Good morning my fellow Parker enthusiasts.
Came across the ugly during recent electrical troubleshooting.
Fuel level sender connected to aftermarket level gauge.
Original owner replaced the level sender and added an aftermarket gauge for fuel level also.
I recently installed a new ddashboard to fit a 9" garmin unit in the dash.
My parker as some will be most likely remember my resent notched transom and splashwell questions, is a 95 23' sport cabin boat with a 96 200hp HPDI unit hung on the back.
Well I lift the circular access hole in the deck to find my sending unit completely corroded and sitting in muck wet.
My 150 gallon tank is below a closed deck glassed in. Aluminum tank.
Access cover exposes 2 wire sensor and a little off to the side the ground tab bonded to exterior of the tank with a thru bolt for wire attachment.
Pictures will follow.
Aft of the tank compartment looking under the deck from that access hole to the transom under the deck I can see from my memory an oval hole roughly 3"x 6" opening with the bottom of that opening level with the top of my tank.
That opening would allow any water however or fuel if ever filling the tank exterior compartment area to spill over into the rear bilge and end up nearest the back transom wall at the rear bilge pump.
The under deck fuel tank compartment I'm discussing has a roughly from my memory a 1" perimeter what feels like open cell foam which is which is saturated to the top with sea water. No fuel. Just sea water.
I would have no way to get a picture of the space around the exterior of the tank and interior wall if the boats tank compartment.
Temporarily at the very least I need to drain that saturated foam that would occasionally slosh around land on the top of the tank and corrode my sending units.
I know I got bigger issue but this is my immediate task at hand.
I have several ideas that I am almost positive will work without cutting up my deck which to make like new would be the only solution.
I beleive this extra weight is contributing to the the scubber under water condition I had described if you look at my splashwell posts made maybe 2 moths ago where I discussed the issues with Linwood Parker.
Thank you.
I could post my HID if needed and pictures will be posted in a few hours.
I'll post a couple of ideas I got on a temp solution after I hear some of your comments. Thank you. This really sucks.
BTW when I bought the boat there was a fault in the rear bilge pump wiring where a connection corroded and failed the pump and the rear bilge filled with water. My compartments are not compromised so please focus on the saturated foam around the tank issue. It is this I am mostly conserned about at the moment. Even though even that is not an emergency concern for me either.
Came across the ugly during recent electrical troubleshooting.
Fuel level sender connected to aftermarket level gauge.
Original owner replaced the level sender and added an aftermarket gauge for fuel level also.
I recently installed a new ddashboard to fit a 9" garmin unit in the dash.
My parker as some will be most likely remember my resent notched transom and splashwell questions, is a 95 23' sport cabin boat with a 96 200hp HPDI unit hung on the back.
Well I lift the circular access hole in the deck to find my sending unit completely corroded and sitting in muck wet.
My 150 gallon tank is below a closed deck glassed in. Aluminum tank.
Access cover exposes 2 wire sensor and a little off to the side the ground tab bonded to exterior of the tank with a thru bolt for wire attachment.
Pictures will follow.
Aft of the tank compartment looking under the deck from that access hole to the transom under the deck I can see from my memory an oval hole roughly 3"x 6" opening with the bottom of that opening level with the top of my tank.
That opening would allow any water however or fuel if ever filling the tank exterior compartment area to spill over into the rear bilge and end up nearest the back transom wall at the rear bilge pump.
The under deck fuel tank compartment I'm discussing has a roughly from my memory a 1" perimeter what feels like open cell foam which is which is saturated to the top with sea water. No fuel. Just sea water.
I would have no way to get a picture of the space around the exterior of the tank and interior wall if the boats tank compartment.
Temporarily at the very least I need to drain that saturated foam that would occasionally slosh around land on the top of the tank and corrode my sending units.
I know I got bigger issue but this is my immediate task at hand.
I have several ideas that I am almost positive will work without cutting up my deck which to make like new would be the only solution.
I beleive this extra weight is contributing to the the scubber under water condition I had described if you look at my splashwell posts made maybe 2 moths ago where I discussed the issues with Linwood Parker.
Thank you.
I could post my HID if needed and pictures will be posted in a few hours.
I'll post a couple of ideas I got on a temp solution after I hear some of your comments. Thank you. This really sucks.
BTW when I bought the boat there was a fault in the rear bilge pump wiring where a connection corroded and failed the pump and the rear bilge filled with water. My compartments are not compromised so please focus on the saturated foam around the tank issue. It is this I am mostly conserned about at the moment. Even though even that is not an emergency concern for me either.