1987 Supra Saltare

[Hematoma]

hematoma what specific ones at depot? They need to be swing check valves. I have the brass ones right now. Haven't used them yet but they do seal well. $4/ea. My local wake dealer had plastic ones for $20/ea. Ouch.

I cant remember, I did get on Lowes home improvments website and found some ball check valves for 6 dollars. They take 2 psi to open so I'm gonna pick them up today. I figure my pumps should be able to produce 2 psi of pressure. I know this ballest has been an on going PITA, seems like everytime I take the boat out I find an improvment I can make to the system, it works great but not perfect.

[Hematoma]

Hey Mikey after thinking about it. I think I bought the wrong things the first go around. Doh no wonder they didnt work. Anyways gonna try the ones I listed above today and reroute some hoses.

[wotan2525]

Hematoma -- Everything I've been reading says you want to avoid those ball valves and go with the swing ones. 2psi doesn't sound like much to me, though. If they work.... let us know!

[87SunSportMikeyD]

No don't get any spring or ball check valve that takes ANY PSI to open!!! These are just your overflows and they won't close when you are draining, then they won't drain flat.

Swing check valves only! The ones that I got are brass swing checks and I read they are OEM on older Nautique systems. Sounds good to me!

[Hematoma]

Lol I dont have a problem with my vents/overflows draining the bags. My overflows are ran in a way that they dont cause any syphon effect. I ended up buying 12.00 brass check valves that have a spring and a rubber grommet that keeps water from backing up and out my fills and emptys. I got pics coming in my O.G. thread.

[wotan2525]

Alright.... boat is super dirty and has a lot of "tree-junk" in it. The vinyl is actually in really clean shape but I wanted to post up some pics. Obviously... the battery box is sort of a disaster.... I've got a friend who owes me that is supposed to come clean it up one of these days but I'm sort of an out-of-sight out-of-mind and function over fashion in these hidden areas. You can see my on-board charger and blue-sea add-a-battery.

[wotan2525]

And here's a few more.... bench seat was just finished last weekend. (I should take a picture of what used to be there.)

Not the best pictures of the surf wake (angle makes it look sort of small) but it's waist high and in the second picture he is pretty much as far back as you can go while still having enough push to catch up.

[wotan2525]

By my estimation, once I get my ballast plumbed in I should have ~800-900lbs in back and ~400 up front. All hidden. All on switches. And still have enough storage for anchors, orange-vests, fire extinguisher, dock lines and my throwable.

[Salty87]

that looks great. did you do the vinyl? nice job either way.

i was just telling saltare inverts that i like his bench and now you've got one.

i'm starting to get a little vinyl envy.

edit: looked at the pics again. is it me or does the bench convert into a large sunpad?

[Hematoma]

Nice boat you got Wotan, I wish I could have found a Salty when I was lookin. Maybe that will be my next O.G. project.