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How do you tell when you have run enough AF thru the water system? Did everything as per users manual but does not say anything about if you should run it all or just until a certain coloration is achieved?

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97 258 vista 7.4 VP/DP......... 2008 GMC Yukon XL Denali


96 sundowner 5.7 vp/sx (SOLD)

If you start with an empty fresh water tank and an empty waste tank (remember that they are not 100% empty, after being pumped out).:

* Drain the water heater, then close the drain valve.

* Add the AF to the fresh tank. Keep an eye on the AF level in the tank, add more if needed, in order to perform the steps below.

* Run the AF through each faucet (galley, head and transom ... if applicable). Run both the hot and the cold, but do one at a time. For example, run the hot until you have solid AF from the spout, then change over to the cold and do the same. Run the water that will be coming out of the faucets (before the AF gets to them) into a bucket, if you have a gray water holding tank. Then let the AF run through the drain. If your gray water goes over-board, you don't especially have to use the bucket to dispose of the water, prior to the AF coming through.

* Drain the water heater. If you do the hot water first, you can capture the drained AF from the heater and reuse it for the cold side of the system (add it back to the fresh water tank).

* While running the galley and the head, you will also be flushing the shower sump, unless your model dumps these directly overboard, in this case, you would need to dump some AF into the shower drain in order to flush it. You likely do not have a gray-water holding tank, so all of your sink and shower drains will go overboard in one way or another, If you do have a gray water tank, the AF that you've been running through the faucets will be going through the shower drain and into the tank. Pour a gallon or two into the shower drain, so that it will go into the waste tank since it won't have been fully emptied when it was pumped out.

* Pour a gallon or so into the head (toilet) to flush the head and to add the AF to the waste tank.

Note that many prefer to blow the lines out, due to the work that is required to flush the AF, in the spring.

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Gordon Arnold
New Hampshire

2003 268 Vista ..................................................................Prior: 97 245 Sundowner

Do a search for a recent post on here by me detailing the process. I buy a kit from Camco geared for RVs to bypass the hot water heater so you drain it and no AF gets in it. I also buy another kit that allows the fresh water pump to draw directly from the bottle of pink keeping you from having to flush all the pink out of the fresh water tank from spring. I also buy an adapter that allows me to blow all the excess pink out of the lines via the shore water hookup.

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2007 358 T-5.7GXi IB
Previous Boats
'08 H240, '08 V318, '04 268, '04 225

That's cool, I'll check that out meself. Save a bunch O'pink!

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Gordon Arnold
New Hampshire

2003 268 Vista ..................................................................Prior: 97 245 Sundowner

You definitely need to empty your water heater before you put in your AF I did the newbie mistake of forgetting so I had to put in an extra 8 gallons.

BTW where on a 258 is the water intake at the rear or front of the water holding tank? What I mean is will you get more water out of the tank if your boat has the front up or down?

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97 258 vista 7.4 VP/DP......... 2008 GMC Yukon XL Denali


96 sundowner 5.7 vp/sx (SOLD)