Water..in my boat??

[nosreme722]

Soo i think water is comin in through the shaft. When i open it up after a regular run its completely wet everywhere and theres sometimes pools of water in the sponsons

theres no cracks or anything and i actually dried off my flex shaft and put extra lube on it right before my run..

Also i have my lvc set for 3.4v (seaking 180a v2) and everytime i check my batts on the charger they read about 3.8v per cell? this has happened a few times consistently. Does the esc have a warning before the lvc or something? Am i going crazy and think that the lvc is cutting in when its not? Not sure but its cutting into my run times sooo.. not ok


EDIT: if yo cant tell the pics r of the pools of water

[ron1950]

thats alot of water.....have u pressure checked the water lines.....take the water line off the rudder ....put finger over exit and blow and find the leak if its in the cooling system .....what lube are u useing in the shaft?

[nosreme722]

thats alot of water.....have u pressure checked the water lines.....take the water line off the rudder ....put finger over exit and blow and find the leak if its in the cooling system .....what lube are u useing in the shaft?

I know it never happened before i put the tacon and seaking in.. ill try that tomorrow thanks. I use the blue proboat marine grease.

[dana]

the lvc kicks in under load. any boat you have should work this way

[nosreme722]

the lvc kicks in under load. any boat you have should work this way

so how do i know if its at 3.4v per cell or just under load? and it stops at 3.8 every time.

[JPriami]

You can also pressure check a system with a surenge full of water and plugging the line that goes out.

[HYDROJERRY]

I would bet its the motor cooler oring seals,, my miss elam was doing the same, massive water inside i brought it to work and put ower smoke tester on it and the oring in the rear of the motor was spraying water inside wright over the motor wires!!!

[ron1950]

i am thinking the same thing jerry said...the o rings are leaking.....i have had some leak and just had to twist the cooler to stop leaks

[nosreme722]

Ya i think its that.. its way to much water for a small leak in the tubing, i did see a small drip when i tested the tubing but nothing major at all. Ill check the o-rings, i guarantee thats it. Thanks.

[Boaterguy]

Nosreme, I don't know if you are on RC groups but I recommended the orange juice container method, just put a small piece of tubing in an orange juice conatainer and blow on the hole, If you see water, it is your cooling system.

[nosreme722]

The O-rings are fine? it was a little hard to get it off the motor even. The cooler came with 2 extra o-rings was i suppose to use those in the first place? i lost one anyway..

[ron1950]

maybe they were not seated properly oil them well and try putting it back on....then pressure test it again

[nosreme722]

maybe they were not seated properly oil them well and try putting it back on....then pressure test it again

yep thats what i did.. put some more oil on it and put everything back together and put some water through it and this is what happened...

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[CHIEFY_44]

well for 1 you have too much tension on the water lines they are kinked you need to give them more freeplay, 2 that reciever you are running you don't need a bag on it it's full waterproof i run the same rx.
you will be suprised how much water will come out of the water lines on a 4 min run you have been lucky not to have fried the esc and possibly the motor, i have the same controller and mount it ahead of the motor that could help with your bounce problem too if you move it there. hope this helps

[ron1950]

lol u didnt hear the air excapping when u pressure tested the coolong system? anyway glad u found your problem......and u prob do need to get a little slack in the water lines