Bilge Pump

MrPhotographer06 · 02-20-09, 10:59 PM

I've gotta have one eventually.. hopefully i wont need it.. but in-case i do, what size should i get?

bamabassman · 02-21-09, 08:45 AM

can't trully help ya on this one, laser can though. ask him pal.

zooker · 02-21-09, 11:37 AM

500gph is recomended for any boat under 17 feet. i have a 850gph bilge in my stratos but that cause it was the only one they had..

i like the rule pumps.

one thing that will definatly harm them is fishing line.. a small 2" piece can burn one up..

zooker

jraap · 02-21-09, 04:24 PM

well let me talk from experience...........get the biggest bilge pump you can afford/and or will fit in your boat.........i hit a pipe from an old duck blind and the water was instantly coming up back thru the drain in the main floor....huge hole in the boat.....while i had a millon gph hole in my boat, and there was no way any bilge pump was going to handle all that water..i'm glad i didn't have a kmart bilge pump in my boat......now my new boat has 2 pumps...one is a back-up.

MrPhotographer06 · 02-21-09, 07:43 PM

i was thinkin of like a 500gph.. wally world has an attwod on the shelf ..the whole kit for 41 bucks..

zooker · 02-22-09, 07:13 AM

um in the older boats the bilge pumped in to the splash well and drained out from there. look and make sure the splash well has a drain hole. before you run the pipe.. i agree the thru hull was a good idea..i wont be drillin a hole thru my hull to put a thru hull fitting in.. thanks though..the oringinal bilge pump piping in mine went up to the splash well and thru the thin glass in the side of the splash well using basicly a thru hull fitting..

zooker

1FASTLASER · 02-22-09, 08:22 AM

DEFINATELY go with as BIG as you have space for. I ALWAYS replace mine with 1000gph pumps not only on the bilge's but also on the aerators. You always need the capability to move water and move it fast. Get caught in some of the storms or rains that I have and you will see what I am talking bout. I been in boats before that had 2" of water in the bottom and the bilge be running wide open. NOT MINE.

MrPhotographer06 · 02-22-09, 05:29 PM

splash well... that little shelf in front of the motor?

theres already a hole in the transom..

Rebbasser · 02-22-09, 11:22 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by jraap

well let me talk from experience...........get the biggest bilge pump you can afford/and or will fit in your boat........

Ditto! Could not agree more.

bassackwards · 02-22-09, 11:26 PM

yea go big after all that work i would hate to see some fish make it his new home

02-20-09, 10:59 PM	#1
MrPhotographer06 BassFishin.Com Super Veteran Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Fort Bragg, NC Posts: 2,096	Bilge Pump I've gotta have one eventually.. hopefully i wont need it.. but in-case i do, what size should i get? __________________ For Those I Love, I will Sacrifice: US Army since 2012

02-21-09, 08:45 AM	#2
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02-21-09, 11:37 AM	#3
zooker BassFishin.Com Premier Elite Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: denton nc Posts: 13,441	500gph is recomended for any boat under 17 feet. i have a 850gph bilge in my stratos but that cause it was the only one they had.. i like the rule pumps. one thing that will definatly harm them is fishing line.. a small 2" piece can burn one up.. zooker __________________ the godfather.. aml in remission since 7-20-09

02-21-09, 07:43 PM	#5
MrPhotographer06 BassFishin.Com Super Veteran Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Fort Bragg, NC Posts: 2,096	i was thinkin of like a 500gph.. wally world has an attwod on the shelf ..the whole kit for 41 bucks.. __________________ For Those I Love, I will Sacrifice: US Army since 2012

02-22-09, 07:13 AM	#6
zooker BassFishin.Com Premier Elite Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: denton nc Posts: 13,441	um in the older boats the bilge pumped in to the splash well and drained out from there. look and make sure the splash well has a drain hole. before you run the pipe.. i agree the thru hull was a good idea..i wont be drillin a hole thru my hull to put a thru hull fitting in.. thanks though..the oringinal bilge pump piping in mine went up to the splash well and thru the thin glass in the side of the splash well using basicly a thru hull fitting.. zooker __________________ the godfather.. aml in remission since 7-20-09

02-21-09, 04:24 PM	#4
jraap BassFishin.Com Active Member Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: St. John, Indiana Posts: 164	well let me talk from experience...........get the biggest bilge pump you can afford/and or will fit in your boat.........i hit a pipe from an old duck blind and the water was instantly coming up back thru the drain in the main floor....huge hole in the boat.....while i had a millon gph hole in my boat, and there was no way any bilge pump was going to handle all that water..i'm glad i didn't have a kmart bilge pump in my boat......now my new boat has 2 pumps...one is a back-up.

02-22-09, 08:22 AM	#7
1FASTLASER BassFishin.Com Super Veteran Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: crossett,arkansas Posts: 2,777	DEFINATELY go with as BIG as you have space for. I ALWAYS replace mine with 1000gph pumps not only on the bilge's but also on the aerators. You always need the capability to move water and move it fast. Get caught in some of the storms or rains that I have and you will see what I am talking bout. I been in boats before that had 2" of water in the bottom and the bilge be running wide open. NOT MINE. __________________ Laser's rule with Merc's doing the pushing..........KEEP THE WETSIDE DOWN AND THE DRY SIDE UP!!!!!!

02-22-09, 05:29 PM	#8
MrPhotographer06 BassFishin.Com Super Veteran Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Fort Bragg, NC Posts: 2,096	splash well... that little shelf in front of the motor? theres already a hole in the transom.. __________________ For Those I Love, I will Sacrifice: US Army since 2012

02-22-09, 11:26 PM	#10
bassackwards BassFishin.Com Active Member Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: hampton va Posts: 408	yea go big after all that work i would hate to see some fish make it his new home

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