My 2006 Vista 378 is equipped with Fireboy-Xintex’s fresh and waste tank monitor model LLM-2. During the ’06 and ’07 seasons, the dealer replaced the gauge twice and the sender unit three times.
During the 2008 boating season, the level in the waste tank would routinely be inoperative. I removed and thoroughly cleaned the “sender” regularly. It would work for only a day or so. Surely, it was not designed that the sender would have to be removed and cleaned so frequently.
I see other tank monitor products on the market (e.g.
http://www.raritaneng.com/products/acce ... nitor.html) where the “readers” are placed on the outside of the tank. While I see a lot of advantages with this approach, I am concerned with having to fish the wires back to the head where the gauge would be located. Has anyone attempted to do so? One approach would be to attach the “new” wires to the old in the engine compartment and attempt to pull them through to the head. It is likely, however, they will get snagged somewhere along the way.
Any suggestions? Have others encountered similar issues?