I have a pretty good leak somewhere in the middle of my boat  . I have a 79 charger mini day and my bilge came on every hour this weekend while it was sitting in the river . Not Gushing in but a steady trickle ...... I was planning on gel coating the boat this winter and really dont want to pull my subfloor and interior before summer, Could I get under the boat and try to locate the hole and fill it with 3m marine silicone???  I know its a hole because the retard who owned the boat before me decided to use 2 1/2 tech screws to secure the seats . Thanks

pull the interior out and sit it in the water on the trailer and find out where the leak is coming from.  worst case drill it clean and epoxy glass in a plug, sand it smooth on both sides and do a little touch up gel.  dont wait or else you'll have to deal with water damage problems.  =)

got a few things done hose wise for an hour today...

my ghetto vise



intake to exhuast hoses cut and hooked up.



pump to gate to T to exhaust manifolds...





as i went along i learned a few things.  a) these things dont bend easy.  b) take the amount of space the fitting threads onto the elbows into consideration when cutting.  if u dont, thats like 1/2" extra on each side and your hoses arent going to fit, hell sometimes i couldnt even get them to thread on because they were 1" too long at first. c) dont use painters tape or anything on the fittings.  it just gives the wrench space to move around and scratch up the anodizing. 

still need my water inlets tapped to 1/2" and i gotta find some plugs or maybe have a plate made to block off the thermostat housing that im not using anymore.

have u tried it without the "helper pump"?

welcome to the site.  nice work getting involved into boating at a young age.  i grew up around horsepower, and loud fast motors.  im only 30 but i wasted a lot of years messing around with cars and getting into too much trouble before realizing that you cant have a fast car anymore.  a few mustangs later i bought a SUV with the hopes of buying a "toy" and now i have my 18' boat that i can make as loud and as fast as i care to throw my wallet at.  growing up i spent a lot of time at the lake in flatbottoms and blown daycruisers. 

i dont go to that lake (or any yet) but look forward to reading your project thread.  feel free to start one up and dont forget to keep the pics flowin.

isnt it weird how u need a ford tow vehicle and a chevy boat?  not the other way around.  =)

chop the choke horn off.  who needs that?

do you have a little diagram/write up of how the ignition key is currently connected?  there should be a constant 12v from battery, one to starter solenoid, and then a 12v out to the ignition system.  when the key is off, theres no power to the ignition, when its on the ignition circuit should have 12v, when the key is turned to start it should send 12v to the starter relay/solenoid.

2 sections approx 4 feet in length.  Not sure of the wall thickness, but its more than 1/16" so its not cheap stuff.

Asking $50.  Come make some custom exhaust for your boat and get rid of the ugly rubber tubes. 

before you replace can you at least clean em out and see how they look?

do www.mongorocks.com not mongorocks.com

ww theres lots of butts.

i thought the expedition got stolen. you got it back 

yeah it was spotted that morning by street sweeping with a stolen plate so they called it in for towing, but by the time the tow truck showed up it was gone.  then they found the guy like 4 days later driving it around.  nothing stolen, nothing damaged.  kinda weird.  he did burn up 3/4 tank of gas and it cost like $600 to get it back after multiple trips to dmv/theft yard.  s

am i the only person who found themselves screaming at the monitor when the driver took his helmet off? what an idiot!

i didnt scream but i did think "hey maybe you'll need that later..." then i thought when they were towing it downstream that they stuffed the nose.