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Taking on water
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As Smiley said above, the battery hatch should be weatherstripped somehow to minimize water intrusion, I just purchased a 202 I/O 2 weeks ago and day one I noticed this to be a problem, even coming in from a swim the water will run right down through the hatch and into the battery/trim pump pan....and that pan doesn't drain, obviously you don't want the possibility of trim pump oil or battery fluids getting into the bilge area to be pumped into the lake, but a sealed gasket like they have on the cooler/live well area would be sufficient enough to minimize the water. My dealer says that he ordered up some vinyl gasket from Hurricane so he could affix some of it for me as soon as I get it in for my 20hr break in oil change.
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Your i/o is possible the culprit the movement of the boat while docked is sucking water thru your wate pump inlet try you i/o in up out of water positionDave wrote:
My 2001 Model 217 I/O Deck Boat is taking on about 3-4 gal of bilge water per day sitting at covered dock. No rain. What are the most common leak possibilities?[:@] -
I had a leak at the hose clamp connection on the live well pump on my 237 SD. The pump is below the water line on the stern so if the hose gets loose you will take on water. Also the reason the hose worked itself loose was because the hose that runs from the forward livewell tank to the rear pump was cut to short when it was installed, requiring it to be stretched off the bottom of the bilge. Normal boat operation working the stretched hose run connection loose. You might also try shutting off the ball valves to isolate leaks in other portions of the hose.
