[C320-list] Engine bilge tube

[Bruce Heyman]

Lou,
That is a bilge drain that goes under the engine pan.  The engine pan does not drain to the bilge as it would likely be a fluid: fuel, antifreeze or oil that should never be in the bilge.
Bruce
Somerset Dana Point CA

Bruce Heyman
(949) 289-8400

Monkey Mail <lou at flyingmonkey.im> wrote:

>Nope, that's not it. But thank you for responding. The tube I'm referring to, and I should have dome a better job of describing it, is about the diameter of a No.2 pencil directly beneath the gear box, forward of the shaft packing, molded into the aft lip of the engine bilge area. I will post a picture this evening to my album. 
>
>Thanks,
>Lou Hodac
>Blue Moon
>Hull 702
>
>Sent from my iPad
>
>On Apr 17, 2013, at 8:54 AM, "Brian/Carol McLamb" <bjcnmclamb at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> If it looks like a small version of a dryer tube, it is connected to the
>> blower on the engine.  The switch at the helm for the blower turns the fan
>> off and on and it pushes through there.  Not 100% sure that is what you are
>> referreing too, but it is the only one I can picture.
>> 
>> Brian s/v Serenity # 1075
>> 
>> 
>> On Tue, Apr 16, 2013 at 9:37 PM, Monkey Mail <lou at flyingmonkey.im> wrote:
>> 
>>> Hello,
>>> 
>>> On hull number 702, just aft of the gear box there is a small round hole
>>> (tube) that runs forward and down, under the engine pan area, on a slight
>>> angle. I assume this is a drain to the bilge for any water entering the
>>> engine compartment, such as from the prop shaft. I probed the drain but I
>>> could only push thru about two feet. I tried looking under the floor from
>>> the center bilge but could not see any exit to that tube. Can anyone shed
>>> some light on this issue.
>>> 
>>> Thank you,
>>> Lou Hodac
>>> Hull 702
>>> Blue Moon
>>> 
>>> Sent from my iPad
>>