TBarCYa
Senior Chief Petty Officer
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- Apr 13, 2005
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After a couple years, I'm back to the restoration forum.... Due to moving we had to abandon the last project, the 1971 Concorde but we are in the process of purchasing a 94 Proline 2510 Walk Around with the 7.4L I/O.
The Proline suffered a fire and by all accounts, and my inspection, it appears that gasoline fumes built up under the deck and when the engine was attempted to be started it blew. The engine compartment looks really clean except for some soot on the inside of the doghouse and the blower tubes being melted. Only one of the belts is bad and the wiring all looks to be in good shape.
The boat was looked at by a guy who owns a fiberglass shop who believes that the sending unit had a leak that allowed the fumes to build which I expect could be a reasonably easy fix but it could also mean removing the floor to replace the tank, which I'm not looking forward to. I looked at as much of the tank as I could see from the 8" deck plate and it looks good, but obviously it going to need a little more investigation.
Now for the fun part... The fire appears to have made it's way under the deck to the cabin which is very sooty (sp?) and will be gutted and replaced. All of the damage is on the port side behind the sink / stove and there appears to be some minor blistering on the outside of the hull, way above the water line.
So, I will have some fiberglass work to do on the hull but there's no burned fiberglass that I have found. I'll be doing more investigation once we get the boat home but my focus will be on the mechanical until my wife gets the soot and broken glass cleaned up...
So, I figure that I need to look first at the fuel tank and make sure that it's holding fuel (was supposedly holding 160 gallons when the fire broke out) and that it's not damaged. Once I figure out the state of the fuel tank and making sure that it's safe I'll move to checking out all of the electrical to make sure that there's no melted wiring. As long as the wiring looks good, which I'm very hopeful of because the helm is on the starboard side, opposite of the fire, I will start working on getting the engine running.
I expect a long road ahead but hopefully in the end it's worth it.
The Proline suffered a fire and by all accounts, and my inspection, it appears that gasoline fumes built up under the deck and when the engine was attempted to be started it blew. The engine compartment looks really clean except for some soot on the inside of the doghouse and the blower tubes being melted. Only one of the belts is bad and the wiring all looks to be in good shape.
The boat was looked at by a guy who owns a fiberglass shop who believes that the sending unit had a leak that allowed the fumes to build which I expect could be a reasonably easy fix but it could also mean removing the floor to replace the tank, which I'm not looking forward to. I looked at as much of the tank as I could see from the 8" deck plate and it looks good, but obviously it going to need a little more investigation.
Now for the fun part... The fire appears to have made it's way under the deck to the cabin which is very sooty (sp?) and will be gutted and replaced. All of the damage is on the port side behind the sink / stove and there appears to be some minor blistering on the outside of the hull, way above the water line.
So, I will have some fiberglass work to do on the hull but there's no burned fiberglass that I have found. I'll be doing more investigation once we get the boat home but my focus will be on the mechanical until my wife gets the soot and broken glass cleaned up...
So, I figure that I need to look first at the fuel tank and make sure that it's holding fuel (was supposedly holding 160 gallons when the fire broke out) and that it's not damaged. Once I figure out the state of the fuel tank and making sure that it's safe I'll move to checking out all of the electrical to make sure that there's no melted wiring. As long as the wiring looks good, which I'm very hopeful of because the helm is on the starboard side, opposite of the fire, I will start working on getting the engine running.
I expect a long road ahead but hopefully in the end it's worth it.
