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as far as i could read, in the dark, 24m7 and a deka 24n6 but it could have been m6.  i know the other was was 24m7.  what are they?

i have, in my 1986 c34, two different batteries - a deka 24m7 and a deka 24n6.  knowing that nothing is normal, on our boats, is this normal, to have two different sizes of batteries?  is there a manufacturer to stay away from?  i see no reason not to get deka again but i don't know any better either.  thanks

becki kain

as far as i knew, just the diesel tank.  but i haven't looked back there, recently.  and that's interesting about a tank in the main salon.  i just have my bilge there and open space, with the holding tank taking up half of the port side, main salon storage.

so portside and aft?  for me, my aft wall has the pedistal hardware and a little hanging locker

are they both in the wall?  my drawing, from catalina, shows the tank i have, about where it is, i think and my diesel tank is in the port side wall of the aft berth

so yes, i guess my tanks are reversed, from the drawing, but if there was never a soft bladder, from catalina, then i guess there's no way of knowing why the valves were reversed, or even why the hard tank, in the aft, was changed out.  can someone send me a picture of their hard aft tank?  it seems like a 40 gallon hard tank would take up a lot of space, as opposed to the bladder.

thanks

becki kain
hull 99, 1986

i can't attatch the pictures since they are too large but i can send,if anyone wants to see a bladder tank.  so i closed the thru hull and tried to put pink through the since, so it would flush into the head, and just got water. now i'm hiring someone to try to fix this mess.

thanks.  that is what i had been taught too and my friend was arguing with me about it.  then the tanks seemed reversed so nothing is done yet.  1 gallon in each tank, 1 in head ?  what about the sump?

but which valves are which, on your boat? 

c34, 1986, hull 99.  according the drawing, from catalina, my inside (yellow lever) should be the front (smaller, hard) tank and my outside (white, twist, round valve) should be after (soft bladder/40 gallons i think), but it seems, from trying to winterize tonight, that is reversed.  can someone lend an idea?  also, when you winterize your water system, do you fully drain the water out of the tanks, then put in a gallon of pink each tank, run, one at a time until pink comes out?  my friend seemed to think i should keep some water in my tanks then put pink in, and i disagreed.

thanks

becki kain
detroit

i am terrified to ever turn the boat on again :-(

when i get to my boat, i will.  and no one comes to detroit.

no idea.  the mount bolts were tight

my 1986 c34 hull 99 did not come with a coolent reservoir and after my impeller blew itself apart, my mechanic said i needed one.  dutifully paid for him to hang one off the door, in the head.  he said to keep it filled so I did. it somehow managed to empty itself, over the winter, while the boat was 10 feet in the air. new mechanic says it's not ingress, it's for egress - it is set up as an overflow for when the engine is running and if i fill it, it will be too much and overflow, hence the antifreeze all over the floor.  any idea how i tell who is right? 

it wasn't the motor mounts.  they were tight.  mechanic and "dad" thought it was the belt.  mechanic tightened.  we'll see how it goes

thank you to all