Your most likely culprit is a cracked thru hull fitting.
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Originally posted by coates2122Mine leaks pretty good where the POS plastic road holders in the gunells are
</font id=“quote”></blockquote id=“quote”>That’s why I hate liner boats.
put the boat in the water after completely draining bilge
look inside hatch with boat stationary.
if you dont see any water trickling in, get someone to drive the boat while you look.
the most frequent failure location we see is the livewell fittings or hoses.
they usually only leak when in use or underway
Yeah Chris, that is the next move. When we have a spare few hours we are going to take the boat up to Moultrie and do just that. First put it in and tie up to the dock to see if there are any leaks from just sitting static. Then, put some power to her (after untying her from the dock of course) and like you said check the boat over when under way, but not too far from the ramp. I just need an afternoon to do this and we have VBS all this week coming up. So, it’s going to be a while I think.
or the aft motor well access hatch if there is one probably leaks when you hack up, and when you launch the boat
Adam, what Chris said. I had my live well pump housing crack and the bilge pump was coming on pretty regular. Opened the access hatch and saw the water coming in. Closed the seacock and that took care of the leak until I replaced the pump.
Long Enuff
I recommend that you follow ChrisV’s advice before putting water in your boat. If you do put water in your boat, make sure you only put a small amount in the bilge, where water is expected to be. Don’t “fill the boat up” or put ample amounts in it. I’m not assuming that you would do that, so please don’t take this cautionary statement as an insult. I’m assuming that InPursuit means to only put a little water in the bilge (not too much) where water commonly gets anyway. However, I am making this statement anyway because I’ve known of some others to literally fiell theirs up, creating a substantial financial loss, and I’ve known several who recommended such a bad idea to others, so you just never know who’s reading one of these threads and might say, “hey, I’m gonna go fill that boat with water like that guy said” (even if “that guy” didn’t mean for him to do that). I knew a mechanic who ate about $10,000 in damages (on a $30,000 boat) that he caused by filling a customer’s boat with water to look for a leak once–bad idea. The customer had a leak, so the mechanic filled the boat with water to find it. He found the leak and fixed it. The next day, the customer used the boat, and the engine failed. Water was found in the engine and in the oil reservoir, which was bolted to the blige floor (standard by the manufacturer) and had a vent hole in the top. The leak that he had found and repaired was above the resevior. Who knows what happened to the stranded wiring over time? Stranded wires can actually wick water UP like a capillary if even just the tip of the wire touches water, and the water will sit inside the insulation and corrode the wiring over time, which can spell F.I.R.E later, or a long night on the water with no power–not to mention the cost of repair. Terminals, connectors, power steering pumps, harnesses, wires, batteries, fuses, junctions, voids, unintended water traps, oil resevoirs, foam, and other things are just good with being submerged in water–including freshwater. Also, both traile