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Water System Leak
- RGrew176
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Water System Leak
I had come up with 2 possible fixes neither one of them professional. I was more or less going to jury rig a fix if that was possible.
Fix #1. I got a piece of hose and cut it to the length of the part of the line I was going to fix. It was the hot water line to the sink in the head area. I slit the hose and slid it around the leaking line. I then used some hose clamps and tightened them at tight as possible. Turned on the waterpump and no go. It was leaking although not as bad as without the "fix".
Fix #2. Bypass the line to the faucet completely. I cut the line in two places and removed the line from the faucet connection. I then inserted a piece of hose to the line running from the bilge and the line running to the shower hot water line. Double clamped the hose at both ends and turned on the pump.
Here we are one hour later and not a drip. Problem solved and leak fixed. It's not professional and I will tell any new potential owner about my jury rigged fix when the time comes to sell this boat.
It was a small tight area to work in, one of the reasons I decided to bypass not install a new line. It took a couple of hours or so to get the job done. I know that the engineers who design boats have to pack a lot of stuff into a 29' 10" hull but PLEASE try to make parts that need to be worked on a little more easy to access. If engineers had to work on boats I think they might make it easier for them to be worked on when things need to be fixed.
Problem hopefully fixed for now.
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- rjr
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- g36
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- RGrew176
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Re: Water System Leak
rjr wrote:Source of the post Rick Was the leak in the faucet or in the shower line? When you say from the bilge do you mean a hot water supply line?
It was in the short line that ran from the main water line up to the faucet. Very difficult to get to. It was the hot water line that was leaking. It was easier to by pass the faucet than try to run a replacement line there.
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Re: Water System Leak
RGrew176 wrote:Source of the postrjr wrote:Source of the post Rick Was the leak in the faucet or in the shower line? When you say from the bilge do you mean a hot water supply line?
It was in the short line that ran from the main water line up to the faucet. Very difficult to get to. It was the hot water line that was leaking. It was easier to by pass the faucet than try to run a replacement line there.
Did you remove a "T" that was used to feed the faucet? I had many issues with leaks at connections and if it is that grey plastic line it is subject to that problem. About every year a new leak would spring up and I'd have to fix it, until I finally ripped it all out and replaced with PEX.
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- mjk1040
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I'd Rather Be Boating!
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Re: Water System Leak
I found it best to make as many connections out in the open as possible, then put it in the more difficult to reach spot just to make the final tie in connections.
Hope your fix holds up for you.
Best,
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