Livewell?

billsnogo

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I am trying to figure out the different features on the boat, and am trying to figure out what these two things on the transom are. Would they be for the live well, and if so, how does a live well work?
 

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HAV2FISH

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Re: Livewell?

The one on the left is the intake for your live well. Looks like the one on the right is the drain and overflow tube for the live well.
 

Silvertip

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Re: Livewell?

I take the opposite view. The one on the right looks like it has a screen or perforated cap on it which makes it the livewell inlet. The screen or perforations is to prevent sucking debris into the pump. when you flip the livewell switch, the pump pulls water into the pump and sends it up a pipe or tube to the livewell spray head which is usually adjustable for volume. Here is where livewells differ. Some have a drain in the bottom. If that's what you have, you need a plug or a standpipe that fits in the hole. The pipe is like the pipe in your toilet tank. When water gets so high, it overflows out the drain. If the livewell has an overflow out the side, then you simply insert a plug in the drain and the water level will rise until it runs out the side. The hole on the left of the transom may be the bilge drain. Stick your finger in it and if it merely passes into the engine bay, that's what it is. You need to plug it or you will sink the boat.
 

billsnogo

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Re: Livewell?

Thanks for the help. I had to take the panel covering this all up off so I could find out why the bilge pump was not working. It looks like the one with the cap goes to the airiator pump, and the other one I think goes to the stand pipe. I was wondering how it worked, so thank you a bunch. Now I know what is what, and how it works.

I really like this forum, and the people :D Noobs like me need lots of help :rolleyes:
 

Seon

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Re: Livewell?

The one with a screen on the left should be in inlet to the pump for the airator to the live well/bait tank. The one with a cap is either the the overflow for the bait/well tank or a deck drain but don't know why it would be capped :confused:. BTW, I don't see a bilge drain hole so maybe that's what that is :rolleyes:.
 
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