04 VLX Center Ballast

The 04 Malibu VLX boats center ballast fill automatically when sitting in the water. The reason they do this is the tank below the water line. Yes the pump is off.

What was the fix for this? I thought I got it fixed last year but it's doing it again and I want it fixed.

yep, it's annoying.

I've been able to mostly remedy mine by adjusting the fill hose.

In the floor is the center access port, in there is a pump. That is the fill pump for the center tank. The hose leaves the pump and travels under the floor to the driver's foot compartment. In front of the kick board and on the left wall the hose comes out of the floor, extends upwards, loops back down and returns to the center compartment and enters the tank. That loop has to be above the water level. I simply adjusted mine so it's higher. It sometimes will siphon full on it's own.

My buddies 07 has some kind of fitting at the top of the loop. It's some kind of air bleed valve. I think it breaks the siphon. I was going to hit the dealer up and see if they'd pitch me one under warranty...just haven't done that yet.