Update time.
Got to work on the boat some today. Decided to pull the tank hatch and see what was going on down there. Here's what I found.
It's a 50 gallon poly tank. Obviously the owner got it from a buddy, closeout sale or something to make it worth relocating the filler neck. The first thing I seen was alarming. There was water nearly to the top of the stringers all around and in the middle holes of the tank. It appears they put some foam under the tank for support during install I guess and it actually blocked all the drainage. This could of been disasterous. I couldn't see the bulkhead from the back because of the battery tray but I was able to feel around under it with a metal rod. I felt something spongy like foam and figured hell with it and rammed her in there. Pulled it out and sure enough the dam broke. It drained water continuously for a good 45 minutes.
The tank hatch has been recored which is nice I guess. Seems to be done well. I went ahead and ran a new ethanol friendly fuel line even though I don't plan on using ethanol at all.
But in more exciting news the motor is hung!!
I got the controls all hooked up, fuel system plumbed and just need to hook up the wiring at the helm. Also I need to drain the fuel out as it's raw gas and I need to premix. Was told it has roughly 20 gallons of non ethanol that was put in it 9/16 so if it don't smell too bad I'll just throw it in the pickup. I'm hoping to have it out next Sunday as it's suppose to be a beautiful day.
May pick up a gallon of epoxy resin and try injecting the deck this week. I pulled the pieces of wood he had holding the "cooler seat" in place and to my surprise the screws were in dry wood. I thought for sure that's were my soft deck came from but it doesn't appear so. It's weird because other than that there is nothing attached through the deck anywhere near the bad spot. Puzzling.
Anyways I'm glad I got this thing going in the right direction and hopefully I'll have some underway pics/vids this weekend coming up.