My seawater cock has siezed - like they all do. I want to pull the water pump which is leaking anyway.

Bunnings sell a 1/2" BSP threaded poly pipe plug end. Will this do to plug it while I sort other things out?

I will want PTFE tape yes?

Would love some good advice because i'm going to have water pissing everywhere when I undo the valve so I don't want to have to have half a dozen goes getting it right....!

Hi Jon.
I take it your plan is to unscrew the cock from the female through hull.
Any chance of diving over and driving in a wooden plug before you start?
Whatever plug you choose you will be trying to fit it and turn the thread against incoming water pressure.
I would do whatever I could to avoid that.

gary

OK it's not a regular thru-hull. It's a 1/2" bsp fitting on the saildrive. The water comes in through the saildrive leg.

I assume that removal is where the risk is? See 58-1 below.

Is it really going to be hard to screw a plastic plug in? I have the hammer and wooden plug ready for emergency...!

The water pressure is not going to be like a hose on town pressure if that's your concern, but the sight of water freely flowing into your boat does get the heart rate up

Gwarn said..
Just pull the hose off the raw water pump and plug it with a wood plug or a nipple with a cap on the threaded side.

And the winner is..... Gwarn!

OK so in order to do this I would have either had to remove the hose from the tap end or rotate the whole thing with the hose removed from the pump end.

What I did was remove the hose from the water pump end and plug it with... a 1/2 inch drive socket extender with the jubilee clip to seal it off (not much sealing required actually). Then cable tied the end to something above the waterline.

Now I can get the pump off for a service and deal with the siezed CW cock another day.

Thanks all....

grich62 said..
Beaware when you jump in the water to block the inlet SD20 ,s have 2 inlets, one is a hole in the leg and the second is grilled inlet

You lot telling me to jump in the water must be up the East Coast.

Down here in Victoria it ain't jump in the water weather

grich62 said..

JonE said..

grich62 said..
Beaware when you jump in the water to block the inlet SD20 ,s have 2 inlets, one is a hole in the leg and the second is grilled inlet

You lot telling me to jump in the water must be up the East Coast.

Down here in Victoria it ain't jump in the water weather

It isn't jump in the water here ever because of crocs and sharks or stingers.

Trek said..
Is slipping the boat not practical to avoid all the stress and risk?

If I wanted to pay a thousand bucks and wait three weeks. It really wasn't a big deal!