Good morning all,
We started having a strange Head issue about two days ago and I'm a little baffled by this one. Looking for some collective wisdom from the forum.
The boat is a 2001 Catalina 310. Two people live aboard full time, so the head gets a lot of use. It's a Raritan PH Superflush manual head connected by about 8 feet of hose to a holding tank that is discharged through a macerator.
With liquid in the bowl if you flush in dry mode, nothing happens. The handle moves up and down way to easy and nothing leaves the bowl. No vacuum is created. If you switch to wet mode then water comes and and will leave the bowl. So currently the only way to empty the bowl is to switch to wet mode, pump 3-4 times, switch to dry where you will get about 6 flushes before it starts not creating a vacuum again. So you switch back and forth 3-4 times to empty the bowl.
The first thing I suspected was a clogged vent but that appears to be fine. The hose and head is approximately 1 year old and I don't believe there is any blockages.
I am beginning to suspect the O ring on the plunger maybe bad and I need to replace it.
I was hoping to get some feedback before I bust into my one rebuild kit. Currently in Bequia in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines and the chandleries here are small and don't carry Raritan spares.
Thanks,
Jesse
We started having a strange Head issue about two days ago and I'm a little baffled by this one. Looking for some collective wisdom from the forum.
The boat is a 2001 Catalina 310. Two people live aboard full time, so the head gets a lot of use. It's a Raritan PH Superflush manual head connected by about 8 feet of hose to a holding tank that is discharged through a macerator.
With liquid in the bowl if you flush in dry mode, nothing happens. The handle moves up and down way to easy and nothing leaves the bowl. No vacuum is created. If you switch to wet mode then water comes and and will leave the bowl. So currently the only way to empty the bowl is to switch to wet mode, pump 3-4 times, switch to dry where you will get about 6 flushes before it starts not creating a vacuum again. So you switch back and forth 3-4 times to empty the bowl.
The first thing I suspected was a clogged vent but that appears to be fine. The hose and head is approximately 1 year old and I don't believe there is any blockages.
I am beginning to suspect the O ring on the plunger maybe bad and I need to replace it.
I was hoping to get some feedback before I bust into my one rebuild kit. Currently in Bequia in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines and the chandleries here are small and don't carry Raritan spares.
Thanks,
Jesse
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