Gluvit?

I sold my old 14 ft and bought a Lund 16ft that I'm looking at redoing. Had it out a couple of times last year and had to run the bilge pump so I think there's some bad rivets. I looked underneath it and the PO tried to silicone the ribs. So my question is can I gluvit the bottom without flipping it over? To heavy! Has anybody done this? Don't want to tear out the floor this year if I don't have to. Any advice would be great.

Gluvit is designed to flow into crack, seams, rivets, ect. You can't apply it upside down and expect it to work. It works best if you use it on the inside of the boat to seal leaks. I am using it on my build. I did the inside over the summer when the fish were about. Started the redo in the fall and used some on the bottom when I had it flipped over. Check out my build and you can see what I did. Good luck, hope that helped a bit.

How do you guys suggest flipping it over? do I have to take the motor off as well? I was hoping for an easy way out but guess not

[url=https://www.tinboats.net/forum/viewtopic.php?p=341375#p341375 said:

BEER TIME » Sun Feb 09, 2014 9:46 pm[/url]"]How do you guys suggest flipping it over? do I have to take the motor off as well? I was hoping for an easy way out but guess not

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Gluvit goes on the inside of the boat.

But I have heard of a lot of people put it on the outside, is this not the right way? Or not the best way. I just didn't want to redo the whole boat this year

[url=https://www.tinboats.net/forum/viewtopic.php?p=341379#p341379 said:

BEER TIME » 09 Feb 2014, 23:14[/url]"]But I have heard of a lot of people put it on the outside, is this not the right way? Or not the best way. I just didn't want to redo the whole boat this year

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Drift boat guys use Gluvit on the outside of their boats to help make it slicker so that it slides over rocks. They are not using it to seal leaks. If you want to put it on the bottom of your boat you have to flip it. Before you flip the motor has to come off.

Right or wrong I used it on the inside and outside of my boat then painted over it.

[url=https://www.tinboats.net/forum/viewtopic.php?p=341406#p341406 said:

simbelle » 10 Feb 2014, 09:38[/url]"]Right or wrong I used it on the inside and outside of my boat then painted over it.

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I did the same. I just think it's most effective on the inside.

Same as above...

I put 95% of mine inside, on the main center seam, and along the transom "U" seam.

I did also put a nice coat around the outside of the transom seam just to be sure. I did notice some drippings on the floor, but wasnt substantial. I went easy with it.

I think in your case though... Find where the rivets are, correlate them to the inside (if you can get to them) and apply gluvit there.

Based on what it is "supposed" to do, I would imagine it could plug those leaky rivets right up.

Your best fix will be to replace the leaky rivets, you can do this on the outside of the boat with the boat upright like this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L0MA1-5NXjs&feature=related

Gluvit is desingned to be applied to the inside of the boat like others have already said, and to apply it to the inside of your boat properly not only will you have to remove the decking... you'll also have to remove and replace your floatation foam.

Trying to fix leaky rivets with goos and paint type products applied to the outside of a boat doesn't work for long... if at all. It's what people that don't know what they're doing do when their rivets start leaking, and then they wonder why it didn't work.

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