Recent content by hattitude

I've owned the boat since 2000 and a little over a year ago, I moved to a small town about an hour North of San Diego, and got married. Since the move, distance & priorities keep me from getting to the boat enough to justify holding on to it. I only get down to it one weekend a month. It's time...

OK.... After I searched all the threads on the subject, I put Detroit Diesel spin-on adapters (part# 25010854) on the Allison M20 gears in my 46C. I used Wix #51810 filters. Good clean looking install, much easier (to me anyways) than dealing with the canister filters. While doing my research...

I've had the spin-on oil filter adapters, in place of my OEM canister filters, for several years. They are on Detroit 8V71TI engines. I just did an oil change and noticed the stbd adapter is leaking. It appears to be from the back of the adapter, not the new filter. I'm going to pull the...

I just want to save any of you from the hassle I'm going through with Xantrex.... I bought a Statpower TC40 in 2002 to charge the three battery banks on my 46C. There are two banks of parallel 8D's and one bank with a 4D for starting the generator. The charger was mounted in the engine room on...

I have a 46C and the water tank gauge constantly fouls from water deposits and starts to hang up, giving false readings. I am thinking of replacing it with a WEMA sender with remote gauge (so I don't have to go to the engine room to read it). Can someone tell me the size of the threads to the...

I have owned my 46C since 2000. During this time, I have had the props prop scanned and fixed/adjusted twice. First prop tune to reduce pitch- done during a haul-out 2004, ended up with Final Unbalance - Near plane 2.4 gm-in and far plane 6.9 gm-in Second prop tune because of vibration- done...

I've pretty much thought about buying/installing the KVH TracVision C3 satellite antenna on my 46C. I have two questions about the installation instructions. 1) The directions quote, "The antenna must be kept out of line with nearby radars to avoid damage." So this appears to mean I can't...

I had an engine temp creep issue on my stbd engine, but it was intermittent. Then all of a sudden, it was rock solid, but read 195-200 & the port was right at 180 (where this engine used to sit). I know temp problems don't come & go, so I used an infra-red thermometer while underway. I found...

I have a 46C and the blower (fan) in the master A/C unit finally gave up.... I removed the surrounding wood trim and found the unit. It looks like a cage style blower and is located immediately inboard the cooling/heating grill. I removed the three wires for the blower and the mounting bolts...

I have a 46C with an '89 vintage Robertson Auto pilot. It has an AP250 control unit, N200 nav unit, NFC 200 fluxgate compass, and an RPU100 hydraulic pump. About a year ago, the N200 broke, too expensive to fix so I just unplugged it from the system. Yesterday at the beginning of a 65 mile...

I have 8V71TI's and I am chasing a temp creep on the stbd engine. i have been through all the usual stuff (impeller, raw water circuit flush w/phosphoric acid, fresh water engine flush) and decided since I haven't looked at the showerheads since I've bought the boat ('00), I should check them...

Thought I'd share my experience and lessons learned, as I just rebuilt my VacuFlush pump. I installed my system in May 2000. The system consisted of the "S" Vacuum pump and seperate vacuum tank. I had one each pump/tank for each head. I've lived aboard this entire time, so the master head gets...

I'm not sure what this all means, I need some advice; I installed a new swim step on the rear of my 46C that came with stainless steel brackets. Thinking I needed it to be bonded, I bonded all the brackets. I attached the bonding wire to one mounting bolt from each bracket and then attached it...

I was due to flush the fresh water circuit on my 8V71TI engines. I had paid close attention to the numerous discussions on this forum about this. I made my decisions, and went about the task. One thing stuck in my mind though... I remember Karl saying he replaced his petcocks with pipe plugs...

I read with great interest the threads on both engine room fans and the discussions on engine room air vents. I have a 46C with 435hp 8V71TI's. I plan to repower in five years and will install new slane vents at that time. Until then, I have two 12V blowers on the rear bulkhead of my engine...