Upgrading Heads

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Upgrading Heads

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We want to replace the heads on our 1995 Carver 440AC, Can someone please offer an idea for good replacements that work well.

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Welcome to the forum......can you say what heads you have now...electric macerator type or vacuflush type ?
FWIW.....The above is just my opinion.
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We have the old macerator type, we are looking at vacuflush or will gravity work? Thank you for the welcome so glad this forum is here!
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If you have macerators, you can't just change to vacuflush heads. You need to also install the vacuflush tanks with vac pumps etc. probably several $ K.
I have jabsco quiet flush heads on my 355. other than replacing the duckbills every few years, I have not had any problems.
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I have vacuflush now in my 405 but in my previous boat a trojan f32 I installed a raritan marine elegance head and it worked great. May check them out.
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