Quote Originally Posted by ghebert1111 View Post
I was able to get the IBS in the boat and filled using a fake-a-lake. It's been sitting for an hour and I've noticed 2 things:
1. The ballast intake(under the boat) is and continues to leak water in pretty large amounts, it is keeping my driveway wet and it is sunny and 68 out. Is this a bad impeller in my ballast pump? What else can cause this?
2. Water is filling the bilge and it seems to be coming from the center tank/IBS. It isn't leaking at the rate it would need to, to fill my bilge to what I'm seeing after a couple of hours surfing, but it is definitely leaking.
As the ballast impellor wears it starts to leak out. Usually the center ballast drains the most for me requiring me to bump the pump on every now and to keep the front ballast full. The bilge coming on is completely normal, especially when surfing and extra ballast. On continuously is bad, on every 5 or more minutes isn't.