Trim Tube???

[dbrutherford]

Try McMaster Carr

 

[Mark44]

Just take a bit and weld a rod to it or if you don't have a welder take it to a local shop.

Mark44

 

[GIL]

I already bought 12" bit extensions from homo depot. They are 6.00 each and 8.00 for the bit itself which gets a total of 30" which is plenty from what I can tell. Total of 20.00 for 2 extensions and a bit. Not bad IMO.

 

[luisdeleon]

have you tried a steel whearhouse, local welder will tell you where. or welding store. you'll find the aluminum there. some salvage places sell steel and also have alumn.

 

[McDog]

Posting so I can find the mcmaster part # for later use.

 

[Fro Diesel]

Cuz scupper suck azz! Thats my story for this week and I am sticking with it!
I'm sure I will change my mind next week and put 1 in. LOL I did place my tube for duckbill in location where w/I change my mind I can make the hole alot bigger and not F anything up.

ps-I got my ski staying fairly dry w/the Diablo hood kit and my 'special' hood seal. I can stab and sub and fountain for 10 min straight and bilge will only spit water for a few seconds. I just ran the duck bill for those 'O-CHIT' moments w/the bilge switch decides to short out and not come on.

got to have the one way valves, i wouldn't have put one in but it came with the ski i bought. About 2 days into daytona my bilge wires all shorted out cuz of teh damn salt. I rode the rest of the weekend without a bilge, no problems and my ski takes on lots of water from numerous holes in the hood/bracket mounting area and just overall lack of sealing hood. who needs a bilge?

 

[steel horse]

Nice tube ideas

 

[starter kill]

i just drilled a small hole and ran the cable through without useing a tube, then 5200 the crap out of both ends. seems to be doing fine.

 

[nokfir]

u bought a whole thrust kit and brian didnt send you the tube? he sells 2ft pieces of stainless tubes. got mine from him.

 

[steel horse]

I got a kit from X-Scream and it came with an aluminum tube, but there's no way to seal the cable so water can not come inside the engine compartment. So, I was looking for ways to seal it to keep water out, other than just siliconing the cable inside the tube because eventually that will fail.

 

[Shifty]

I used a ½” PVC and on the inside of the engine bay I put a ½” female coupling and on the end of the coupling I installed a seal tight cord grip McMaster #69915K54. Easy to pull the cable out if needed.

This looks like the solution here, clean and serviceable.