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Ok...this may be a dumb question but before I go crazy trying to find this thing I want to gather some opinions.

My genset stopped pumping water and the obvious culprit was the impeller. I pulled the cover off this afternoon and sure enough it's time for a new impeller. One vane was completely gone and another was half gone. Sitting in the housing was the piece of a half vane. The full vane is nowhere to be found. I pulled off the hose connecting the impeller housing to the heat exchanger (or wherever it goes) and it wasn't sitting in there either. At this point I don't know if it's hung up somewhere in the genset or it was possibly broken up into little pieces and worked it's way through the system and out the exhaust or what. My guess it was broken up into little pieces as the outlet looks too small for the vane to fit through....but then again, me and Murphy's Law don't always get along so well.

What's my next step? Put in the new impeller, fire it up, and hope water comes out the exhaust or start pulling things apart to find this little piece of rubber?

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'01 Vista 298

Wealso lost the genny impeller at the start of the season and couldn't find all the pieces either.

Decided to just put the new impeller in and fire it up and all works well.

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2006 Four Winns 278 Vista.
Volvo Penta 8.1L, Duo Prop,
Kohler 5E Generator.

After getting my service bill for my genny....I need to be at least doing the impeller/oil change on it myself. WOW

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Current Boat:
2004 Sea Ray 320 Sundancer "Nauti Luvin'"

Previous Boats:
1999 298 Vista "Seas The Day"
2008 H200SS "Nauti Luv"
2006 Tahoe Q4

Considering its no more complicated than a law mower and takes all of 30 minutes to change both assuming easy access , yes definitely do.

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Former owner of:
1996 Four Winns Horizon 200 5.8L VP
2006 Four Winns Horizon 260 8.1L VP
2007 Sea Ray 290 Sundancer

Current boat
2004 Sea Ray 290 Sun Sport Twin 350 Mags