Pearson Boats - Common Systems > Standing & Running Rigging and Fitting/Tuning
Loose Bonding wire
T_schlueter:
I found this loose bonding stud the other day. It's in the bilge near the engine raw water through hull. The stud just pulls right out. It may have broke away from something buried in the fiberglass like a bonding strip of some sort. The other end of the wire is attached to the engine. I replaced the seacock a few years ago and am pretty sure it wasn't connected to this wire. I'm not sure how to fix this. I've attached pics.
chuck stas:
was that on the inside of the keel ??
T_schlueter:
Well, sort of. It's portside wall of the bilge above the keel looking to stern.
Alma:
Look at all the metal items in bilge and insure they are bonded. This may be the engine water inlet bonding lug. Pearson bonded every through hull. They even bonded my plastic through hull to the anchor locker above the water line.
T_schlueter:
Is it safe to assume there is nothing inside the bilge wall that that stud was specifically screwed to that needed to be bonded? I'm thinking that stud is there as a means to attach a jumper wire to the through hull ball valve a few inches from it. What's the best way to attach the wire to the valve without removing the valve? I've attached a picture that I thought I had attached earlier.
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