2006 228 water in pod

[wavetamer]

Just bought boat and am going through it , was tons of silicone around swim grid and found water in pod , so started to investigate , Pod drain plug leaked ,tapped out and installed better drain system, top insp port also leaked , but I decided to take off swim grid and have a look at pod to hull connection, not great can see 1/8 gap on top of the pod to hull, it may be nothing , going to check bolts for tightness today, does Grady use 3m 5200 on there pods ??? I hope I don't have to pull pod and reseal , any one came across this

 

[wavetamer]

no one has had this issue ??? , put a straight edge across where the pod bolts on seems curved in ??

 

[gw204]

I'm not sure what they use to seal the bracket to the transom, but it's tough stuff. I tried to pull the bracket off of my old 252 and it wouldn't budge at all.

I had my bracket repainted while still on the boat and I don't remember there being a gap at the top like that. I wouldn't be overly concerned with it though. Take a spark plug gap tool and poke around in there and see how deep you can go. Actually do that all the way around. If you find no detectable gaps, then I would run a bead of 3M 4000 UV around the perimeter to make it pretty.

My money is on the drain or inspection port though.