Where is the best deal on ballast?

Yes sir if you call AWS Oregon City and ask for Spencer or Wake Makers they transfer you to his office. He has a good size room in the retail area right above Brad's office. < service manager >

So i was shopping for 750's today for a buddy and it looks like everyone sells them for $149 now, even Flyhigh themselves lists them for that.

Razz the key is shipping costs. Most shops charge a bunch for shipping. Eds link has free shipping.

Unfortunately the site that Ed linked to only has 1 more bag left. I need 2. :(

The price linked to above is the same price the Fat Sac will be at virtually every Fly High dealer, and lots offer free shipping (buying online will even save you sales tax).

The Fat Sacs you purchase will include one W730 Quick Twist Adapter and 2 W731 Bag Plugs, which you can use in you factory bags once you remove the Flow-Rite fittings.

Then you will just need to purchase two W743 fittings and two W736 fittings for your new rear bags to make everything plug and play (be aware that the factory six minute timers in your boat may not give you enough time to fill the new bigger bags in one cycle.

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Originally Posted by aaroncat

Woah! The WakeMakers store is AWS????

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Not exactly; Spencer is one of the founding partners in WakeMAKERS and he works at Active, so there's some cross over there.

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Originally Posted by Ed G

I kinda doubt you'll be able to swap the fittings from your 450's. They are glued in and once removed, the threads probably can't be trusted.

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Correct, the threads on the bag will be fine, but we do not recommend reusing the Flow-Rite Fittings that came out (often times they are damaged beyond use during the removal process anyway).

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Originally Posted by Ed G

I have posted the instructions here before.

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Email if you need a copy of the instructions, they are included with any order that we know is going in an '09 and newer boat.

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Originally Posted by Ed G

Take your sacs with you to wakemakers and have them see if they can break your old fittings loose.

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We offer this service free of charge (for anyone), you can even ship your bags to us if you would like and we'll remove the fittings and send them back. Contact anyone at the office and they can set it up for you.

I would imagine any local Fly High dealer would perform this service as well.

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Originally Posted by Ed G

Yes, Aaron it's a direct swap from the 450's to the 750's, once you have the correct fittings.

I kinda doubt you'll be able to swap the fittings from your 450's. They are glued in and once removed, the threads probably can't be trusted.

As Jason points out, you will have to adjust the pump timers for the larger bags.

I have posted the instructions here before.

I think your new fill time will be around 7.5 minutes.


Take your sacs with you to wakemakers and have them see if they can break your old fittings loose.

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Sounds like a plan :D <still searching for instructions on adjusting timers>

Awesome, thanks Ed! Is it safe to do this out of the water?

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Originally Posted by Ed G

yes. Your not running the pumps when you do this

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I was a bit worried about the FILL-OFF-EMPTY-OFF- FILL-OFF-EMPTY-OFF-FILL in step 4.

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Originally Posted by Ed G

not to worry.

Doing the flipping back and forth, will cause the ballast control box to go into programming mode and the pump will not operate - at least it shouldn't operate :).

You have to do this procedure for each rear ballast control box.

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I just tried it and the pump surely does operate on step 4 as I suspected. I'm hoping that for the amount of time it is running during this quick switching that it isnt dangerous.