Steve Drew

The pleated silver thing on the far right is a K&N air filter. The separator is the tall cannister on the left. I'm wondering if there has been an oil spill previously and the cartridge wasn't changed. is the turbocharger interesting as a potential source of trouble, or you're just into turbochargers?

Thanks again..stop press. Tonight curiosity got the better of me and I removed the bilge filter/seperator. It was absolutely thick with oil and ponged a bit too so I think it may have been that way for a while. I got the boat in July this year and have done @24hrs cruising. I shall replace the cartridge asap but need to identify it as there are no markings. It looks to me like a Wavestream system 1 unless anyone knows different?

Thanks for the comments. In this library picture you can clearly see the holes in the small square section on the top of the intake. This is where the water is coming out... I'm starting to think that this is normal and maybe to relieve excess pressure and that there is possibly an airlock in the system. I just can't find any reference to it in the manual or any other source. The white band around the red part of the body is where the pump locks into the body on a bayonet type fitting and I get very fine jets here, although it feels fully locked. The body is undamaged.

Not sure but I did buy on their reputation I must admit. There are two recessed holes in the top where the plastic is thinner and I wondered if it is to relieve over pressure and protect the pump? I shall have to remove it for a closer look. Real problem is finding any product information..

I recently installed a Rule LP900 manual bilge pump with a float switch, and all ran well, other than I noticed some fine jets of water escaping around the seal where the pump locks into the pump body. I wasn't too concerned, but more recently it was operating and I saw water burst through the top of the intake nozzle. Now, some water entering the intake escapes through the holes in the top back into the bilge. I cannot find any product information relating to this. Has anyone encountered this before?