Official 330 Sundancer Thread

Hi and welcome. Best of luck on your boat. I don't know even since we have the same boats the systems could be a bit different so all I can share is what I see on mine and hope it helps a little bit..

1. Generator - Its a Westerbeke 4.5/5KW not sure of the size sure of the maker. Turn on the bilge blower switch, hold in the preheat button for a few seconds to pressurize the fuel system. With the preheat held in press the start button. Listen for her to start. Once she does continue to hold in the preheat button for a few more seconds, let it go and she should stay running. Load her up via the 120V panel.

2. Overnight with shore power I usually leave the battery switches on and the AC converter on to supply the 12V systems (lights etc) and to keep the batteries on a trickle charge. The rest I run off the 120V ac.

3. Vacuflush - 1. turn on the fresh water. You should have a breaker marked Head System, that is the vacuflush, turn that on too. You may see the amp meter on the 12 V battery ammeter moving as the pump primes up. It should draw a vacuum and flush from there. On mine as soon as I hit the Head System breaker the pump is energized I know because I had a leaking seal at the ball value and all it kept doing was sucking water down there.

Best of luck with the new boat!!
 
Hey Tom or anyone else, I have several small water leaks in the fresh water system around the water heater in the fittings, will replacing the "o" rings in those fittings generally stop the leaks? Thx, Plane 2 Sea, Mark
 
As the tanks burned off some fuel, I am learning the optimal trim and tab positioning, and perhaps the bottom may be cleaner with running, my fuel use just breached 1 mpg. This is in less than ideal conditons with ~15-17mph winds and whitecaps. I'm hoping to get above 1.2mpg in ideal conditions.
 
Hey Tom or anyone else, I have several small water leaks in the fresh water system around the water heater in the fittings, will replacing the "o" rings in those fittings generally stop the leaks? Thx, Plane 2 Sea, Mark
:smt021 Now I don't how I missed your post so sorry for the delay in responding...

WELCOME to the 13 year old whale 15mm fittings in a hot engine room club. I have most of mine now replaced on the water heater and the fresh water pump. As soon as you touch those things they will not seat properly again and start to leak due to their age. The O ring and the grey collar that sits in the fitting are what need to be replaced, the finger on the collar will crack and break first causing it to not hold the PEX pipe in there tight and suck air or blow water under pressure. I think they are whale fittings and I don't believe that the parts that FWS sells (collars and O rings) may or may not fit. Its easier by far to just buy the whole 15mm fitting then you are sure of no hassles for some time.

www.freshwatersystems.com is your friend. They have all the neat 15mm fittings you could want. Or you can check with your local dealer to see what they stock. The threaded connectors are 1/2 NPT fittings and FWS has 15mm to 1/2 NPT fittings. You may have a copper nipple on the hot water heater that is a 1/2 NPT to 15mm tube that the connectors push onto. If you do anything, first thing I would try is to clean that tube, the tube has to be clean for a good seal. If still no luck you can get the 15mm fittings from FWS and get some T's and 90 degree ones and replace them all while you are down there... It will cost around $50 but it is well worth the time and effort to have a fresh water system that works. It took me 3 weeks of fiddling around and now finally (fingers crossed) its working and no leaks...

If you have any questions feel free to PM me!
 
Hey Tim, good for you on the 330 thread. We just purchased a /98 330 DA from Florida and had it shipped to Ottawa, Ontario. We have some glitches that I will be fixing but overall seems like a sound vessel. It has twin 7.4 mpi's with vdrives. We are coming out of a 240Da with single 5.7efi so i notice quite a difference. If there is any advice you or our fellow members could give me on what to look for in terms of getting this vessel in mint condition, and best places to buy parts, I would greatly appreciate your help. You will probably hear from me often if that's ok.
Thanks for a great post Tim
Take care Gilles
 
2 things.THANKS for the info on the genset start and the vacuflush. Both work fine now and I have CSR to thank for that. One other minor thing. in my dyslexic haze and 3am posting I put I have 5.7's. I dont. I have 7.4's duh.
 
Tom, thx for the reply. I have "stopped the flow" for now by replacing all the "o" rings in the vicinity. Summer may be finally here in Northern Mi, "Plane 2 Sea" is runing well, we are the envy of the docks for the present time!! Mark
 
I need help from the 330 Thread! I just got my tv bracket from Sea Ray to mount in the cockpit. Due to the slope of the arch, I am having a hard time figuring out a good way to mount it flush with the arch and keeping it level. If I mount it flush now, it will face down. My local sea ray dealership does not have a 330 in stock to look at so if anyone bought a newer 330 with the cocktpit tv installed and could please post a picture of their mount to the arch, I would greatly appriecate it!!!
 
well, all the bugs are getting worked outta my new 97 330! already burned up a tank o fuel, no problems. Excited as hell , just put new name on and took of the rotty ol clarion cockpit speakers. Replacing them with Rockford Fosgates. Found these 250 beauties for only 120 bucks! Puttin in the new GPS on Friday. Have to create a mounting plate first. I am thinkin of going burlwood and then having all the instrumentation background replaced to match it. I'll have have this beauty shipshape in time to winterize her!

