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Good morning/afternoon/evening Carver yacht Owners. My wife Rita and I are new owners of a 1988 Carver 4207 (gas) that is up in the Detroit area. She is a vessel that has been in storage for the past 6-years as the result of the owners death and a contested probate estate that delayed transfer of the vessel to the Grandson, that we purchased her from.
Her tanks were both filled for the storage and Grandson has drained them to empty noting that there was some fine white precipitate that cam out of the bottom of the port tank. As a chemist, with fuels/lubrication experience, I have an idea what he was finding, and will flush the tanks with a few gallons of anhydrous isopropyl alcohol prior to refilling. The Grandson was running the engines off a 5-gallon fuel container for demo purposes. He did not clearly identify how the fuels lines were plumbed. I see a fuels water separator on each engine but there is also a single larger parker made fuel water separator between the two engines that appears to feed the port engine only.

My question is would you have a larger parker filter/segregator going into a secondary (oil filter) type filter separator mounted on the engine itself? And if so, why only to the port engine?

Also, I have been contending with some small old PEX (grey) water leaks at "T" joints. My recent five day trip to the boat was spent finding these leaks and replacing the old PEX lines with new. So far so good with that effort, until I had to remove the ice maker, as the "T" for it to the water dispenser above had a small leak. Only had 2-inches of pipe to work with upon ice maker removal. But managed.

Lastly, do not seem to have electric to the light in engine room, V-Birth outlet and light over vanity in forward head. There is a two gang switch going down steps to Galley of which one turns on galley overhead lights but other (has red light on switch) does not seem to be powered. Can anyone tell me what that switch controls?

I thank everyone in advance for reviewing my post and welcome any constructive comments on my questions. We have to get this old girl up and ready for a 140 mile cruise to he new home port of Cleveland Ohio rather quickly, and appreciate the help of our fellow carver owners. Thank you Admins for providing this user network and to the members of which we are excited to be a part.

Warm Regards,
-Jerry & Rita.

Welcome to the forum....The switch with the led is generally the one that turns the engine room light on and the led is there to remind you.

Good luck with your new boat.

Welcome aboard!
Good luck!

Welcome aboard.
You may want to separate out the different topics in their corresponding sections/topics on the forum. You’re likely to get more responses that way rather than a long post in the introduction section.

Are you sure the Racor isn’t for the generator?

What you have is Qest plumbing. It’s known to leak. I recommend you replace sections at a time with modern lines and quick connect fittings every time you have to do repairs/address leaks.

How did "leather" substitute for "lines"? Damn auto-correct

bud37 wrote:Source of the post Welcome to the forum....The switch with the led is generally the one that turns the engine room light on and the led is there to remind you.

Good luck with your new boat.

That’s the way it is on my boat and FYI, my engine room light is so dim, you can barely see it.
As far as your cabin receptacle, be on the look out for a tripped GFCI receptacle. If your vanity light isn’t working, maybe just a dead bulb or..sometimes there is a switch on the fixture itself in addition to the main switch. Look for it