I have a1996 190ccf center console, I just purchased boat and owner said everything worked. But I can't get water to pump into live well. I don't hear anything running when I got my head inside of fish box. I know it empty by gravity but I can't find the live well pump to check it out. The so called fish box keeps water in it. May be couple of gallons or 3. Is there a drain in the box that might be stopped up and if so where does the water run out too.
There is no switch on dash for maceration pump there is a live well switch.
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Live well and fish box
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Allen31525
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Re: Live well and fish box
The fish boxes use a macerator pump to drain, find the drain hoses then fallow them to the pump. The pump for the live well is usually the same as the wash down pump with a "Y" valve on it most of the time there near the stern and there should be a seacock on it
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Re: Live well and fish box
thanks will check it out-
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Re: Live well and fish box
Is the Y valve the actual live well pump? The fish box that I can tell has no drain still has murky water in it. Run broom down in it thinking it might clear maybe some sort of drain. Water just sits there. I did flush out all hull drains but one and it's under the gas cap and deck supper smaller hole than rest. I tried a pressure hose for a couple of minutes water went in but did not come back out. And no water in bilge area. Whare did the water go to?
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Re: Live well and fish box
I've owned all sorts of bass boats but this salt water boat has me stumped.
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Re: Live well and fish box
Wellcraft built a good boat but I think the factory had a game call hide the components. Nothing is easy to get to or find. If you have a live well and a washdown most of the time they used the same pump The "Y" valve could be manual or switch automatically depending on the switch you turned on, If It's a fish box it should have a fairly large drain hole and have a macerator pump to drain it, some boats just have a storage box with no drains(great idea, lets put a box low in the boat with no way to get the water out) I f your going to use it as a fish box then I would put in some way to drain it. MAKE SURE THAT THE SMALL HOLE YOUR PUTTING WATER IN IS NOT THE FUEL TANK VENT
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Re: Live well and fish box
Wish somebody would take some pictures of this stuff... use Google Drive or something to store them so we can share pics.
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