Sneds
Well-Known Member
Just got our new, to us, F36 back to Cardiff and was woken by a piercing alarm!
Bilge No 2 pump between the engines running but no water anywhere, disconnected it but alarm still sounding.
Thanks to "Who" on this forum (thanks Mike) who told me there is a 2nd aft bilge pump.
In the lazarette, behind the generator under a 6" dia inspection hatch in the floor is hidden a float switch and a pump, inaccessible to man!
I emptied that section of the bilge with a stirrup type pump. The water was up to the pump and around half way up it.
The pump runs but didn't seem to be emptying the water, as if a pipe had come away or it was blocked.
My question is how on earth do you get to that pump in order that clean it out or replace it and the float switch!
Thanks to anyone who may have achieved this seemingly impossible task and may be able to advise
Bilge No 2 pump between the engines running but no water anywhere, disconnected it but alarm still sounding.
Thanks to "Who" on this forum (thanks Mike) who told me there is a 2nd aft bilge pump.
In the lazarette, behind the generator under a 6" dia inspection hatch in the floor is hidden a float switch and a pump, inaccessible to man!
I emptied that section of the bilge with a stirrup type pump. The water was up to the pump and around half way up it.
The pump runs but didn't seem to be emptying the water, as if a pipe had come away or it was blocked.
My question is how on earth do you get to that pump in order that clean it out or replace it and the float switch!
Thanks to anyone who may have achieved this seemingly impossible task and may be able to advise
