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Sailboat Vacuum Toilet "head" Repairs: EP 11 Adventures In The World Of Crap
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Feb 4, 2024
Come with us as we explore the unexpected dream of fixing vacuum toilets' on our sailboat. We got so lucky both went out at the same time. In this video we fix the aft head, and things get real crappy as we dive in the blackwater tank. My wife sticking to the stereotypical gender roles say heads are a blue job. She show us how to get rust off stainless steel and keep our sailboat Agua Azul. We also drop in the boatyard to too at a bottom paint that may work for our sailboat. Parts Used: Duckbill Valve Kit Fit for Dometic Sealand Vacuum Generators Fit for S,T, J,VHT, VG Series Pump Replace for RV and Boat Toilet https://amzn.to/4briQZG Jabsco Macerator Pump, Self Priming, Run Dry Protection, Waste Evacuation, 12 Volts DC https://amzn.to/48ZaXcB š¢ Our Website: https://www.chrisdoeswhat.com/ š¢ See Our Recipes: https://www.dininginwithdanielle.com Tools I Love: š Milwaukee 18-Volt Drill and Impact Driver Kit https://amzn.to/366BwxM š Husky Mechanics Tool Set https://amzn.to/3kuGUzD š iCrimp Ratcheting Crimping Tool https://amzn.to/3uv7u6i š Heat Shrink Connectors https://amzn.to/3HMB4r9 What We Us In The Kitchen: Empava IDC12B2 Horizontal Electric Stove Induction Cooktop https://amzn.to/47DD3bz
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oh my god that stinks so we're fixing the crappers today and yes it smells I
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cleaned it out really good but I'm gonna get this installed but first I'm gonna
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show you what I did I changed all the duck valves in this and a bunch of other
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things and I prepped with the smell a lot longer than she has I was even down
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the little hole down there oh that was horrible not anymore but it's good so
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yeah you said you would do all the crappy jobs this is literally I never
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signed up for that well this is literally a crappy job so so let's get
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so let's get into this and show you what we did okay so I got me a new
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macerator pop and I'm gonna see if this will fit in the place of that one this
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is a self priming and it has a run dry feature so it will hopefully burn up the
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pump but yeah this is nice all clean and stuff and I'm like see if I can get this installed hopefully the
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fittings are right if not I have to pick up some more fittings and that sucks but
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this really sucks but if you're concerned these tanks were empty and we
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just filled them up with water trying to get them cleaned out and it now they're
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full and that's how it shit so it smells not that bad but it is some ransom water
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and I'm sweating like a pig down here so let me get this in and I had this going
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pumping before and it just stopped pumping so I imagine this is not a self
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priming which is probably the problem loosen this up some more
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and just waiting to see till you see that stainless steel that my wife is working on that stuff is gonna look good after this it's gonna look like a brand new boat
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so my wife is out here cleaning chrome she asked me if she wanted to do the crapper
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instead she said this is uh this is much better well if it works the way it's
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supposed to I spray leave it on and then I go rinse it off with fresh water
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we'll see it's probably not gonna be that easy I'm probably have to scrub at it
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she's using that star bright right there it's not easy getting rust off your boat okay
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so it's not working that great it's working on very light rust like that looks a little shinier but like the
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stuff that's going on right here that's gonna need some scrubbing yeah that's some scrubbing it comes off okay so it's not just spray and go
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de-rust yeah but if you look at these fittings we're gonna come back
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and uh after the tour it's working and she's gonna have all this done
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oh yeah yeah one day job babe yeah one day whoever made these cushions suck this one's like uber thickness
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ah yeah that's war yuck still kind of crappy okay now I'm just gonna twist this off
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and that's coming directly from the crapper so
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did they just electric tape this whole thing is that what they did
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see if this is going to even work it's got that big long neck on it
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yeah it's gonna fit I don't like that thing it's gonna go right up in that 90
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and let's see how far it goes in there it's not that bad but still cutting down flow so might get some uh
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uh plumber's tape and put on this and then we'll get this plugged in and see if we can pump this water out of this
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tank we'll call it a gray water tank right now holy crap that's on there you want to make something hard to work on
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just wrap it a few thousand times with electric tape that will make it a lot more fun and there we go so I'm gonna get some new connectors
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so it looks like our black and yellow is our brown and brown is our positive
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but I can take a multimeter and test that but I need my lovely assistant my wife to push the button
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okay let me get this turned on we're doing 12 volts or
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or that's 20 dc that'll read it okay so damn it this should be the negative this should be the positive
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okay can you hit the button yep that's right oh that thing's loud okay so
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it's not priming I think it's I think it's actually a burn out I think they ran it dry
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and uh burn it out so we'll put this new one in
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and see how it works I'm gonna try to stick these under here to see if they can add a shield but first I'm gonna get
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this mounted and then I have these butt connectors that are wire proof I would uh really like to have
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the butt connectors I mean the insta connectors so I can uh if I need to change it again because these uh pumps don't
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last forever I can do that and the teflon's on there teflon tape
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okay I really like these uh wire clippers I can leave them a link down below
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so well actually the whole crimping tool is
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including this big sucker right there so this is our positive I mean our negative
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so just draw black over here
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okay let's see how that works if it smokes tell me okay that's success guys so a new pump clean out this tank this is not shit it's just
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it's just water I'm gonna have a hose in here I'm gonna do some more flushing of it
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okay now I have this heat gun and boy y'all really got on to me for uh actually on facebook
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for doing a uh electric uh kitchen solution or galley but uh it's a kitchen but I'm gonna run
