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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...

thanks for the reply. I chose 4AWG to feed the fuse panel but now realize I was looking at the 3% voltage drop chart instead of the 10% as recommended for accessories, lighting, etc.. actually looks like I’ll be able to get away with #8 for 40a feeder with a 30a CB (close to the switch as...

Hi.. as the title states, I’m in the process of re-wiring my 84 Tournament 170. Under the console was a huge rats nest of wires with splices everywhere, wire nuts, regular THHN wire tied into things, etc.. a lot of wires when touched would just crumble im going to basically start from scratch...

Thanks for the reply. I spoke to a few people at different marine stores and they said the same. I bought a kit with fiberglass patches and a resin/hardener.. I am going to drill out a small piece of fiberglass about 6-8” from the end of the crack and see what the wood feels like below. If...

Ok, got it. Sorry, when I said bus I meant a separate “grounding” bus that is ran from the negative terminal of the battery strictly for the fuel tank and filler.

I just pulled off more panels and crawled under the console. It seems that the ground for the fill cap was pulled from the black wire that feeds lighting to the port side (blue and black wire). The green ground from the fill cap connects via butt splice into the black wire and these blue and...