Galley Faucet Replacement

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In my '86 Carver Mariner, the original faucet needs to be replaced. It looks like your normal kitchen sink faucet, single handle. I have bought a new one to replace it from Lowe's, but have some questions before I try and climb under the sink.

I didn't really look closely at the water pipes under it. There is a hot and cold pipe, but more precisely, what kind of connections are on them? Will the normal tube connections on the new faucet work or will I be looking for some other way to connect the hoses? Anyone done this before?

On the new faucet there are braided hoses, about a half inch with female screw on connectors. I didn't look to see what is on the boat, but anyone know if these will just connect up or will I need to fashion something together to connect to the gray and black hoses?
 
I changed out all of them in my 1987 Voyager last year with exactly what you have. Mine connected right up with no problem. Now, as old as my boat is I don't know if my connections were factory original or if the PO changed them at some point in time. But, whatever, my Lowe's faucets hooked up without a hitch.

Bob
 
Cool, fingers crossed, it will be that easy. I will check back after I get to looking at it this weekend. Hoping for a simple project...

Craig
 
Now that I climbed under the sink, I found that the current faucet tubes have a female connector and the tubes coming up from the bottom from the boat lines also have a female connector and in between is a male to male connector. Each side is a different width. My quick measurements looks like the boat tubes are 3/4 inch and the lines from the old faucet are 1/2 inch. I believe the new faucet has 1/4 inch female, so all I need is a different male to male connector. A lot easier than I had expected.

Can anyone confirm the tube connectors inside the boat are 3/4 inch. I have seen the same gray connectors to the water heater, water pump etc., but without dismantling things first, hard to say what size they are...
 
Not sure specifically about your year and model, but was surprised recently to find that my hot water heater leads were in fact 1/2 inch even though they measured exactly 3/4" outer diameter at the threads. Called Flair-It and they said the diameter goes by inner diameter not outer, if that helps at all. Don't forget to use a round of teflon plumbers tape on the threads.
 
Got the plumbers tape at the ready. The male to male connector on the side connected to the boat tubes was showing a bit and I measured 3/4 inch, albeit I was a little bit away from it as it is hard to climb in there, but eyeballing it up looked like 3/4. Guess the best way is to remove them and get exact matches (once we drain the water of course).
 
What are the centers on holes. Does your new one match up? I did my Mainship (1987) a few years ago and I had 4" centers. I went with a bar faucet so I would have a nice goose neck and it gave me more room to work around the sink.

Niles
 
Do you mean the hole where the faucet feeds into from the top? I have not measured it, but from just looking at it, it looks like a match. If I had to add something from the bottom though, it wouldn't be hard and plenty of neck length to work with with the new faucet.

It currently has a single "bar" faucet (or goose neck) and we are replacing it with another single bar but the new one has a pull out on it to make it easier for doing dishes etc. So only a single hole for everything to go down through so I am not planning on a new hole and I think the width should be fine.
 
"centers" is the term used for most 2 handle faucets and it is the distance between the two holes were the hot and cold lines conect.

My wife and me were just talking about this subject on Sunday in that we wish we had a spayer on ours. I took a quick look on the net looking for bar faucets with a spayer but didn't find any.

Good luck
Niles
 
Ok, our old one and new one are both single handle faucets with a single hole through the counter. We went to Lowe's and found it.

So I am not sure what you mean by a bar faucet then, but they had two handle faucets with a separate sprayer to the side. We went with a single handle the neck of the faucet is a pull out sprayer all in one.
 
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