What Metty said. Pulling the tank often requires a sawzall, foam removal, cursing, tears and ineffective prayers.
Putting the tank back in is only half as bad.
If you're lucky, you have a plastic tank and you won't have to replace it.
What Metty said. Pulling the tank often requires a sawzall, foam removal, cursing, tears and ineffective prayers.
Putting the tank back in is only half as bad.
If you're lucky, you have a plastic tank and you won't have to replace it.
I was selling it anyway, but I sold my last powerboat at a loss rather than change the tank.
Don't regret it, either.
Fuel fill is on that little step above the transom? I’d be shocked if the tank isn’t right in front of the engine in between the stringers. The floors in those boats were usually carpeted plywood, it shouldn’t be that bad to get to.
I guess everyone forgot about this boat. I tried to forget about it. I got nothing done over the winter, and life takes you in new and unexpected directions...
I joked with my friends that I was going to buy a lake house to force myself to fix my boat and.... I bought a lake house to force myself to fix my boat. My first job out of college wasn't something that I was super interested in and most of our business was in hospitality, so I took a pay cut 2 months after I started. I put out a few feelers and accidentally got myself a job at ZF which happens to be conveniently situated next to the lake. I bought a house on the lake about 10 minutes from work.
Post porch ceiling paint job:
My driveway is too steep for my poor little parking brake.
My Blazer crapped out after I bought the place, I had soldered a wire badly and it broke in two, so I rewired the fuse box portion of that LS swap in February. In April I got the boat out of my gracious parents' backyard and into my own driveway and started working on it again.
I don't have tons of pictures, but I spent a lot of time rewiring the worse than questionable facebook boat man electrical engineering and now everything electronic on the boat works again except for the starter. I'm not sure what that issue is, but more on that later.
I recruited one of my new work friends to help me remove my flooring and my gas tank. Unfortunately I don't have any pics of that. The tank was easy to take out. I took up the carpet, took up the floor, took up the tank. It was full of water which explains all of my issues. I cleaned it out really good and let it dry out for a week or so and got any leftover debris out. I pressure washed the fiberglass underneath it too. Put 10 gallons in it and fired it up on the hose this past Wednesday with a Tech buddy.
We took a bunch of videos of it running on the hose but it doesn't really matter because I got it in the water today with a plan to head over to the bar a mile from the launch. Runs pretty good on the throttle now. Put in new seats, new blower, new bilge pump.
Look at that minty fresh paint job! After I figure out my starter woes that's my next order of business. After that, upholstry trim. After that, sell it because I'm tired of this piece of crap and I want a wake boat.
I'm just glad she runs for now. I have a leak at the drain plug but it's slow enough to not have to worry about. I have all the parts to do the bellows, but they're dry as far as I can tell so I'm going to forget about that and sell them with the boat.
Tentative plan is to buy a wake boat this fall after I put another $2-300 of upholstry and wiring into it then sell this one next spring when I can get a few more bucks out of it.
Oh and I got myself a doggy! Here's my doggy and my new back to back reclining lounge seat.
Good for you. Congrats on all accomplished. Time to spend more time on the water, than prepping for it.
Dogs are the best. Congrats on all the changes! They all seem to be pointed in a good direction.
Which lake you on? I hope you weren't the one on Lanier that blew up their boat at Margaritaville's fuel docks this past weekend....
The new wake boats are the bane of my existence when I'm out in my small boat, but they are pretty neat boats. No way I'm paying more for a boat than I did my house though.
ultraclyde said:Which lake you on? I hope you weren't the one on Lanier that blew up their boat at Margaritaville's fuel docks this past weekend....
The new wake boats are the bane of my existence when I'm out in my small boat, but they are pretty neat boats. No way I'm paying more for a boat than I did my house though.
So the way I start the boat since my starter switch doesn't work is to jump two terminals on the starter together with a wrench. Guess who's been cheating death for a year? My God something told me not to go to the gas dock yesterday and I'm so glad I didn't.
Yikes. I hope your blower works on the engine box! I told my wife when I saw the news that I figured it was someone running an inboard without a working vent blower, or they just didn't run it.
Also, another one of the reasons I like outboards and open boats lol.
In reply to ultraclyde :
That was the last thing I fixed on Thursday. Old one was seized, new one popped a fuse when it ate a leaf but it's back working.
I'm looking at getting a 90's sport nautique or starting with a ski nautique and trading up in a few years. Not a big modern wake boat. I don't need a second mortgage, one is plenty for me right now.
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