Recent content by MikeyThumbs

I emailed GW directly already to see what their feedback was, I’ll let you know if they get back to me ..

Thanks for this advice.. I sent an email to SP… hopefully they will get back to me with an answer later today.

Well shit! I read the article and as much as I agree with it, when I removed the original tank, it was surrounded by neoprene rubber strips wherever it made contact with wood. The tank builder told me to mount strips to the tank with a fat bead of 5200 and press them until it squirts out of...

I think I’m going to just shim the low side of the tank up about 1/2”.. 1” of pitch seems so drastic and unnecessary to me when thinking about the physics of liquid. Then again I’m no boat engineer by any stretch….

Shhh ..

I ordered the HDPE bars in various thicknesses and will make up the blocks with that and be done with it, as far as support goes.. As for the pitch, yes when I removed the old tank, I didn’t it modify the stringers in any way other than a thin layer of fiberglass to cover a small crack. The...

Could it be possible that the boat has most of the weight at the stern where the outboard sits, so the tank pitching toward the bow will keep the weight distributed more evenly? I didn’t remove any type of shims and can’t remember if the original tank was this pitched this much, but I’m...

turns out I need to raise the lower side of the tank about 1” to 1-1/8” to bring it level or add slight pitch toward the pickup. What I think I am going to do for that issue, is place strips of wood on top, (coated with epoxy) perpendicular to the stringers and 5200 them down under the lower...

That would be perfect, I just don’t know where to get something like that?… any ideas?

Got it. So in the coffin there is about 2” of space each, on all 4 sides.. there were wooden wedges in there from the factory but wondering what else I can use to secure the tank from moving side to side…

Hey everyone.. so I got my tank ready to go in this weekend but I had a couple of questions. FYI, boat is a 1984 Tournament 170, 30 gallon in-deck tank being replaced. Had it fabricated to match the old tank exactly.. 1- The tank doesn’t seem to sit level in the fuel tank coffin area. It’s...

I mocked up the wiring and connected the batteries and switch last night to make sure everything worked, which it did. Today I’m going to pull the wiring under the gunwale and secure everything and begin wiring the accessories. I already cut a new console panel out of a piece of black...

Ok thanks. I understood how it worked but wasn’t realizing the layout of the studs on the back didn’t correspond with the switch labels on the front but I got it now.. For the bilge wiring (or any wiring for that matter) black will only be used for negative/ground connections except for the...

I got a Blue Sea Systems 9001e for the selector switch. It actually is labeled with 1, 2, 1+2 or OFF.. but 1+2 = COM There will be a 30A Type 285 fuse approx. 6" away from the switch between the switch and fuse panel. You're right about the wiring being overkill. I hadn't realized when I...

I am very handy, so I decided to get a piece of HDPE and going to trace it up with the old switch console.. then I bought a new fuse panel, switch console, fuel gauge, separate bilge switch/fuse and going to make up a new switch console. I actually found (through the help of GG.com) the original...