bilge pumps

if you have and old bass boat chances are you have one of these pumps. i hope you all have removed it as there not really reliable. this is a 71 lovett auto/manual bilge pump. the old school rigging was to have the pump discharge into the splash well near the moter..
it was screwed to the bottom of the boat.

http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a2...lgepump002.jpg

this is it removed-the black pipe is a sealed wire.
http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a2...lgepump003.jpg

remove the screen and ya get this.-notice the float
http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a2...lgepump005.jpg

take the top off and they look like this.. yeah i thought the same thing -i can't belive it still works..
http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a2...lgepump006.jpg


not sure what year the thru hull bilge came into being..
i probly will be replacing this with an 850 gpm rule bilge pump. kinda glad this boat don't have a live well that would be a mess ..

zooker

you need to send that thing to the museum http://www.bassboatcentral.com/smileys/Laugh.gif ,,,Wow http://www.bassboatcentral.com/smileys/eek.gif did it still work?

yeah manually -i could not belive it either..

zooker