Lavac Head Install Pictures

Head access door

Dear Ted, Yes, I can laugh now but while trying to get the hose connections made there were other, less pleasant sounds out of my mouth! BTW, right at the end and quite by accident I found that the best way to warm and bend the relucatnt head hose was by leaving it with a regular 75W light bulb in a simple (cheap) reflector fitting under it for a while!

There are two Y valves: The first is just under the pump visible in the picture and selects either from the head or the holding tank. Fluids go up through the loop and on the way down encounter the second Y valve which is either to the tank or overboard. Lots of choices with little fuss.

The access door has a piece of 1/4" ply glued to the back of the teak cover board. the 1/4" ply just fits the opening so the ply, not the bolts, prevents the cover from moving up, down, or sideways. The bolts go through the teak cover, through the ply, and then through a 3/4" X 3/4" board which is longer than the opening so that it acts as a clamp when the bolts are tightened. Complicated to describe but simple to construct.

Jay, PS 37, Kenlanu

arisatx said:

Jay:
Congratulations - I bet you're glad that project is "behind" you. :laugher Thanks for the pictures.

Any pictures of the access door you had to create to remove your old throne?

So it's plumbed so everything always goes to the holding tank and from there can be either discharged overboard or pumped out?

I've read Lavac owners' raves about their head. Let us know how it works out.

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