"Every boat's got it's own personality, eh?"
Very true!
Do you have enough access around your engine to clean off the oil and
inspect with a inspection mirror?
Worked for my when my timing gear cover gasket was leaking.
MMC

"Terry Spragg" wrote in message
...
MMC wrote:

I think people are naturally assuming it is a much more difficult
problem
that getting water out of an open boat (as your original post indicates)
since you wrote and asked advice.

"Rick" wrote in message
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Peggie Hall wrote:

wrote:


There's several gallons of sea water in my aluminum bayrunner and I
can't figure out how to get it out. When I'm in the water on full
throttle the boat doesn't tilt enough to push all the water to the
back
where the bilge pump is located.

Even on the trailer with it fully tilted up on the boat ramp I can't
empty it out. It's not flooded but there's several gallons and I'd
like to get it out. Does anyone have any suggestions?


A shop vac or dinghy bailer (manual pump), a bucket, a big sponge and
some manual labor.

Even if the bilge pump could get rid of most of it, bilge pumps can't
get all the water...some runs back down the hose when the pump shuts
off
that should always be pumped out/mopped up each time you put the boat
away. If you don't, it'll sit and stagnate into a stinky "primordial
soup" in your bilge.


Am I missing something here? My Bilge is self-Draining when the boat is
out of the water.

R.


Mine drains well with the plug out too, except that the engine bilge
limber hole is plugged to contain dripping oil and stop it moving to
the bilge under the cabin.

So the cabin bilge doesn't drain that way, not that it would because
it's up hill from the cabin bilge to the prop and engine compartment
bilge.

So I occasionally need to pump a gallon or two of what can only be
condensation and elusive overhead drips accumulated under the cabin,
which is not enough to start the main bilge pump until the water is
an inch or more deep in the cabin, as the main bilge is only an inch
deep and wraps closely under the concave cabin sole. Our cabin sole
is like a submarine's in that no matter how the boat rocks and
rolls, you always can stand in the bottom of the boat, like it was a
sewer pipe, or submarine. The engine compartment bilge gets pumped
by hand into a pop bottle for oil seperation from packing box drips
and recycling, as every day of moderate engine use, it drips half a
liter of oil from I can't figure out where. It's an atomic two, any
experience out there?

With the engine apart in the cabin now, hopefully by spring it will
no longer leak oil, and then I can re-open the limber hole and pump
clean prop shaft drips normally, but by hand, as the automatic bilge
pump will never get that last gallon. That we get with a manual
suction line snuck down under the lowest point under the cabin.

Every boat's got it's own personality, eh?

Terry K