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this heat gun which uh uses a ton of power on battery 20 amp uh circuit and
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I'm gonna be fine I'm not gonna fry myself or anything so here we go
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so that's much better than these uh yellow connectors that one needs a little bit more
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there we go bolt it down I'm good to go it's right here
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it's hot okay my babes out here this uh this side looks night and day difference
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I'll show this side what it looks like look down here and then this side and then we come over here and look at that pretty
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and then we have our boat neighbor over here he's uh y'all interesting he's got that up on the market leave comments and I'll put you get you in
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touch motivated seller has a new engine new generator everything but the hull everything
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but the hull is new so yeah it's right there and there's our dog that likes to bark at everything
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little dog doing good you have anything to say you have anything to say there nothing to say nope
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get back to the crapper you just need that water hose okay so the hole is right here
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and everything is working I still have to bolt that down but this is just water I have a wire
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hose in here my wife loves it when I bring in the wire hose and I've just been filling that
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tank back up again said it's empty but uh just trying to clean out some now
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this here is silicone so I'm gonna silicone this back in here I've already dried this
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let's see let's see if I can do a better one than I did on that
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back water tank that was very awkward to get to though okay so it's a little bit of kiwi dab
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you don't need a marine grade silicone in here it's not that important
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now take some screws here pick up old nasty right here pick up old nasty right here
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which does work I wonder if that float still works or if it's going to sink
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I guess we'll find out maybe replacing this in the future just drop this in here now this is a good tight fit
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get some of these screws in here slowly push this down okay
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and I hit all the holes that was amazing
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so not near the silicone mess the other one had looks good though
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it's almost beer 30. let's see let's wipe this shit up okay guys what we installed is the jessico cup pump this is the self-priming so right now this
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pump's above a water line above the black tank so we have to have self-priming to to complete the
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loop I think this thing will pump up to five foot so I ain't got five foot but that's good and then
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of course the other tools I used in here including my Milwaukee drill leave uh
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I'll leave links down below if you're interested in if not okay so my wife has all this side done and that chrome or that stainless is looking
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good and look at the bar she hasn't done that yet now she's working over here you haven't done the uh bar for the uh no I haven't done the back
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no I'm working on now where we get it all shiny that's all shiny over there this still looks like oh yeah
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and that painted area we can't fix that painted area no with this stuff
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area no with this stuff but yeah you look at this it gets out this white
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and all this rigging so so my baby got all her stainless down
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and oh yeah it's looking good you want to show it off or
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but the most that you can really tell is like on the right because this was this
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surface rust yeah but you look at this uh this white stuff
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unless you get close you can't see the rust anymore yeah it looks good baby
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me too breakfast on the boat my wife has just made me a delicious
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eggs over potatoes and this is leftover chicken from last night it looks yummy
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fried chicken so this girl can cook it up and uh it keeps us going and there she is in the kitchen
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and there she is in the kitchen making her own yumminess this small house okay guys there's danielle cleaning the windows again so always cleaning
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she was doing the chrome now she's cleaning the windows and this girl keeps this boat looking good
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i don't know how they got dirty we just did this i think it's the cruise ships
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they spit just dirt all over the whole boat is just covered in like a black soot
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constantly having to wash it down and i mean because literally how does a boat get dirty on
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the water it's it's on water well it's not like we go outside in the garage and tracking dirt
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into the house you know no i don't get it but look at that stainless steel too she got all of it
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cleaned yeah i need to rinse some of it off because there's some residue left on it like
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there's like on the bottom you see it i guess oh yeah i see it because that said i did a really
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good job at rinsing off and you just said i guess supports good and starboard's not
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well i already rinsed it off of there i'm just i'm just picking not like i'm gonna have to do this again yeah she also has uh wants toilets working for some
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weird reason yeah i'm not really a fan of you have to go getting off the boat to go all the
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way up to the marina to go to the bathroom okay now we're working on the back pump vacuum pump
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and it's way back here in the back lazarette see that yellow looking pipe goes in that white pipe
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comes out and this is back under the dinghy so this is where it's located way back here
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i got a nice ocean view and a tight spot okay so i got the rear toilet out cleaned it up it's
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right here this is a 1400 piece of plastic very expensive so after taking it apart realized that
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let me see if i can find one i cleaned them up so these duct valves you can see that
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they aren't closing maybe you can see some light through them but yeah not closing so
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we've got uh eight duct valves in place each unit i believe takes uh three duct valves
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you got one duct valve here and then you have two duct valves right here so this is of course
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the hardest one to get to and i'm going to replace the duct valves on both units but while i'm
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waiting for this order to come in i'm redesigning the cabinet so hopefully i can get my generator
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in the back storage room oh yeah we have a generator now power this crap up okay so all
