Dockhead
Well-Known Member
My boat was built with a Gusher 10 manual bilge pump under the cockpit floor, with a y-valve allowing the use for either main or engine room bilge. You operate it with a handle from the cockpit.
This is an overpriced, badly designed piece of carp, which I would love to replace with something different. It never works more than a few months at a time because the housing is die-cast aluminum, and the valve seats corrode seemingly no matter what you do with them, preventing the valves from sealing and so preventing the pump from working.
Alas, I have limited space due to the top of the generator, and I have not found a proper plastic one which would fit. I actually bought a Gusher Titan which I thought I had measured to fit, but which did not. (The uninstalled and unused pump is for sale cheap in the classifieds).
So I think I am doomed to try to make the Gusher 10 work somehow. I'm not going to just replace it, as a new one will have the very same problem pretty soon, and they are bloody expensive.
So what to do? I've tried thoroughly sanding and recoating with various supposedly corrosion resistant paints; it never works.
Maybe have the whole upper housing chemically stripped and chrome plated?
Or what? I will be very grateful for any ideas.
This is an overpriced, badly designed piece of carp, which I would love to replace with something different. It never works more than a few months at a time because the housing is die-cast aluminum, and the valve seats corrode seemingly no matter what you do with them, preventing the valves from sealing and so preventing the pump from working.
Alas, I have limited space due to the top of the generator, and I have not found a proper plastic one which would fit. I actually bought a Gusher Titan which I thought I had measured to fit, but which did not. (The uninstalled and unused pump is for sale cheap in the classifieds).
So I think I am doomed to try to make the Gusher 10 work somehow. I'm not going to just replace it, as a new one will have the very same problem pretty soon, and they are bloody expensive.
So what to do? I've tried thoroughly sanding and recoating with various supposedly corrosion resistant paints; it never works.
Maybe have the whole upper housing chemically stripped and chrome plated?
Or what? I will be very grateful for any ideas.
