Posted by chawk25 on 09/14/16 - 5:21 PM
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jamesgt727 wrote:
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The drains were my leaking culprit, and the first thing we addressed for restore. The holes were reamed, foam removed, and filled with the material you make transoms from, then they were drilled, and stainless thru-hulls. The stainless thru-hulls are for decoration.
I've also replaced my drain tubes with thru hulls and caulked with tons of 5200. One in anchor locker and one in the bilge hole where the wires come out. The nice thing about the later is that I can use that thru hull as hook up for a live well. Both of them are caped of with solid brass threaded cap. Another little trick you can try is to get rid of the awkward ground wire in the transom and hook it up to that thru hull. It grounds the fuel tank. Little tricky but it has been done. They use to make thru hulls with bonding screw but they are hard to find now. You can use ss clamp on the shaft of thru hull to clamp the ground wire. That way you have one less hole in the transom and one less wire hanging out there.