Hello,
I own a 1994 SeaRay 240 Overnighter and I have a question about removing the drain plug. While attempting to remove the drain plug from my boat last fall while in storage, the edges of the drain plug became so stripped that I was unable to remove it. To prevent the boat from filing with water during the winter, I decided to drill a hole in the middle of the drain plug for the water to escape.
Now that I'm getting my boat ready for the summer, I have a question about the best way to remove the drain plug:
a) option 1 appears to be drill out as much of the drain plug as possible and then gently hammer out the remaining plug (it is a soft material, so I assume it is brass?). Then I can maybe use a 'tap' to redo or repair the threads in the event that I damaged any of the threads while drilling or removing.
b) option 2, if you look at the attached picture (which is similar to my boat), I don't know what will happen if I try to remove the 3 screws and remove the whole assembly? Is this the easiest method, or will removing this create a bunch of work, e.g. will I then need to get in the engine compartment to properly repair / remove everything?
I guess I just worried about what will happen if I try option b vs just going with option 1 which seems to be pretty straight forward.
Thanks in advance!
I own a 1994 SeaRay 240 Overnighter and I have a question about removing the drain plug. While attempting to remove the drain plug from my boat last fall while in storage, the edges of the drain plug became so stripped that I was unable to remove it. To prevent the boat from filing with water during the winter, I decided to drill a hole in the middle of the drain plug for the water to escape.
Now that I'm getting my boat ready for the summer, I have a question about the best way to remove the drain plug:
a) option 1 appears to be drill out as much of the drain plug as possible and then gently hammer out the remaining plug (it is a soft material, so I assume it is brass?). Then I can maybe use a 'tap' to redo or repair the threads in the event that I damaged any of the threads while drilling or removing.
b) option 2, if you look at the attached picture (which is similar to my boat), I don't know what will happen if I try to remove the 3 screws and remove the whole assembly? Is this the easiest method, or will removing this create a bunch of work, e.g. will I then need to get in the engine compartment to properly repair / remove everything?
I guess I just worried about what will happen if I try option b vs just going with option 1 which seems to be pretty straight forward.
Thanks in advance!