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Posted this on the Sea Ray group, and the responses have been mixed. So posting here to see what the forums think My Sierra manifolds/risers/6" spacers are all 4 years old. Wet joint setup on a 7.4L MPI in salt water in the northeast. In the slip from April to October, then on dry land all...

winterizing my boat this year. I've got a 99 270da with a raw water cooler 454 MPI with a bravo 3, which means my water comes in through the outdrive, through the engine mounted raw water pump, through an oil cooler, power steering cooler, and cool fuel, then into the thermostat. I see a lot...

Took the boat out yesterday and everything seemed totally fine. Started her up to head back, no weird engine noises or any noises in general, but as we were heading out under low throttle (no wake speed under 6mph) the steering wheel had a weird shimmy every time i turned it. If i was just...

Problem - I’m replacing my windlass solenoid control box, and the obsolete version has M14 nuts for the positive terminals and M10 for the negative terminal. Newer version replacement has all M14, which means my negative cable’s ring terminal is too small to fit over the post Solution - I can...

99 Sundancer 270da. Need some input here on people who have worked on their windlass. I have a Lofrans Marlin windlass that was giving me trouble last season, but seems to have quit all together this season Last season, the up function was intermittent. Sometimes it would respond no problem...

Looking like its getting close to time to replace my ShurFlo fresh water pump. It wont shut off once i turn the dash switch on, and I havent found any leaking lines, so i'm thinking its the pressure switch. Its fine for now since i can just turn the switch on and off when i need to use the...

ANyone know the dimensions/diameter of the outlet fitting on the side of the boat for the AC discharge? I push pink backwards through the system with a drill pump, but i'd like to get some hose this year that properly fits the discharge so i'm not spraying everywhere trying to get it flush

I have a 4ESZ genset on my 99 270, thats been running fine all season. We went away a couple of weekends and had some bad weather in between so we havent been on the boat, so i went down the other day just to run the motors and generator. Ran the gen as normal, started up fine, ran for about...

Whats your preferred method of getting the pink through your Genset? I hate taking hoses on and off as i feel like it promotes premature wear and tear where the hose clamps are, so i'm thinking of just rigging up a 5 gallon bucket with spigot and hose, using a shopvac to blow water out of the...

I'll go first........ 30ft LOA, 9ft beam, single screw, no bow thrusters i have about an 11ft spacing between the pilings, BUT the space between the bow/stern sticking out of most boats on either side of the dock channel is no more than 45ft at best. Its a floating dock and there's about 6 of...

EDIT - See post #15, made it! Bout to have my first experience docking my 270 in 10-15knot winds with gusts to 20. The slip is in a marina where i will be backing in stern to, with the stern facing north, bow facing south, and i have very limited space to my port side since im towards the...

Curious to get others opinion on how you would approach this...... Goal - Double anchor boat stern towards the beach, can be crowded sometimes so you maybe have enough space to spin the boat between the other two boats. Issue - Depending on tide, there can be a 3-4 knot side current as the...

New to us 270 Sundancer with the Kenyon Kiss Butane stove. We bought the boat end of last year and havent used the stove yet, but heading out for a weekend in a couple weeks and was planning on using it for some cooking. The more i've been reading about these, the more i've been seeing that...

My windlass functions perfectly, but my bow footswitch is being strange. The down footswitch at the bow works no problem. The up footswitch will work, then stop and if you hit it again it just clicks but doesnt do anything. Lowering the anchor for a second and then hitting up again sometimes...

Anyone with a 270da know how their cockpit drains around where your feet are at the helm? It seems like water tends to pool in the area along the starboard cockpit floor where it meets the molded seat. Like there should be a way for water to travel freely under the seat base but it doesnt look...

For all of you with 270s/290s with the cupholder above the port lounger that doesnt hold anything in place when you hit any kind of bump. I know some people go the route of 3d printing plastic risers, or drilling holes in dowels as risers, but heres an off the shelf quick fix Before Go to...

Has anyone added any lighting to their swim platform? (not underwater transom light). I bought 2x blue LED light strip fixutures with the intention of wiring them to the cockpit lighting harness from the transom locker and adding a switch somewhere to turn them off if needed. The swim platform...

What are ya'll doing to splice into existing wiring to add lights, or anything outside of the cabin? I want to add another Perko light under my stern seating, and put a light on the swim platform, so i can easily splice into existing wiring in the transom locker. My concern is with the locker...

Prepping for an install of EVA foam in my Sundancer cockpit and I need to fill the old screw holes for the carpet snaps. The holes go all the way through, and some are in areas that I can’t access underneath Should I just get Marine Tek, smush it in and leave a little bubble on top and sand it...

Just recommissioned for spring and I need to troubleshoot the generator Starts normally. New plugs. Oil level is good. Coolant level is good. Water is coming out with the exhaust. Runs strong for about 5 minutes then it starts stumbling, recovers, and after 5 or 6 stumbles it dies out...