How to remove ballast senders?

[AirJeff]

Just wondering if anyone has an easy way to remove the ballast senders from an '02 Air? Sounds simple enough, but they are burried under the side/deck of the boat. So, to get them out it seems I'll need to pull the tanks. Which leads to the next question, is there an easy way to pull the ballast tanks? The tanks in our boat wrap around the rear seat....So to get out the tanks the seat, seat supports, gas tank and shower valve all need to be removed. I'm hoping there is some easy way to get the senders out! Thanks!

[skinautique]

RE: How to remove ballast senders?

should just be able to unscrew them from the top of the tank and then pull the senders out. No need to remove the tanks from the boat.

[nms1991]

RE: How to remove ballast senders?

Sorry ski but he needs to remove the tanks to get those out, a real bugger of ones to replace not like the 03 and up versions.

[AirJeff]

RE: How to remove ballast senders?

If I can get all the screws out the senders would only pull up a few inches and then hit the underside of the deck. Yellow_Flash_Colorz:

So, the question is, do I have to remove the rear seat, seat supports, fuel tank... to get the balast tanks out?

[EarlyRiser]

RE: How to remove ballast senders?

Air, once u access the b/tank, in lieu of pulling it ENTIRELY out, u can pull 1 end out far enough past the deck & access the sender. It will probably require loosening one side of the tank's hardware & completely unfastening the end you pull out into the cockpit.

[AirJeff]

RE: How to remove ballast senders?

Thanks for the idea, I'll try that! The tanks might get stuck because they wrap around the sides of the back seat (the tanks wrap completely to the front of the rear seat), but it would be cool if it worked!