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    Water in bilge pump screw holes

    Yeah, it's a wood core and drilled all of the holes a little bigger. Two of them had really dark particles, think that's dry rot? Was planning to seal all of the holes with 6-ten. Thinking that should keep the air out so the rot fungus won't spread or at least slow it down?
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    Water in bilge pump screw holes

    Ok, thanks for your replies. That's good news to hear. Sounds like it is not that big of a deal then.
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    Water in bilge pump screw holes

    I have a Monterey 262 cruiser and noticed the screws holding the bilge pumps were not sealed with anything. So I removed all of the screws holding both bilge pumps as I was planning to re-seal the screws with 5200 and that's when I discovered two different old screw holes had not been sealed and...
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    Garboard drain cover

    Some moisture is good. It actually increases the strength of the wood. Trees are wet. It wouldn't be worth it to repair. I did the ping test with a hammer and it's solid so hopefully it will be good for several years. Previous owner stored it in water but I'm keeping it in dry storage. I'm...
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    Garboard drain cover

    Yeah, I kinda didn't want to drill more holes than necessary. I got it all patch up but went to re-install the pitot tube for the speedo and noticed the wood shavings are a little moist. Yikes! Is there any good way to measure the moisture content of the wood shavings? I ordered a moisture meter...
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    Garboard drain cover

    I grinded the two cracks on the gelcoat down to the fiberglass and it was just surface cracks, didn't go through the glass. Decided to drill a explorer hole in the one crack and it was dry. What a relief that was, think I dodged the bullet on this one.
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    Garboard drain cover

    I'm with you JASinIL2006, not a big fan of drilling holes from the outside. I recently pulled the outdrive - a VP DPS - wasn't that hard and I've pulled a car engine before. Looks like a boat engine would be a lot less technically difficult but still a lot of work. I think I'll start with...
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    Garboard drain cover

    I can't access the inside of the drain hole, the engine would need to be pulled out in order to drill some holes to see if it is wet. I showed it to the owner of the boat yard where I store my boat and he said it would be fine like it is for another 10 years or so. It's a 20 year old boat so...
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    Garboard drain cover

    Thanks for the welcome and appreciate the feedback from both of you. Unfortunately, I can't access the inside of the drain hole. It's a Monterey 262 cruiser. Thinking I should drill a hole on the outside within the drain cover, like rotating the cover 30 degrees and see if those holes are wet...
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    Garboard drain cover

    I noticed my garboard drain cover was a little loose when I installed the plug. So I decided to reseal it. I removed the screws and garboard drain cover and a little bit of water drained out of the bilge. I think some of the water got in the bottom screw hole and used a heat gun to dry it out...
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