVD separately, connected it's HDMI to the television, and use the same Toslink digital optical link for the DVD sound. The digital optical link still encodes the surround sound.
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I've said it before Tom - "you are a steely-eyed missile man"!!!
 
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