Where's my bilge blower?

[dane507]

It's still boating season here in Eastern North Carolina and I have a bilge blower that is growling like mad. I feel like a Rookie cause I've spent time in the bilge trying to locate the blower motor without success. Anybody out there able to tell me where they hid the blower on a 97 330 DA.

Thanks in advance,

 

[Lazy Daze]

Can't tell you exactly where it is, but... are you trying to find it with it turned off? Turn it on - should make it easier.

They are usually not easily seen as you you'll only see the center section of it since the rest of it is inside the hoses.

 

[dane507]

Yeah, but it is so loud it echoes through the bilge. Actually when I tracked the vent hoses it appears it has to be at the stern on the port side, but the sound and vibration appears strongest on the starboard side.

 

[Lazy Daze]

Do you have two blowers?

 

[dane507]

According to my manual just one honkin 4 inch 4000.

 

[Lazy Daze]

Hoses typically go to both starboard and port side. Many times there are 4 hoses, but only one of them will contain the blower. It could be screwed to the aft wall of bilge - ie, the transom. It could be screwed to the flat, horizontal area behind your batteries or genny, for example.

 

[Bridog]

One of these somewhere? When I first starting looking for my blowers I couldn't find them until I realized that the actual blower was what I thought was the support for the hose. My bad :grin: http://www.westmarine.com/webapp/wc...toreNum=50366&subdeptNum=50379&classNum=50384

 

[dane507]

You know I think I saw something that looked like a bracket on the transom wall about in the middle. With a gen set and closed cooling system piping there isn't much room in my bilge to crawl around. Keep the suggestions coming. Thanks

 

[Lazy Daze]

Right... if you look at the picture that Bridog posted... imagine having the black hose zip tied onto either side of the "bracket" -- all you would end up seeing is the middle 1" or 2" of white plastic and the two screws that fasten it.

 

[dane507]

I will renew my search tomorrow. We are still having weather in the 70s and I want to spend 2 or 3 nights out with the Admiral before it gets to crispy. Thanks

 

[Woody]

I will renew my search tomorrow. We are still having weather in the 70s and I want to spend 2 or 3 nights out with the Admiral before it gets to crispy. Thanks

I looked at your owners manual and you should have one on each side.