Recent content by Brett Allred

Thanks for the reply Chris. Were you satisfied with the result? Did they scan it before and after?

I'm going through the dry exhaust repair of my twin QSM11 Cummins engines that all QSM11's have or will experience. The solution, by popular vote, is to de-prop the vessel to reduce load on the engines and I completely understand and agree with this argument. My wheels are 28x32 and I plan to...

When removing the mate's seat (seat next to captain's chair) in the bridge I found what appears to be a tiny motion detector hidden under the edge of the seat. This, I suspect, is to catch someone walking through the door to the salon. I broke the cover trying to remove it from it's location...

Filters are after selector valves as the outlet of each Racor run directly to each engine.

Thanks SKybolt & ttmott. I have the pump plumbed before the filters aka at the inlet of each filter. The selector valves "appear" to work as intended because they draw down the tank(s) they are pointing to. I've run this through the grey matter every way I could and the only answer is that the...

I recently installed a fuel transfer pump in my new to me 480 MY. It worked very well once I discovered how to prime the pump. I plumbed it to the inlet connection on each Racor primary filter. Just one problem. The tank levels went the wrong way. My starboard tank was pretty full, port tank...