Re: Well I did it now!
Re: Well I did it now!
Well got tired of trying to get my friend to let me come over with the Islander and fill it full of water on his level yard. And since my new neighbor works with the wife, got permission from her to park in front of her house and fill it full of water
. Started at 2:00 and this was after 10 min.
I thought cool, this won't take to long. Well at 3:30 this is what I finally had.
I find I have roughly 20 rivets that are leaking. Almost all of them are on the ends of the ribs at the outside of the hull. There are a couple that have silicon on them and I am going to reseat them or replace them, just depends on how they are when I get the silicon off of them and reseat them.
Then it takes almost 2 hours to drain the flipping thing. When I pulled the plug I thought for sure it would not take long to drain, yea right.:facepalm:
No Jason I have not tried to put that tank in just yet, I was going to today but was fighting against the weather once again and had to get the boat covered back up before it started pouring here again. I am going to give it a try tomorrow after I go get the belly tank. Yes I am going to get it anyway. And if the glasser tank fits then I will have more fuel capacity, and if not then will sell it.
Yes diesel is spendy, but when that is what you have then you use it. This truck does not get drove that much, maybe a half a tank a month. But what I did not tell you is that even thought it is a crew cab long bed 4x4 it still gets 22-24 gal per mile on the freeway when empty.
And yes I know that mileage sounds like BS but it is true. I have 2 friends in Boise that have the same truck as I do, and I mean the same except for colors. And the best that either of them get is 18-19 mpg. Don't know why I get that high but I am not complaining.
Re: Well I did it now!
Well got tired of trying to get my friend to let me come over with the Islander and fill it full of water on his level yard. And since my new neighbor works with the wife, got permission from her to park in front of her house and fill it full of water
. Started at 2:00 and this was after 10 min.
I thought cool, this won't take to long. Well at 3:30 this is what I finally had.
I find I have roughly 20 rivets that are leaking. Almost all of them are on the ends of the ribs at the outside of the hull. There are a couple that have silicon on them and I am going to reseat them or replace them, just depends on how they are when I get the silicon off of them and reseat them.
Then it takes almost 2 hours to drain the flipping thing. When I pulled the plug I thought for sure it would not take long to drain, yea right.:facepalm:
No Jason I have not tried to put that tank in just yet, I was going to today but was fighting against the weather once again and had to get the boat covered back up before it started pouring here again. I am going to give it a try tomorrow after I go get the belly tank. Yes I am going to get it anyway. And if the glasser tank fits then I will have more fuel capacity, and if not then will sell it.
Yes diesel is spendy, but when that is what you have then you use it. This truck does not get drove that much, maybe a half a tank a month. But what I did not tell you is that even thought it is a crew cab long bed 4x4 it still gets 22-24 gal per mile on the freeway when empty
.And yes I know that mileage sounds like BS but it is true. I have 2 friends in Boise that have the same truck as I do, and I mean the same except for colors. And the best that either of them get is 18-19 mpg. Don't know why I get that high but I am not complaining.
