Jabsco Marine Toilet - Replacing Joker Valve and Lubricating with Salad dressing
Channel: Mothership Adrift Travel and Sailing
Date: 2018-05-04

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Replacing a Joker Valve on a Jabsco Marine Toilet.  

These maintenance video blogs aren't to show anyone HOW to do a repair or replacement job - they're just how WE did it with the equipment, resources, tools and skills available at the time. Some systems are unique to our type of boat - Amel Super Maramu - or some of you may know it as the SV Delos Boat.. yes it's the same make and model.

So please use the comment section below to add any expert advice or experiences so we can all benefit and save money and time by repairing and maintaining our own equipment.

TRANSCRIPT

What's your job today Woody?

It's the toilet - we've got a leakage on the toilet. A leakage?! I'm trying to find the right spare part by taking other ones apart. OK.  You've got lots of spare parts there Woody!

I'm replacing the Joker Valve which is a fairly simple job to do but it's rather unpleasant because you've got to flush fresh water into the pipe because there's always some backflow as you take the Joker valve off. So whatever's in the holding tank comes back out. So I've flushed a load of fresh water through, taken the pipe off. When I took the joker valve out I found that there's a lot of calcium deposits in there so I'll scrape that out with a screwdriver as best I can and give it a clean-out.  So that's calcium look.

Yes that's what they say you have to bang it don't you? And now I'm just putting the new joker valve back in. 

So the new joker valve is back in so we shouldn't have any more backfill from the toilet hopefully. So no more unpleasant smells.

You've got to make sure you get the right part because there's so many different models of jabsco toilets. If you don't get the right part it doesn't work so luckily they kind of do this simple diagram on the front so you don't get the wrong part and you can identify them all with the label so the different models have got different labels. And it's
quite an expensive service pack so you don't want to get it wrong. 

Ok I think we're good to go! What we do is we have a salad dressing. So we've got a good olive oil, we've got a nice white wine vinegar and squeeze of lemon so you can use this actually with your salad as well. So we'll squeeze it, squirt it down there just a couple sprays and then the olive oil will lubricate it, the vinegar will keep the calcium at bay and the lemon just kind of just takes this the smell away from the the vinegar otherwise it smells like a fish and chips shop.

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