started to tear out the back of the tracker

and so far so good, got the batteries out, cover plate and battery boxes out, only broke two of the battery boxes, cheap plastic, plus they were froze a bit, got the old pumps out and cant find any cracks, or anything, crap, going to town and get a splice,and pick up a new bilge pump, Speckhunter ie speck said the automatic ones are easy to install,,,,, we will see.

going to test the drain hose next, got it plugged off and will pour some water in the live well and see if it drains. sure hope it does not, that mean the line is good. I am hoping for a cracked or something in the live well pump, I have a couple extras on the shelf.

on break, eating a mashed tater samich, ok hear is how i do it, get the cold mashed taters, heat just a bit, form into patties, chop onion, chop fried bacon, roll in flower fry in hot grease, put on toasted bread and enjoy.

So far so good. Good luck, Michael. Hope it's nothing major.

so do I Bob, SO DO I.

I hope you don't have too much wrong with the boat. That there sammich sounds GOOD!

me too barry, I think it is a bad hose, maby a cracked pump. (i hope) do not think it will be to bad, could only stand half a day in the shop so guess I will finish tomorrow.

and the samich was good.

Its just going to get colder this week Beagle!

I LOVE a tater sandwich. My dad's favorite was a radish sandwich. Moving back to North MO next couple of weeks. Tired of catching these small South MS crappie.

I like fried radish/turnip samich also. what you going to do in north mo. ducks, geese, fish?

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ok hear is how i do it, get the cold mashed taters, heat just a bit, form into patties, chop onion, chop fried bacon, roll in flower fry in hot grease, put on toasted bread and enjoy.

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Some good stuff.;) That's the same thing we call tater fritters.:)

I'm interested to see what you find out. I have a 2005 lowe 180w that recently started doing the same thing. Ive looked underneath it for cracks and can't see anything. Ive been gonna try to plug the lines and see if i can find a leak but haven't took the time yet.

You'll get it knocked out Beagle.

St. Joe is home. Mom's 88 and needs some help. All I'm doing down here is fishing and getting fat. Might as well be somewhere where I can do some good. Selling my boat, (no possible way to store it). Will be lookin for a pard come spring. Also lookin forward to huntin some mushrooms and catchin some Smithville Crappie.

beagle, we add an egg, no flour, and call them tater cakes. Good stuff. :D

I had a Duracraft 16' that would let in 5 gal / hour. Every hour you had to turn on the bilge and pump for a minute or so. I stripped everything out except the console and the aluminum cross member and flotation. Put it on the water and china marked around every rivet that was leaking. Had those rivets welded up. Put it back together with a longer front deck. Put it on the water and it only leaked 4 gallon per hour after that. Then put it up for sales with the leaky SOB caveat. I'm hoping this issue is a minor one Beags.

G.