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this crap and i'm sitting on it is out of my locker so good time to clean it up got my shop vac
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right here plug in and let's get this dirty mess all cleaned out look at that
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this looks maybe i can do a little hand scrubbing too so the nice thing about vacuum is i found
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this missing uh bolt for the vacuum pump so it was in there when i pulled it out i guess uh
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they had to fix this previously but got it and this will go right here
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i just need to get a washer for it because i didn't find one of them now that definitely looks a lot better a lot cleaner
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now i gotta get in here and see if i can move these down about three inches
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okay so i moved all these boards down this was a tight fit and now i have
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the uh cover let me put the cover on i'm going to see if my generator will fit in here
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okay so with the cover on the generator fits in there now i'm going to do a
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review on this generator later i want to do more testing but yeah
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that's a good home for it right there well hopefully you can see this but uh i just got
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these in and these are duck valves or what else do they call them they call them uh um
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well i can't remember but duck valves and we're going to replace there's three duck valves in
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here now you don't have to teflon these because these duck valves go around the edge and they
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provide your seal so i'm going to just pull this out all kinds of nastiness
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duck duck spray that off after i'm done and pop this in
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i'll leave a link down below but these these valves aren't that aren't that expensive if you
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guys source them off amazon if you go through uh places like uh west marine or some other places i
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seen upwards for a couple of them like 40 dollars i got eight of them for about 40 dollars so
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and i'm gonna wash my hands after this guys or go eat lunch one of the two
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okay that one's done something just dumped a ton of water over there
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and this one i've already taken out so i want to make sure when i got to the mailbox these are the right size they are
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okay and that's number three right there so we pop that in
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all the same size and there's not one anywhere back here and this is our
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pressure switch there's not a duck valve on that so just squeeze these in good and tight
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and pop this back on here now you only have to hand tighten these
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because you're making a seal against that duck valve and that's a pretty thick piece of rubber
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so it should conform to any impurities you have on your surface you're connecting to
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and then right here see back here turn this maybe you can see better this way yeah like that
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so this one slides in here and you can't bolt this down until this is tightened down somewhat
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i don't know what they did monkeying with the threads here but this piece right here four hundred
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dollars this entire setup fourteen hundred dollars i ain't gonna be breaking it i don't want to buy
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a new one okay and then that bolt i found just gonna snug these these don't hold much pressure
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so there we go pumps together now let's get this thing installed see if we can get a vacuum
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okay guys i'm here at my buddy's boat marvin and uh great guy from brazil awesome boat he's
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done a lot of work on this thing but he's got this uh biocop and uh i was either thinking about
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the biocop or they have another one that's more for tropical that has 75 copper in it so
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if i could just have your opinion on uh on that and also let me uh span over here this is marvin
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how you doing guys oh yeah this guy has he he's a wealth of information and for much for a newbie
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like me yeah he's been arrows and trials trials and arrows we get in there yes sir so yeah tell
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me what you think and of course uh i've got my own opinion but i'd like to hear yours
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okay my wife thought that smell was bad i got this thing on
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and uh it wasn't pulling a vacuum before let's see if it pulls it back in
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oh that stinks yeah it's pulling a vacuum now okay so i had to squeeze myself down here to get the
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the back of this uh vacuum pump in the groove mount but this is what we look like in here for
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space there's my pump right there and this is my room so i'm kind of tight in here but i've got
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these screws that i've got to get in and it's hard to do bend over on the hatch
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so we got both them screws on that side and now we have to mount the crap hoses
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okay okay i'm gonna wash my hands before i touch the phone
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um okay so we're inside got all that hooked up and we're gonna flip this on and see how it works
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so barely drawing any power unlike the back the bow one which is uh
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hitting upwards of 30 amps so now let's see if it flushes
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oh yeah pressure okay we have ladies in the house so
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any ladies? how many ladies you got around here? just one my lady
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okay so this locker is all clean and it rebuilds the platform to load the smell
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three inches that's where i pulled one of the bent screws and look at that the pump shuts off
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so we're holding a vacuum now that is awesome okay so i got the anchor all loaded up
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there is my spare line bag back there is my cables and my spare anchor
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and there's our generator and it all closes up now let's see one hand that's why you tie real nuts
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that's why you tie real nuts there we go and it closes
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so now all i have to do is clean the top of it my gosh it's dirty
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it's dirty hydrating water it's not a drink so hopefully uh this video was entertaining or helpful
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i know the uh crappers they're working good now at least the the rear one i have to still do some
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stuff i'm probably gonna have to rebuild the the vacuum pump on the front one and also change out
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the duct valves but uh yeah a lot of work and this girl's been doing a lot of work you'll see that
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of course he wants to put a camera in my face after i just got done scrubbing the boat
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