Inside area of engine compartment is rotting...

[PatriotPhantom]

Re: Inside area of engine compartment is rotting...

Hi Glenn,

I'm a novice too, so don't take anything I say as gospel, just a logical opinion. The rot in the plywood, over the tank, could be because it was cut into and left open?

The image above is of the fuel tank, the board above it has been missing a long time now, since someone cut a hole in it to attempt to move the inlet over some to make room for an alternator that would not fit.

How long has the part, over the end of the fuel tank, been cut off?

Peter

 

[glennj3]

Re: Inside area of engine compartment is rotting...

Hi Peter,
Well, I am not sure how the wood came out from the sleeping compartment and into the engine compt. Would think the middle portion in the sleeping compt (which is made to remove with several wood screws) just protruded under the back wall and over the tank, it was not sealed, it just protruded out over the tank to keep people from stepping on the tank ? It just wore off and broke off through the years.

Know, I did notice one of the drain pipes from the very rear of the deck, port side (drains water from the deck over the engine into a hose that drains down into the engine compartment and out the back of the boat into the lake) has a hole in it about the size of a large quarter. The hole is at the upper end where the hose is going strait down from the deck but some water could have been leaking out of it into that side of the engine compartment (particularly when I wash off the back of the boat). From there it could have just carried itself on toward the front of the boat (sleeping quarters)