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| Well this weekend it finally happened, I decided it was time to take a peak behind the carpet and see what was the cause of my soft floors on my 27 year old Tuffy.
I had been doing research and found out that I could use a product called penetrating epoxy to give "good as new" life to old dry rot wood. To do that I knew I needed to pull back the carpet and take a look.
You can see in the first picture that I took out the seating and rear console, second photo is of my floor after I cut out the carpet and then took a grinder and cut off the "shell" that was about 1/4" thick on top of the plywood, below the carpet. The reason it was so easy is because the flooring was pretty much reduced to a crumbled mess upon the touch. I was able to take out and crumble the equivalent of about a sheet and a half of plywood into about one kitchen waste basket of rubble.
At that point I knew my repair was going to be a lot more than inserting penetrating epoxy.
My buddy Dean was helping me, so we ripped out the floor and decided it all had to be replaced. We decided to do it modularly so it can work with our schedules. First the floor was ripped out and cleaned, then the rod locker was ripped out, after that we plan to finish the Starboard side to the controls all the way back. That way the console can be left in tact and mounted to the new rod locker box, before we move back, next will be the Port side boxes, and the front deck appears good enough to leave in place.
I've posted pictures so far.
My questions: 1. Would you rewire? How hard is it?
2. How would you check the transom with the motor on it? I know I need to take off the metal cap, but how do you take a motor off while you do that?
3. I built a new seating deck a couple years ago along with new seats so I have that done. Has anyone put a little tool/glove box in their seating area?
4. Has anyone rebuilt their rear deck? If so did you change anything?
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