Impellers life cycle...

[blueroom]

I was wondering if there was something like that on the GS boats. On the G's I can change all 3 ballast impellers out in 15 minutes or so.

[GMLIII]

G-series premium purple Jabscos for under $40 at Am***n or Wak****ers

Good to know much cheaper than Nautique Parts

[Joshua J Rowe]

Bought a used boat and put 2 seasons and almost 100 hours on the cooling impeller. Just replaced it, looked pretty good honestly. Dont buy knock off parts, use the good stuff. I'll be replacing every spring from now on. About 15 minute job for me.

[Shawn Henderson]

Its crazy to see how much dealers charge to change out impellers considering it shouldn't take them more than an hour realistically 30min for most boats. What do boat shops charge per hour for labor?

[scttp]

If you’re even the least bit mechanically inclined, changing the raw water impeller is so insanely easy. If you’ve done it or seen it done, you’d never pay more than 30$ labor to do it. The first time you do it, it’s an hour job. The next times? 20 minutes easy. A seasoned boat mechanic cannot spend more than 10 actual minutes I dare say.


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[nukemustang]

That does seem like a lot of items to have replaced on a new boat. Maybe just bad luck.

$194 seems high to change a ballast impeller. However, I will say that changing the center impeller on a GS20 is easy, but the port and starboard impellers are not so easy. I don’t know if this is true on a GS22, but the oil filter has to be removed on a GS20 to change the starboard impeller. Ugh!

I just changed my engine impeller at 100 hours and it still looked pretty good.

Did you pull the filter off? I undid the three bolts holding the remote filter bracket to the motor and just gently pulled the oil filter assembly out of the way.


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[Evening Shade]

Did you pull the filter off? I undid the three bolts holding the remote filter bracket to the motor and just gently pulled the oil filter assembly out of the way.


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I never did change mine. My rear ballast would fill partially on their own. Someone on here said that it was due to a bad impeller, but my ballast all fill at the in the same amount of time so I decided my impellers were still good.