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My hose connecting the pump out fitting and the holding tank is original, 1987, to the boat. It looks a bit cracked and could be a source of oder. The current 2” ID hose is black with wire reinforced. Can it be replaced with a white pvc schedule 40 flex hose or does it need to be wire...

Quality T Tops in Tarpon Springs. They did 4 tanks for me, and 1 for each of 3 neighbors. Very pleased with their work.

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Thank you all for the suggestions and help. After many tests and repeat test and even though I swapped senders to wire harnesses with presumably positive results, I swapped senders to motors and now the stb side works and the port side does not. Original stb side sender is faulty. Now to find one.

Yes all of the power wires from the ignition and all of the ground wires are linked

Are you available tomorrow Thursday? I have run a fee more tests today and still no joy!! I am in Gulf Harbors.

More thought needed since the stb sender works using the port wire harness and the port sender makes no difference to the stb gauge. It still pegs.

Using a lighted circuit tester, I connected one end to the ignition wire and the probe end to the wire coming from the sender. The light did not light. However when I touched the probe to a ground it lit. When I connect my stb sender to the port engine wire harness, run my stb engine, and turn...

Thanks. I am going to try one more thing tomorrow and will get with you thru TF

My sending units only have two wires. A numbered black which is connected to the gauge on the dash and a green which is connected to the low pressure alarm switch. If they are grounded it must be by the threaded fitting that attached then to the engine block.

New info as I do have Cat 3208s. Thanks. However wouldn’t all the gauges act the same way and max out or would it be just the engine oil and trans oil pressure gauges? I will check this tomorrow.

My panel hinges forward so the back of the gauges are accessible without removal.

I have run new temporary wires from the sender to the gauge and it still goes to max. When I disconnect the ground from the gauge it stays at zero when the ignition is turned on. With the power line disconnected from the gauge it stays at zero. They are all 1987 VDO gauges.

The issue is not too high pressure as tested when I switched wiring from starboard sender to port gauge and the gauge read proper. The gauges max when the ignition is turned on and remains maxed when the engine is stated and run.

They used to work for years then one day they stopped. As Soon as the ignition is on they max out and when the engine is started and run they remain maxed out.

I want to write down what I have done to figure out why my gauges are not working so hopefully you can find something I have missed and point me in a better direction. My engine oil pressure gauge and my transmission pressure gauge on both lower and upper helms of the starboard engine are...

Two of my tachs have started to register 500 rpms lower than they should and I want to have the other two that I believe to be accurate tested. I have two helms and two Cat engines. One tach from each side and each helm started to malfunction at separate times so its time to repair. Does anyone...

Call Dave at Pitmans in Tarpon Springs on the Anclote river. They have on site fiberglass and paint people. Gantry to lift boat out of the water and move it in the yard. I use them for all bottom paints and various repairs.

Just returned from a great three week cruise to find we have a small leak in the port side fuel tank of our Jefferson Sundeck. I have located the drip and it is on the bottom and inside side seam in the back of the tank at the weld joint. I have viewed it with an endoscope and the drip is about...

I should have mentioned my dinghy now resides on the sundeck roof so my panels will go on the radar arch.

I just ordered a new 400 watt solar system to keep my batteries charged while running my refrigeration off an inverter. I plan to attach the 4 panels to a frame that will be attached to my radar arch. I would like to ask what have some of the other members of the forum done to mount their...

I am glad they are going to a good home that will care for them as they should be. Too many things from the past get passed over and pushed aside by the new technology. We need to remember and revere where we came from.

Peggy, if you still have these I would love to put them to good use. I learned drafting in 7th grade which lead to Architectural school them my own design firm and custom home building as well as land development. I still have all my tools from the late 60s to date and keep using them. Including...

I will pm you with my address so you can send that $1. My discharge is at the bottom of the tank with a 1.5” clear plastic tube connected to it going up to the maserator pump. I removed the vent line from the tank fitting and am able to blow air out through the vent as well as into the tank...

I installed a clear plastic tube from the bottom Suction fitting of the waste tank to the Suction end of the mas pump.