possible water entrapment in your consoles

[ILLOGICAL GGC]

as a former owner of an '01 logic 186 now the 190 i made the factory aware thru my dealer of a possible design problem with the consoles collecting water between the live well and the outer wall of the console. well today i was at the dealer getting some stuff for my 210cc and i made a point to look at the 190 to see if triumph had addressed this and they haven"t. the dealer seemed to have forgotten to mention it or whatever but it was a possible major problem electrically. you guy's read this and decide for yourselves if you want to do this or not-----
it seems that after each rough , bouncy trip, everytime i looked inside the console access hatch to plug in the onboard charger , there would be this sawdust consistincy white stuff all over the wiring harness, back of gauges, and floor and everything appeared wet. the livewell is molded as part of the deck and the console sits down and is screwed to the top of the livewell. that is why there is a space inside where screws,wrenches and whatever will fall . well on the console wall that the steering wheel and glove box is mounted to ,the water will get trapped there and slosh out onto the wires and gauges. th sawdust stuff is the shavings where the wheel, throddle control ,glove box and that mystery shelf someone was asking about falls down in this space and as the water fills the space it sloshes out.
i found the quick fix was to drill a hole on each side of the console in the center of where it slopes to the deck on the steering wheel side of the console . i went with a 1/2" metal drill bit and stuck a water hose in the space and slowly let water run in the space until the shavings quit running out the 1/2" holes. took a clothes hanger and kept pushing it in the holes to keep them from stopping up with shavings while the water was running.
as usual i took a long winded explaination to get to drilling 2 holes to fix the problem, but there may be some owners that didn't know why there may be water there. like everyone says ---if there is a hole there's a place for water to enter and in this case collect.
GGC

[Genelie]

Thanks for the post, i am sure there are a lot of us that thanks you for that.

[Cincinnati]

I'm not aware of any water getting into my console (02 190). I frequently am out in snotty 3' chop (like this morning).

Is this water coming from a 'full' livewell? I usually don't use it, so it is never full.

You got me curious enough to go back out and take a look. Just got in an hour ago from fishing.

[ILLOGICAL GGC]

after a good nights sleep it "dawned" on me why and how most of the water may have gotten there.. i would always rinse out the area under the live well thru the round access port and this would kind of flush the bilge area of salt water.water may have migrated there from the spray. if the seal around the top of the livewell were to degrade , i would think you could get water there as well.

hey don't ya'll get excited out there over this post. i love to work on these boats and i do alot of things that most people dont think about . this is one of those things---if you dont rinse your boat out up there you may not have an issue, if you have the washdown pump installed in the console as in my 01 logic and it doesn't bother you what would happen if the hose came aloose and sprayed water all over the electrical system- this post might not interest you.
yet 2 holes in the end of the console could save you alotta grief---your call
robert

[Cincinnati]

I looked and it is dry. Thanks for the info though, really didn't even know that that void was down there.

[Genelie]

Originally Posted by Cincinnati

I'm not aware of any water getting into my console (02 190). I frequently am out in snotty 3' chop (like this morning).

Is this water coming from a 'full' livewell? I usually don't use it, so it is never full.

You got me curious enough to go back out and take a look. Just got in an hour ago from fishing.

Well if you just got in from FISHING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! and you had time to post to this.....WHERE IS THE FISH report. LOL LOL LOL :-}}}

[ILLOGICAL GGC]

like i said earlier this was on an 01 model but it doesnt look there is any changes from then to now. like i said earlier, that might not apply to everyone ,but i thought i would pass along what i experienced.
berto

[Cincinnati]

Originally Posted by Genelie

Well if you just got in from FISHING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! and you had time to post to this.....WHERE IS THE FISH report. LOL LOL LOL :-}}}

Took me a while to get the pics uploaded, etc...
http://www.triumphowners.org/forums/...read.php?t=496