I bought a 88 supra saltare about 1.5 years ago. I ran it last summer without any major problems. I have been looking at the stringer post all winter and it has gotten me a little worried. The floor seems to be pretty soild, the motors mounts are good and I drilled a few holes to test the strings and they were fine. One of the problems that I have been dealing with is that boat takes on water. I replaced the rudder and repacked it last year and it still leaked. Im going to repack the drive shaft and see if that fixs the problem. I decided to look into the exhaust today because I think it was leaking last year and I saw where the supertrapps need to be resealed everyonce in a while. When I took the exahust off there was a little water starting to come out of the screw holes. I don't see how the water can get to the middle area of the boat if the exhaust leaking. The only thing I can see is that it would make my foam wet and rot my stringers. I am new to this so I guess my question is there anyway to check and see if the foam is wet without taking off the floor. Also I have been trying to find out how to put the supertrapps back on and cant find any pics. Do i need to drill new holes, some of the gelcoat come off should I replace it and do you put the sealant on every ring our the just the one that mounts to the transome. The preson that I bought the from did say the floor and sub floor were refinished but I don't know how long the exhaust has been leaking. If the foam is wet are stringers probably going to rot before to long. Another problem I found the fiberglass on the cracked is there an easy way it fix this. It seem like there was a soft spot but I think its just because the of the fiberglass the plywoood still seemed to be good. Any help would greatly be appreciated.
supertrapps and floor questions
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