SoCal Jet Boats
Tech Talk => Projects => Topic started by: YellowJacket on January 23, 2016, 11:16:55 AM
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I was wondering if anybody has any suggestions on how to fix my fuel tank mounting issues. The tanks currently bolt through the bottom of the boat and had one rip out last season. What would be the correct way to mount them. Any help is appreciated. Thanks
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I welded L bracket tabs and fiberglassed over those.
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Ok thanks, you don't by chance have a picture?
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Round tanks? Got a picture of what you have going on?
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This is what it looks like now.
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Maybe this will do it.
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I would remove the tanks and glass in a beveled piece of with a threaded piece of aluminum bar stock countersunk into it.
Not only will look awesome, but virtually bulletproof.
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Ok thanks, I'm trying to picture that.
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Ok thanks, I'm trying to picture that.
I was looking for some pictures, but keep getting distracted. (Trying to get my floors done in the dining room lol)
Basically make a piece of bar stock drilled and tapped for the mounting holes in your brackets. Then make a hardwood plywood cover with the bar stock countersunk into the wood and bevel the outer edges and literally sandwich the metal between the bottom of the hull and the new wood piece.
Then laminate the whole thing right to the bottom of the hull.
Screw a piece of Crayon into the holes of the bar stock to keep from getting contaminated with resin.
Done it a few times before, or will raise the tanks about 3/8" to 1/2", so make sure the necks and tasks will still fit under the deck.
GT
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Thanks GT, its making a little more sense. Good luck with the floors, I just got done with mine. :beer: