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Can anyone point me in the right direction on changing my cabin lights to led's? I did the cockpit last winter and I'd like to do the cabin lights this winter.
 
I did mine two years ago, pretty easy to do. I replaced with the G4 LED's they push straight in if I remember correctly. Use a stiff scraper to get underneath the light base and then with both hands pull down, go slow as it comes down and out because the spring load will snap on your fingers like a mouse trip.
 
I agree it is not hard at all once you get the hang of it. The springs will snap your fingers if you do not watch out, but you will only make that mistake once. LOL. I used G4 4 w warm light LED bulbs that I bought on Amazon. I had to snip a small piece off the dual connectors to make them fit, but after that everything hooked up perfectly. Much better light than I had before.
 
I have a signed purchase agreement on a freshwater 2008 48 Sundancer, and looking to you all for any suggestions for things I should be looking for during survey/sea trial. The boat has the Cummins QSC 8.3 540 HP V-drives, bow & stern thrusters, hydraulic swim platform, ZF coupler service performed a year ago, 378 hours.

Thanks,

-Tom
 
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Congratulations ! A low hour fresh water 48 Sundancer is hard to come by, you will love the common rail diesels and the hydraulic platform.
 
TNT8808 said:
I have a signed purchase agreement on a freshwater 2008 48 Sundancer, and looking to you all for any suggestions for things I should be looking for during survey/sea trial. The boat has the Cummins QSC 8.3 517 HP V-drives, bow & stern thrusters, hydraulic swim platform, ZF coupler service performed a year ago, 378 hours.

Thanks,

-Tom
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Great boat. Lots of luck with it!
 
Congratulations! It's an exciting journey and all should work out fine with fresh water and low hours. I always recommend to have a good surveyor for the engines, boat and equipment and then you should be good to go. I hired two different surveyors when I purchased ours, Cummins engine surveyor and boat surveyor. It's a good piece of insurance with the large investment you are making.

JB
 
JB MARSHALL said:
Congratulations! It's an exciting journey and all should work out fine with fresh water and low hours. I always recommend to have a good surveyor for the engines, boat and equipment and then you should be good to go. I hired two different surveyors when I purchased ours, Cummins engine surveyor and boat surveyor. It's a good piece of insurance with the large investment you are making.

JB
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Thank you for all the replies. I will definitely have it surveyed. This boat has the ETS system in lieu of separate shifters/throttles. Do any of you have that, and can you share about your experience?

Thanks,

-Tom
 
I also have it and love it. Smooth as silk and I really like the single throttle control.
 
I have separate shift and throttles but hear the single controllers are very smooth and easy to adapt to on your first run.
 
2007 dancer 480
Guest head has an air leak between elbow under toilet and
Elbow going into vacuum tank. Black drain hose seems to be encased on port side with no access.

Does anybody have ideas
 
Not sure if your year had the sanitation hose issue but apparently a way to check is to take a clean paper towel and wipe the outside of the black hoses. Take out into fresh air and smell for odor on the towel. If it's there then you probably have the pipe failure issue and would have to replace the hoses which is big pain in the behind.

I thought I may have that issue but found I had a bad uniseal where the input hose enters the vacuum tank. A common issue if your moving around your bilge and lean or stand on it. That was an exceptionally easy fix.

Good luck
 
copb8tx said:
Not sure if your year had the sanitation hose issue but apparently a way to check is to take a clean paper towel and wipe the outside of the black hoses. Take out into fresh air and smell for odor on the towel. If it's there then you probably have the pipe failure issue and would have to replace the hoses which is big pain in the behind.

I thought I may have that issue but found I had a bad uniseal where the input hose enters the vacuum tank. A common issue if your moving around your bilge and lean or stand on it. That was an exceptionally easy fix.

Good luck
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We had to replace all the head hoses from the bowl back to the vacuum pump. VERY hard access. The master runs in a PVC tube the entire run from the bowl aft. 2 men 1 day to pull that hoses with clean up. Change the funnel at the same time and rebuild the head pump. Where it exits the engine room bulk head is in front of the port engine, almost no access.
Aft head is a bit easier but still not fun. I spent about $ 2500 for this job.
 
Is the guest head drain pipe in a pvc pipe ? Would it be possible to pull the hose out from the toilet bath cut out and than push a new hose through with lots of soap or grease
 
Air leak for guest bath was in the toilet discharge hose that goes back to pressure tank. Hose located behind fuel tank port side. Must pull complete new hose. Sea Ray dealer charging $1,400. 2 men 6-8 hrs.
 
As of this afternoon I am out on the hard and all winterized up including all oil changed. It was a beautiful day but sad. It will be seven months before we are floating again and I miss it already... It was a great summer of boating.
Now I will be making my spring maintenance list and upgrades.

JB
 
Just discovered this wonderful site. Thanks for posting your experiences with your 48/480's. We will be in the market in a year or so. Just sold our last boat. We are Midwest lake boaters but intent on moving to S.E. . Please keep the experences, good and bad comming.
 
We just closed on our new to us 2008 48 Sea Ray, and it began its journey at 8:00 AM this morning to our location. Should take about 5-6 hours. Looking forward to meeting many of you on this forum, as I move from the 410 forum. She sure looks big on the trailer...
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Thank you Carter! We're anxious to get her home. Only 379 hrs and freshwater her whole life.
 
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