Naiad Hydraulic question

[JadePanama]

Hi everyone.

I have a question about my Naiad hydraulic system. This supports both my thrusters and stabilizers. The system uses a main distribution manifold with 10 or so connections that go into the sides. On the top of the manifold are 4 large bolt heads. One of them just started leaking pretty badly. (circled in red in pic). While I feel pretty strong in most any system on the boat, the one I have no experience with is hydraulics in general.

Are these bolts on the top of the manifold just that.. bolts? where possibly an oring or gasket failed and i can just pull and replace, or are these functional internally where they are part of how fluid is routed etc in / out of ports.

I guess in general, are these big manifolds essentially just a big distribution block or is there more to them than that?

Thanks in advance to any of you hydraulic experts out there

 

[RT Firefly]

Greetings,
Mr. JP. Give Stabilized Marine in Fort Lauderdale a call. (954) 797-7330. VERY helpful to me when I needed information and servicing.

Hope they're still in business...




Pretty sure if you send them one of those pictures they can help you out over the phone.

 

[Arc]

My bet is they are Boss plugs. They cover ports that can be accessed for various uses. There should be an o ring right under the cap . If you are concerned about removing them , you can loosen it a few turns and with a pick take the o ring over the top.

 

[bkcorwin]

I too would guess an O-ring boss plug. Its a really good thing to have extras on hand. You can/should buy a cheap kit of caps and plugs for both O ring boss (ORB) and JIC. Each is probably 100 bucks. In the event of a line failure or other issue, you can disconnect the damaged hose and plug the ports and keep other aspects of your systems running.

 

[JadePanama]

Thank you both for that info. that's what I suspected, but as I said Hydraulics has not been my thing. Ill pick those up (ORB and JIC) and knock her out. Electrical, Plumbing, Mechanical, Electronics etc... I'm good... I am sure this is no different than anything else just need to dig into it.