leaking riveted starcraft ('82 MR180)

redneck joe

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I know a guy that wasn’t terribly concerned about speed and just peened all the rivets and then coated the bottom with truck bed liner.
He’s been leak free ever since and has no concerns with beaching the boat.
I'm already less than 50% on the horsepower but would not be opposed to that should I find a bigger.
 

redneck joe

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Just thought of something. My wire wheel is steel, will that be an issue?
 

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I would use SS.....brass is ok as long as all the strands are removed....brass and aluminum are born enemies.
 

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borrowed a friends creeper and just spent a good hour under there. Been about 5 different sealants applied to fix this issue.

Previous post i asked about the inside hull chines and keel about being seamed above the chine/keel/ I took y screwdriver to the weep holes and feels the hull is stamped and only joint is the outside chine to the sides of the boat?

found a couple more missing rivet heads but no flex in them, i will blind rivet anyway

the hull at transom appears to have had the boat launch onto the ramp a couple three times. One non flexing missing head and about 20 chewed up heads. I'm prob going to flexseal that to see what happens as well as sika caulk up the outside chines. I've got them brushed clean. I think i'll do the siki first, run and see if any positive results before I flex seal. I kinda want to know where prior to pulling the floor sometime in the future. Headed for another surgery in Dec so floor project is not happening soon.
 

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Never got a response on the keel being a seam or stamped sheet but I did find some damage at that area about under the helm so that got a good dose of sika 291. I also did the seam where the bottom meets the side. All was stripped to bare aluminum with the stainless wheel. Same with transom seam but as I take on water when running that should not be it but I was in the groove. Quick spray of flex seal and the keel under transom. I also found a couple rivets up front with popped heads studs seemed solid but fixed anyway.


I know I need to pull floor and Yada Yada but now I not the time. Life has different plans for me so trying to stem the flow.
 

redneck joe

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Well, nonr of that worked... guess I'll just have to wait until I swap the floor out.
 
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