Reply To: Problems changing the impellor, and recommending the Speedseal covers

[David Babsky]

Silly me: I just remembered; there is no “water-tight integrity between the engine compartment and the saloon” ..there are limber holes running the length of the boat ..as I found near Rotterdam when the saloon floor started to lift, after a split rubber engine cooling hose raised the level of bilge water over the gear box filler cap and halfway up the engine!

That took a lot of “margarine removal” from the gearbox, and plenty of flushing oil and meths (to remove the last drops of water), till I could refill the gearbox with PROPER oil, and change the hose, and then get under way again!