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PostPosted: Mon May 21, 2007 7:19 pm 
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There seem to be quite a few folks here who have recently bought new boats. For some it probably isn't their first boat, but for some it may be, so I'm just posting this as something to file away for future reference.

We finally got the 230 home yesterday for spring cleaning, wax, etc. For the first time, we pulled all the cupholders out to clean them and to make a long story short I dropped a screwdriver down into the area below the sink and behind the fresh water tank :evil: .

Getting it out involved removing a seat cover, a speaker, and a partition. It turned out to be a good thing, as this gave me easy (sort of) access to the fresh water tank, pump, etc. It gave me a chance to record the model number on the pump and so forth. Anyway, I noticed what appeared to be some light hard water deposits on the tank around the fill hose. Of course the hose clamp turned out to be loose - as did the clamps on every other fitting in that compartment. There was no evidence of other leakage, but it was only a matter of time. For the last year I've thought, "The boat's 2 years old now, I need to go around and tighten everything up." Well, lesson learned - after the first year, make sure you get it done.

Turned out the pump-out lines to the head were also loose to the point where the main discharge line had worked itself almost completely off it's fitting (ew). Thank heaven that didn't leak. Got that fixed up as well.

By this time I had lost my daylight, but next stop will be all the hoses in the engine compartment, including exhaust.

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Thanks Mike. A good point for all of us to remember to check all hose connections in the engine compartment. Another one to keep in mind is to check the battery cable connectors and cables every season before dropping those batteries back in.

Maybe someone should start a thread with their own unique thing they always check that maybe we didn't think of?

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Wow, your mistake turned out to be a big time and money saver!

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Wow our boat is 7 years old. Better hope that nothing is loose (knock on fake, little pieces of glued wood).

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PostPosted: Thu Jun 07, 2007 5:25 am 
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pet575 wrote:
Thanks Mike. A good point for all of us to remember to check all hose connections in the engine compartment. Another one to keep in mind is to check the battery cable connectors and cables every season before dropping those batteries back in.

Maybe someone should start a thread with their own unique thing they always check that maybe we didn't think of?


Sounds like some check lists would be a good idea. It's not difficult to miss the "little' stuff that can turn into "big" stuff quickly on a boat

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Just a follow-up to this. I finally got around to the hose clamps in the engine compartment. Every single clamp, except for the ones on the fuel tank, were loose to some degree. A couple of cooling hose clamps were loose to the point where they could be moved with one finger. I'm amazed that I didn't have any water leaks. The exhaust clamps weren't as loose as some of the others, but they definitely needed tightening. One small clamp (the one supplying water to the port exhaust manifold) started slipping when I tightened it, so had to be replaced. Naturally it was the most difficult clamp to access in the whole compartment, but at least it was near the front.

You guys who have bought new boats this year should really put this on your season-end checklist.

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PostPosted: Mon Jun 18, 2007 10:23 am 
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Here's a link to that "checklist" thread. Didn't get quite the response I was hoping for. Maybe I should start one with a different title?

http://ifourwinns.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=903

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Oops... I added the hose clamp thing to that list.

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