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What's up everybody? It's Technicians Tuesday and we're back on the Ocean Master to reassess our options of getting this fuel tank out
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We plan on removing this live well that's here in the floor and building a new live well into the tranceom when we put the new tranceom on the boat
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So the plan is to turn this live well here into part of the build
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Since we have the tank moving, today we are going to push it back down and see if we can get it to pull back towards the bulkhead
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After stomping the tank back down and using some fogging oil to lubricate around the sides of the tank
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we are able to pull the tank back against the bulkhead here connected to the live well
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I had to scoop out most of the water with a bucket to begin cutting out the bulkhead in the live well
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and then was able to cut down the sides of the bulkhead. This entire process took about five hours from the beginning of the day to then actually pulling the tank out
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Cutting the bulkhead here took about an hour and a half and about five or six batteries on the saws all
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I And so But after a lot of cutting, we were able to pull the tank back some more
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Now it was just a matter of pushing the tank down, then pulling it back some
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cutting some more of the bulkhead and parts of the live well out, then pushing the tank back down and pulling it back again over and over again
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POMPEO until we are able to get the fill and vent ports to clear out from under the deck
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Once those were clear, I was able to slowly lift the tank straight up to get it to finally come out from inside the compartment
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and pass all of the old foam that has been fighting us through this entire process
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Now once the tank was up in this position, you can see how much foam was under the tank
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but then we just kept pulling it back until it was on top of the transom and we lifted it up until the bottom finally gave up
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After readjusting the chain to hook onto the fill port and give us another portion of the tank to pull from
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we lifted the tank straight up out of the boat and carefully hoisted it over the engine and sat it on the ground to readjust the chains
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and get a bucket under the tank to catch the rest of the fuel and water and junk that was still left in the tank
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Looking at the compartment where the gas tank was this is a huge area and we were thinking of putting in a smaller tank since this is a 160 gallon tank but I think more is always better when it comes to fuel capacity on the boat And since we be
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cutting that live well the rest of the way out and rebuilding the bulkhead, I think we'll keep
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the same-sized tank. And that is going to wrap up our day here for this week's Technicians Tuesday
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I'm sorry this week's a short video, but it would be a pretty boring video to watch how
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repetitious this process was of just pushing the tank down and back down and back and down and back
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over and over cutting and cutting until the tank finally came out but if this is your first video you'll want to
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get subscribed to the channel because now we can move forth with this restoration process next week
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we'll be taking the tank over to the welder so we can get a new tank made and we'll begin the
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process of cutting out the old transom and the builds portion of the boat as well as going over the
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layout for the blueprint of this boat and how all of the pumps and electronics are going to be
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laid out. So you won't want to miss out as we move forward with this 1992 23-foot Ocean Master
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If you can't wait to see the transom cut out, then go ahead and like the video, and then don't forget
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to visit us on our website at born againboating.com. Thank you for hanging out with us today
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and we look forward to seeing you next week. I'm gonna
