- Location
- Chesterfield, MI
Im about to lower my exhaust tube in my RN to clear my foothold. How much can I lower it and how do I get the flange on the outside to side flat against the hull?
Lowering Exhaust Tube
- Thread starter Rotorhead65
- Start date
haggis
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- Location
- Orkney (northern scotland)
Have you already installed footholds?
Depending on how much you lower it, you could just hammer the flange back into shape. If you're like me and lower it a lot because you want your holds so far forward, then the tube will be longer due to less of an angle and you'll be hard pressed to bend the flange. Well doesn't really make it longer but makes it protrude into the engine bay more and then you have to cut it anyway. I just cut the flange off and slid the tube out about an inch and put 5200 around it. Has been working perfect every since. Either way, you'll want to use 5200 to seal it and prevent water from getting in.
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- Location
- Chesterfield, MI
Im in the defoam process. I want to cut a new hole in the bulkhead and reinstall the exhaust tube. My thought was to lower it as much as I can and if thats not enough then I will cut out my foothold. Yes i am mounting them forward a decent amount.
- Location
- South Florida
Crab is right. Just rotate it. I dropped mine a ton and it worked fine.