Recent content by jeffsuwanee

Can someone please tell me where the shower / condensate sump pump is located on the 540 Sundancer. No matter how hard I try I cannot seem to uncover anywhere.

Guys, thank you very much for the information. Really great to know about the gasket, I had no idea. I suppose I would have found that when I pulled the pump off. I will get a gear puller so that I can remove the gear from the old pump assembly, but I am curious will I just push it on to the...

Just ordered a Sherwood 1710C water pump to replace the current one which is old and has a leaky seal. I noticed that the 1710C comes with the flange mounted on the pump and the flange has a threaded end. So, once I take off the 2 bolts holding the current water pump in place will I pull...

Everything has been fine until I replaced the impeller on the port side of my 420AC. For those of you not aware, there is next to no room to change that impeller and I was on top of, around and all over that motor in order to get the new impeller in. The white smoke began after that project...

I have a '97 420AC with a set of Racor 900's for each motor. There is a yellow handled petcock which allows you to choose between the two filters as to which one you are currently using to filter your fuel for that particular motor. I have found that when I turn the petcock to select the...

I have a 1997 420AC with three Cruisair air conditioners (2 -8000btu and 1-16000btu). They all operate of of the same water pump. The 16000btu unit is toast and when pricing the major brands, I noticed that Cruisair is more expensive than all of the others. If I wanter to install a new...

Great advice Frank....Thats so much....will get to it first thing in the morning. Jeff

I changed out my impellers yesterday, and one side lost 3 splines...found them all in the immediate pump housing lodged in the 4 water vents of the housing...on the other side I lost 5 splines and they are nowhere to be found in the pump housing...where do I look next? I'm pretty sure the the...

I have a Westerbeke 8.0BTD diesel generator with 1650 hours. Has been running great, recent oil change and impeller change. Ran great all weekend, then I walked into the boat, boat was warm, looked at electrical panel, no power from generator. Genset was still running nicely, no odd noises...

I have a dead genset...can anyone tell me where the generator battery lives for the 420AC....I am going to start there. Thanks, Jeff

On Monday I removed the 2 - 30amp shore power cables at my slip from the boat and relocated the boat over to a service dock for the past few days to have some fiberglass work done. While on that service dock I used a spare 30 amp cable I had to get shore power to the one side of the panel that...

Hey guys.... Have you noticed that the a/c unit for the aft statroom, that lives under the salon couch has a condensation hose that drains into the bilge, rather than a sump box? this summer i have been getting a bit of water in the bilge and after much troibleshooting, i have found that its...

I have a '97 420 AC with a Westerbeke 8.0BTD genset with roughly 950 hours. In years past when out on the hook for a few days , with the gen running nonstop, we never had any soot issues...but recently I am noticing some dark soot residue on the gelcoat surrounding the water/exhaust outlet on...

Good point Mainstream. Honestly, this is a unit installed in 1998 and i have all of the paperwork on the unit and its history. If I have a guy throw service gauges on there and find out that the refrigerant is low after only a couple weeks, I will simply buy the Mermaid fcf9000 , install it...

Holy smokes.....a great set of directions. Now all I have to do is find a youtube video of that to understand half of what he's talking about. But Im going to have to learn because it does save cash to understand how to do this kind of maintenance ....and I guess, once I understand how to do...