Exhaust Port Transom: Any Information on Replacing on a 1990 Ski Nautique?

[SkiDog Sports]

Need install information on replacing a broken Exhaust Port Transom on a 1990 Ski Nautique. Can anyone help? Any idea how anyone could have broken the original one?

[wakejunky]

https://www.nautiqueparts.com/produc...-port-transom/

[ScooterMcgavin]

To change it, you’ll have to access the back of the exhaust port and unhook exhaust, then should be able to remove screws holding exhaust port in, remove the port and clean off old marine sealant, install new exhaust port with some new marine sealant and screws, hook exhaust back up and install a flapper from Nautique parts.
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[NautiqueJeff]

Is it really broken? Looks like it might just be missing the flapper.

[SkiDog Sports]

Thanks for the response everybody! I just joined minutes ago and already I got Great Input!
WakeJunky - Thanks for the Parts Information!
ScooterMcGavin - Awesome! Thanks for talking me through it!
NautiqueJeff - Thanks for being an Administer of a Great Site! Yes...I thought the same thing! But the flange that holds the flapper is cleanly broken off. I ordered the part a couple weeks ago, and when I got it, you can clearly see the flange was broken off.

Anybody...any idea how the heck it gets broken off so cleanly?

Thanks,

Dave

[functionoverfashion]

As far as how it got broken, do you trailer this boat only? Or does it ever get handled by a forklift at a marina?

[SkiDog Sports]

FunctionOverFashion - That’s a Great Question! Never thought of That! I bought the boat used last fall before the freeze, and now we are just taking it out and getting used to it. I don’t know if it was ever forked, but that would certainly do it! Thanks! Dave

[SkiDog Sports]

Oh...Thanks for all the Help Guys! Here is Heidi, Me, & Our New to Us 1990 Correct Craft Ski Nautique!

[functionoverfashion]

I don’t know if it was ever forked, but that would certainly do it! Thanks! Dave

I mean... *could* do it... hopefully most of the time the forks do no harm at all! But I've driven one enough to know that it's possible. (I may have also dinged my OWN boat with a forklift before)

[SilentSeven]

See you're in Covington - was that the one owner boat for sale on Lake Stevens?

[SkiDog Sports]

SilentSeven - Don’t Know! I picked it up at a business in Redmond where it was stored. Originally it was purchased from Doug’s Inboard Boats by two Slalom Skiers. Only 234 Original Hours! Only 5 years newer than the first Correct Craft Ski Nautique 2001 I purchased New in 1985! What a Trip!

[SilentSeven]

hmm..odd. There was (is?) one that looks just like that was just for sale in the Seattle area. Craigslist - posting now down. Pretty sure it had a bunch more hours than yours but sure looks the same. Red one owner 1990 with a PP setup and very clean. Pretty boat...love that color and style. What lake do you mostly run on?

[STSCowboy]

My 89 2001 looks identical. I’m assuming the fuel tank needs to be pulled out to access the exhaust clamps to remove this broken part. Is this true or is there enough give to remove the four screws and pull out the exhaust flange out to gain access to the clamp?