[C320-list] Engine bilge tube

[Jeff Hare]

As Lou mentioned, that should just open up into the bilge space below the engine pan.  You're probably hitting an obstruction like a support for the engine pan or a hull rib..

Now if you drill that hole larger, the right thing to do would be to feed a piece of PEX hose from here directly to the bilge and seal around it..  Having water drain into this area of the bilge is a problem b/c it doesn't all drain into the bilge section where it can be pumped out.  Once you get water in there it takes a long time to dry that out.

I wish the factory would have done this.

Jeff 

Bruce Heyman <bruceheyman at cox.net> wrote:

>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
>>>