Masmar aboard
"3 little birds"
T 7.4 Mercruiser
Lake Erie
 
Uh, not so fast. Does anyone have any experience with a boat in neutral and the prop keeps spinning. slow turns albeit, but the turns move the boat. Indeed, when I open the hatch and look, I see revolutions. Is it my linkage? And why??? did my surveyor not pick this up??? He sea trialed the boat.
 
Interested in your tab re-design sounds interesting. Our 97 does enjoy running with some tab all the time. As for 4 blade props I changed ours over to 4 blade as soon as we got the boat. I ran her with 3 blade on the sea trial. 4 blade are night and day different. Idle speed and around the dock is much better, they bite and respond instantly now. She gallops down the fairway in idle with the 4 blades.

Our boat still has some significant bow rise getting up there but the props help push her over so she stay bow high a bit less...

We were out in some tight chop last weekend and she rode much nicer then our old boat in it..

I dropped Saint Max in Tuesday night. The tabs throw the bow over very quickly. Additionally, the bow rise at cruise is more controlled. In both with and against the tide, I had a 23 knot cruise at 3400 RPM as opposed to 3800 RPM. At 3200 RPM I had a 20 knot cruise. With the old tabs, the boat would struggle to stay on plane with full tab at 3200 RPM. Recall that Saint Max has 6.2L 5200 RPM @ WOT as opposed to the usual 4400 RPM with a 7.4L.

I was unable to use the 4 blade props I bought here several months ago. The props themselves were in perfect condition, however, because I am running 6.2L Horizons v. the 7.4's they came out of, Wildcat would have had to re-engineer the entire prop to get the performance I required. They would not do that. I respect them for that. Hell, they do everything from my boat up to a Nimitz class carrier. They must be doing something right!!

They reconditioned my 3 blades and that has made all the difference in the world.
 
Can any of the folks on this thread give me some hints on a transom shower replacement, or at least some info on a replacement handle for the shower? Ours looks original from 1997 and its only held in by the water connectors...

Any insights are appreciated! Thanks!!

Go in from the starboard side of the transom locker. Easy fix or replacement.
 
I dropped Saint Max in Tuesday night. The tabs throw the bow over very quickly. Additionally, the bow rise at cruise is more controlled. In both with and against the tide, I had a 23 knot cruise at 3400 RPM as opposed to 3800 RPM. At 3200 RPM I had a 20 knot cruise. With the old tabs, the boat would struggle to stay on plane with full tab at 3200 RPM. Recall that Saint Max has 6.2L 5200 RPM @ WOT as opposed to the usual 4400 RPM with a 7.4L.

:smt038 WOW that is a great improvement. I get 24K at 3200RPM on my 7.4L engines. You must be more fuel efficient now! Would you credit it to the new tabs or the re-worked props?
 
Go in from the starboard side of the transom locker. Easy fix or replacement.

Thanks! I've spent a nice long weekend in the transom locker, literally re-attaching the back rest to the transom seat which had rotted away...

The handle on the transom is a straight Delta replacement, $6.50 at Home Depot :smt021 As far as securing the mixer value, well I still have to do that...
 
Hi

Anyone know the diameter of the pex pipes from fresh water tank to the fresh water pump on a 95 330 DA. My fresh water pump went last weekend, and I replaced it with a aquaking 4.0gpm. It is a bit larger, and i have it rigged in for now, but I would like to properly fit it in by adjusting the pipes. SO was looking for the correct part # for the fittings, and diameter of pex pipe so I could make a new line that fits better

thanks in advance
 
Hey fellow 330 Sundancer owners.. Have any of you replaced the "Good" rope only windlasses with a combo rope/chain rhode/system. I have had a Lewmar V700 on my previous 92' 270 Weekender, and really liked the performance. I am considering a Lewmar 1000 Pro Horizontal combo windlass. Thanks, Mark Evans, Plane 2 Sea
 
Larry, I don't know the answer to your question. However, this may help. The size of the red and blue tubing and Pex fittings that serve the sinks in my head and galley are 15mm. I have a 1997 SD330.
 
Hi

Anyone know the diameter of the pex pipes from fresh water tank to the fresh water pump on a 95 330 DA. My fresh water pump went last weekend, and I replaced it with a aquaking 4.0gpm. It is a bit larger, and i have it rigged in for now, but I would like to properly fit it in by adjusting the pipes. SO was looking for the correct part # for the fittings, and diameter of pex pipe so I could make a new line that fits better

thanks in advance

Believe it is 15mm pex pipe with white/grey whale connectors.

www.freshwatersystems.com has the pope in 10' sections blue and red. As well as the metric connectors and unions with 1/2 NPT threaded fittings.
 
Having trouble getting antenna t.v. signal to amp/converter/t.v. Beige coax at Glomex antenna, black coax at amp. Is there a coax switch hiding to switch between shore cable and external antenna?
1996 330 sundancer. Thx, Mark Plane 2 Sea
 

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