Water in pontoon
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Water in pontoon
I discovered water in my toons today. Don't know how long its been in there but how do you get it out? Thanks.
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Re: Water in pontoon
I have a small unreachable leak in my rear section and one in the front log. I drilled 1/8" hole and a ss screw with a rubber washer. after each trip, I pull screws.
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McAlester, Oklahoma
Home lake is Tenkiller
Re: Water in pontoon
I had stress cracks where the brackets attached the deck to the toons on all 4 corners. took it to a welding shop and got it repaired. Until I did that I used a siphon hose with squeeze ball to siphon out the toons after each trip. I would raise the front end up so the water all drained to the back. There were pipe plugs in the top I could remove and put in the siphon hoses.
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Re: Water in pontoon
I found a Bushmaster .223 with a 50 round mag, then a few gallons of JB Weld works wonders...
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Re: Water in pontoon
[quote="Bryden24shp"]I found a Bushmaster .223 with a 50 round mag, then a few gallons of JB Weld works wonders...[/quote]
Entertaining too.
Entertaining too.
My rebuild thread.
http://www.pontoonforums.com/viewtopic.php?f=16&t=24807
http://www.pontoonforums.com/viewtopic.php?f=16&t=24807
Re: Water in pontoon
so i had stress cracks near the transom where the previous owner trailer the heavy i/o with no support.
as water would wash over the tunes they slowly filled with water over the day of boating, about 15-20 gallons on the port side much less on the other.
i have a little advantage as my baffles have a void near the bottom of each allowing the tube to drain front to back.
this issue has been welded and repaired but while it was an issue i solved this by installing bilge pumps in the tubes,
in the top of my tubes about every 4 feet there is a 3/4 inch threaded plug, i used a 3/4 inch threaded nipple, soldered a male hose barb on one end, i used 1/2 inch id rubber hose and threaded this down into the hole, at the other end i used a 90 elbow and a check valve, then used the same rubber hose to attach to 2 12v self priming pumps and necessary through hulls to get the water out, all of this is above the under-skinning and below the deck so its all hidden, i put inline filter to keep any trash out of the pumps. the system worked great.
the new console has a bilge pump rocker, although it is not used now as the patches are keeping the toons dry. the pumps are still operable and will come in handy should i damage a tube.
as water would wash over the tunes they slowly filled with water over the day of boating, about 15-20 gallons on the port side much less on the other.
i have a little advantage as my baffles have a void near the bottom of each allowing the tube to drain front to back.
this issue has been welded and repaired but while it was an issue i solved this by installing bilge pumps in the tubes,
in the top of my tubes about every 4 feet there is a 3/4 inch threaded plug, i used a 3/4 inch threaded nipple, soldered a male hose barb on one end, i used 1/2 inch id rubber hose and threaded this down into the hole, at the other end i used a 90 elbow and a check valve, then used the same rubber hose to attach to 2 12v self priming pumps and necessary through hulls to get the water out, all of this is above the under-skinning and below the deck so its all hidden, i put inline filter to keep any trash out of the pumps. the system worked great.
the new console has a bilge pump rocker, although it is not used now as the patches are keeping the toons dry. the pumps are still operable and will come in handy should i damage a tube.
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