Will this fit my 03 SANTE - Fake a Lake

[obd666]

This is what we used when I worked at West Coast Correct Craft. We took an extra strainer and drilled a hole on the bottom and put a garden hose fitting on it. Then just unscrew the existing strainer off, screw in the modified one and hook up a hose (I have a quick disconnect on mine at home so, it doesn't leak out the water when removing the hose). This way you're not worried about having to jam the fake a lake under the boat and getting wet and dirty.

http://www.skidim.com/BOWL-CLEAR-WAT...info/SHE14380/

That is a cool idea, but the strainer on an 03 is a pain in the *** to take off and not in a good spot to attach a hose ...


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[NautiqueJeff]

Jeff, did you leave the strainer basket it or remove it when you used this method? I would assume using clean water from the hose the strainer wouldn’t be necessary.

This isn't mine. This is a picture that I remembered seeing posted earlier from Superior Boat Repair and Sales in California.

[dhanni848]

My hopes were building up and then obd666 you crushed them haha

[obd666]

My hopes were building up and then obd666 you crushed them haha

lol, you would rather me break it to you than learn the hard way though ... am also not crazy about it having one side potentially sucking in air.

anyway, it's real easy like i mentioned above to just disconnect the top side of the transmission cooler and attach a piece of clear hose with another clamp. It's in a good, easy to access spot. Can then just run that into a cooler full of water being fed by the hose, or just make a fitting to directly attach the hose. nothing to it, would cost like $10 in total

[DW SD]

Fellas - the $60 brass setup I built from mcmaster parts is cheap and the same thing as a hose on the strainer. And add a 5' remote hose to it and you can thread the water source hose in a very convenient location. My inlet hose lays in the storage locker. Just disconnect the hose plug and thread in the garden hose.

It does the same thing as the strainer setup. Water fills the strainer intake through the brass tee and until the raw water pump creates a vacuum, it dumps the water out the hull strainer.

Hope this helps! Cheers,

Doug

[functionoverfashion]

That is a cool idea, but the strainer on an 03 is a pain in the *** to take off and not in a good spot to attach a hose ...


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My strainer is up high, mounted to the cross piece just behind the back seat, near the pylon. I had a hard time spinning the bowl off it, but it's easy enough to reach... do you mean that where it's mounted makes it hard to spin off the bowl and put on a modified one with the hose fitting? I was thinking also of just putting on a hose fitting to the strainer bowl and then a shut-off valve, and a section of hose from there. I haven't looked closely enough at the strainer to see if that would work - I don't know if there's enough room inside with the screen filter too. Maybe that's the problem with that idea.

There are lots of ways to go about this. I used to always use a method similar to obd666, as we had a few hose ends made up for different sizes. This year I just dumped a/f into the hose that feeds the transmission cooler and then the engine, while running the engine at idle - a bit tricky but it was only to get a/f into the engine, not run it continuously.

Doug's method seems like a nice way to have a permanent setup, which I would really like to have. And there, again, I'd just put on a ball valve to close it when not in use. This seems like the simplest permanent solution.