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Advice needed - Drilling a small hole in my PWC footwells?
"Chuck" wrote in news:Ca6ck.186773$TT4.51356@attbi_s22:
What do ya think??? Not a good idea at all........ WHEN, not if, a PWC flips over, it rides on a trapped bubble of air caused by the hull that is quite well sealed around its bottom. Notice how all the openings in the PWC hull are high up when it's sitting upright. When it flips over, it floats on this bubble with very little air leakage out to sink it until you show up, laughing and panting, to flip it back over. When you do flip it back over, WITH THE CARBS GOING OVER THE TOP PLEASE, there is very little water now trapped in the hull because of this hydraulic locked air bubble that kept the water out of the hull upside down.....and kept the water out of the engine upside down, too! Now YOU come along and want to drill some VENT HOLES to let the TRAPPED AIR BUBBLE escape allowing water to rush into the upside down hull to flood the amazingly-expensive-to-fix engine and maybe even sink the boat! Not a good idea.......AT ALL....... |
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