[C320-list] Water leak

[Dick Walker]

As I suggested last month

AMEN

Cheers

Dick Walker


On Aug 16, 2012, at 4:10 PM, "Dennis Harris" <dharris02 at suddenlink.net> wrote:

> Unless you shut off the valve to the water pump (under aft cabin bunk on my boat) from the aft tank, the water from the forward tank will drain to the after tank.  The opening ports in top of these tanks don't seal very good, and aft tank, already being full,  will overflow into bilge.  Also, in use, pump down forward tank first, switch valve to forward tank off, open tank to aft tank and continue pumping.  If you leave an empty tank valve open while trying to pump from the other one that has water, you are likely to get an air lock in pump and get no flow.
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> Dennis Harris C320 #694
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> Ok, the new (to me) boat arrived today on a trailer, and gets relaunched tomorrow morning. I topped off the water tanks, and the forward tank must have been about empty, the stern tank taking very little. Here's the problem-the bilge keeps slowly filling up, kicking on the bilge pump. I can see a slow trickle entering the art end if the bilge....any ideas?????
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> Thanks for any suggestions