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How hard are leaks to fix??
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<blockquote data-quote="Ouachita" data-source="post: 81393" data-attributes="member: 186"><p>My 35+ year old formerly leaky jon boat is a floating testimonial that it can be fixed. It had goop patches all over the bottom when I bought it. After tightening every rivet and replacing the bad ones with SS bolts the bottom was coated with steelflex and now it is tight as a drum. As long as the rivets are the only problem and you don't have any major structural problems it can all be fixed cheaply. Mine probably would have been water tight even without the steelflex after the rivet tightening. People put all the goop on loose rivets and that never fixes the problem. If you don't mind doing some work I would say go for it for that price!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ouachita, post: 81393, member: 186"] My 35+ year old formerly leaky jon boat is a floating testimonial that it can be fixed. It had goop patches all over the bottom when I bought it. After tightening every rivet and replacing the bad ones with SS bolts the bottom was coated with steelflex and now it is tight as a drum. As long as the rivets are the only problem and you don't have any major structural problems it can all be fixed cheaply. Mine probably would have been water tight even without the steelflex after the rivet tightening. People put all the goop on loose rivets and that never fixes the problem. If you don't mind doing some work I would say go for it for that price! [/QUOTE]
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