My wet exhaust tank below the companion way has pitted and cracked. Has anyone had any experience, good or bad with replacing this custom stainless tank with an off-the-shelf tank?
leaking wet exhaust on Pearson 36-2
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There is one hose going in and one going out. It should be attached to the hull with a few brackets or a flanged base that is screwed into the substrata. Remove the screws, detach the hoses and pull the wet exhaust. A fiberglass exhaust would be preferable to a metal one which is prone to rust and/or corrosion. This does not require anything custom. Off the shelf is preferred. Good luck and good sailing, Ron
I replaced mine 3 years ago. Another listee here Dave of Ariel had his done and refered me to Centrex. They make a custom fibreglass one for our boat... fits great. When I replaced mine I also got a new exhaust hose leading to the engine and bought a couple 90 degree fiberglass elbows as well from Centrex. These kept the hose from the necessary tight bends it has to endure leading to the engine. I can get the model number of the exhaust when I go to the boat this week, or I am sure you can check the archives here and all the info will be readily available. A few people have used these.
Good Luck!
Good Luck!
By the way, removing the old one is no big deal. After you remove the exhaust hose that comes directly from the engine, you will have to cut the pipe that the hose attaches to.... This is too long to get the unit out. A quick use of a saw zaw and its all done and out.
Here is the link to my description of the muffler replacement:
http://forums.pearson.sailboatowners.com/showthread.php?p=579735&highlight=muffler
Dave
s/v ARIEL
http://forums.pearson.sailboatowners.com/showthread.php?p=579735&highlight=muffler
Dave
s/v ARIEL
Well, depends on what you mean by "no big deal." I pulled my two house batteries, siphoned about half the fuel out of the fuel tank (with seriously undersized hose) so I could move that aft, and still had to cut the seemingly excessively long intake pipe, unfortunately with one of those little tools that holds a hack saw blade like a knife blade. I don't know how they ever got that tank in there without building the boat around it. The entire effort to pull, patch, and reinstall took about 8 hours. Putting it back together was the easy part. I had planned on about two hours. (The patch is merely a band-aid. I had to know whether or not the tank was going to fail catastrophically or not.)
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