SoCal Jet Boats
Tech Talk => Hulls => Topic started by: GlassCutter on January 07, 2009, 01:11:09 PM
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There is a threaded aluminum? tube that my steering runs out thru to my pump nozzle. The rubber is old enough that water is leaking in so it needs to be replaced. My question is: How many styles of these are there? The replacement Tom sent is just a straight tube like a PVC coupling. Without taking mine out, it looks like it might have a big "shoulder" on it. Any input would be great . . .
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My old one was formed like your talking about. When I got the new one, a straight piece of rubber, my thoughts were like yours. I installed it, just set the tubing in the grooves in the nuts and tighten. The tubing compresses and seals like its supposed to, but seems to be kind of a half ass way of doing it. Mine are less than a year old and are already cracked, will see how long before they leak.
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Yeah it looks really undersized to do the job, but I have a pretty good leak going right now with the old one the way it is. Thanks for the help.
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I'm going to "out" myself as a random Hillbilly... ::) I used the tapered rubber washer that is under your bathroom sink - the one that plugs into the bottom of the sink bowl itself. Not going to win any best of show awards but it works and fits real well.
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Now that's the kind of info I can appreciate!!! Thanks, I will definately look into that.
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Don't even get me started on those stupid things !! I spent hours fighting with that stupid rubber tube/grommet the other day :mad:. Couldn't get it to expand on both sides of the transom plate :banghead: :banghead:. Finally took it back off and stomped on it a few times (to show it who's the boss ::)) , then it worked ;D
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Hey hey hey Propless -- you are pissing in my cornflakes here. :mad: This job looks so easy, don't tell me otherwise OK? ::)
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Ya I had a hell of a time when i replaced mine also :banghead: Took it apart 2 or 3 times cause I didnt like the way it looked :screwy: So 1 tube of clear silicone on, in, around, under, over, hell you name it I GOT ER DONE ;D ;D ;D
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Hey hey hey Propless -- you are pissing in my cornflakes here. :mad: This job looks so easy, don't tell me otherwise OK? ::)
Well according to the "experts" it should be easy. ::) I think my problem was that I might have made the hole in the transom plate juuuust a little to big :banghead: . You should get it to expand on both sides of the plate, and don't over tighten it, it needs to be able to move a bit. My problem was just as it would start to expand it would slip to either the inside or outside :mad:. But once I showed it who was in charge it gave up and worked. ;) ;D
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Ya I had a hell of a time when i replaced mine also :banghead: Took it apart 2 or 3 times cause I didnt like the way it looked :screwy: So 1 tube of clear silicone on, in, around, under, over, hell you name it I GOT ER DONE ;D ;D ;D
Yup sillycone ran thru my brain but it seemed, oh I dunno, maybe a little O0 but then again who would know? >:D
It seems like it might work for a few years.
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Yup sillycone ran thru my brain but it seemed, oh I dunno, maybe a little O0 but then again who would know? >:D
It seems like it might work for a few years.
Yup Glassy, for me its been 2 years, and no leakage ;D and with the clear who sees it :sly:
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Come on guys, good old American home brewed engineering does not need to be hand full of sillycone smeared all over something :banghead: .
I remember one year watching the 24hour race at Le Mans (on TV) and the Audi teem changed a broken trans axle in something like 5min, a little later the Cadillac teems fix for (i believe) a coolant leak was to literally smear a hand full of sillycone on the motor and go back out. :'(
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good ole sillycone,been around a long time ;D in fact what I bring along on road trips, besides the ole faithful DUCT TAPE ;D ;D is a tube of good ole sillycone ;D ;D
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OK I'm gonna jack my own thread but I love this story. My buddy and his wife are on there way to Canada from SoCal to visit her family driving a 1969 Dodge Charger. Somewhere in Utah the fan just comes apart and tears up the radiator something awful. He whips out the JBWeld and patches it up and fills it with GRAPE SODA. They got several hundred miles like that until they could find a new radiator in SLC. Lucky thing Mopars run coooool.
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was a cool way to jack your own thread ;D its nice when a plan comes together ;D
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Although we are sort of "stuck with it" (the design) we have never liked the way the OEM steer tube bushing works , most times that little rubber tube can effectivly be "rolled , hour glass shape" on either side of the transom adaptor with the special nuts , if replaced with just about anything else or overtightened , the steering shaft tends to bind as the tiller requires a small amount of side to side movement to function properly. Someday when my genius kid has time away from the grindstone maybe he can "build a better moustrap" When I set him on improving the OE cable seal he did good ! Tom
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Pssst Josh -- this is your conscience talking. Who is this old guy and why is he always working you so hard? You don't need him slowing you down, always making $$$ off of your hard work. Send him back up on the roof and plug sumthin' in to give him a good jolt. >:D No body will know, no one will care unless the smoking corpse falls on someone LOL.
Nevermind me, I'm off the meds today ;D Luv u guyz at JBP :-* Hope to get back up there this summer. Talking to Don and Shannon Brimage over the weekend, Don says to say Hi!
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Come on guys, good old American home brewed engineering does not need to be hand full of sillycone smeared all over something :banghead: .
I remember one year watching the 24hour race at Le Mans (on TV) and the Audi teem changed a broken trans axle in something like 5min, a little later the Cadillac teems fix for (i believe) a coolant leak was to literally smear a hand full of sillycone on the motor and go back out. :'(
i saw that race too! the Audi team was fricken unbelievable! :o