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Advice needed - Drilling a small hole in my PWC footwells?
On Jul 7, 1:13*pm, wrote:
On Jul 6, 2:28*pm, Larry wrote: "Chuck" wrote innews: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 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....... - 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 Mine has a label on the bottom telling the rider which way to flip :-) *Yes, drilling holes bad idea.- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - I agree completely. Of course I should note that this is one of my two pet peeves.. Always use the right tool for the job (or don't do it) and never modify a tried and true boat design. They both kinda' got together really. If you have to modify your boat, you probably bought the wrong tool for your needs... |
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