hughk wrote:
ric wrote:
You sound new to boats. There's one thing you need to understand about all boats. The brand of the boat is just who made the fiberglass hull, design layout, windshield, and the boat's wiring (but not the engine wiring). Everything else like gauges, motor, drive, cup holders, bilge pumps, hinges, latches, port holes, switches, virtually everything else.. is generic parts purchased from 3rd party manufacturers and not specific to your boat. They are nothing like cars. There's zero reason to ever goto a four winns dealer for parts unless it's for something fiberglass or a windshield.
Got it, thanks.
Why would you recommend a $70 pump when there are seemingly quite decent $20 ones?
Because if your bilge pump isn't working, it could be the float switch or the pump. There's ways to test if you wish, but the one I posted is 750gph. The factory one is 500. Pumps more water and is self contained with an internal float switch. In all reality your boat should really have a 1100gph bilge pump at a minimum but that requires upgrading to 1in hose and drilling the hole in the side of your boat bigger with a bigger thru-hull. That's a Four Winns mistake, a large one. Search for posts where people almost sunk their boat cause of it.
500gph is good for rain water that's about it. In an emergency situation where you're having waves splash over from a storm, or taking on water somehow... Something that small is just as bad as not having one. In a perfect world your boat would have two bilge pumps of large size.
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