Recent content by Sleeping Bear

Glue it with 5200.

For all you folks with a noisy ME head, I changed to a system which uses ship's water thereby removing the water pump from Raritan, realised most of the noise was the raritan pump, much quieter now.

My 2003 pilot 34 is dark green, does anyone know the color code for this color? I am assuming the boat came from the factory painted with awlgrip, but I may be wrong.

Just finished a job with awlgrip, it is far and away the best paint I have ever used. The hull was painted 10 years ago and still looks new. The transom didn't get the awl care applied every year, and that is what I just repainted. Compared to other products I have seen awlgrip gives a far...

Looks like steam to me, is the impeller good, and the strainer clean?

If the twin is similar to our single, you should be able to run hoses up the port side behind the wall in the head, then under the sink, and across to the tank, Pretty round about but may also be doable on the stbd side. Our single has the hwt aft in the engine room, and up the port side is...

Those vinyl hoses get very soft when heated, I wouldn't use them on hot water.

I clean my tank with massive dose of bleach (4 gal bleach in 30 gal tank), but my tank is plastic metal tanks may not like this. I fill tank 3/4, add bleach, fill tank to top, let sit and pump out. The reason I do this is I have a light behind the tank to see where the level is, and it doesn't...

Call OnSpot dirfectly, they are very helpful. We use a pepwave

Your genset probably has an alternator which is hardly used, so an automatic charging relay between your genset battery and your house will utilize the alternator on the genset once the genset batt is charged (which is very quick because all it is used for is to start the genset). Cheap and easy.

Only thing I don'[t like about that engine is the single belt, better check that first, as as they wear they slip.

I use a carbon filter on the vent tube. It is a granulated carbon water filter with the standard water filter housing upside down and tilted so if there is ever a disaster it can drain back. The filter costs about ten bucks and lasts about two months constant use. It has to be a granulated...

Man, I'm surprised you had to do the valves, how many hrs on the engine?

Pretty funny because we just had this discussion at the breakfast table this morning while eating sourdough toast. We have a mainship 34 pilot with a microwave, but I am sure it will turn out the hole is too small for a toaster oven, so....... maybe I can buy a toaster oven and store it...

I have the old stuffing boxes, but with PTFE packings in them. Probably a couple of drops a min, never heat, never adjust, this stuff is amazing.