When you need her, you need her. Peggy to the rescue - I hope.

We have a Raritan PHE II head that has worked fine since owning this
boat - almost 2 years.

First sign of trouble was that the head would not evacuate in the 'dry'
position, but we found if we switched to 'flush' for a couple of
strokes, and then back to 'dry' that that would make it start working
correctly again. This happened more and more frequently.

Now, I'm not getting evacuation at all in the 'dry' postition, but it
does still seem to evacuate in the 'flush' postition, but that doesn't
do me any good because it is also filling the bowl at the same time,
and I can't get the bowl empty.

I've used my inflatable pump to force air down the vent from the
outside trying to be sure it's unclogged. Can't really tell if it is
that way - next step will be removing the vent hose from the tank and
pumping air to the outside - that should give the answer.

Do those symptoms give me any clues where to start? I really don't
have time for this now, but obviously it must be solved (we live
aboard) - Magic wand?

Thanks,

Mike.