Problems with GIII Upgrade (Pump Hose Connection & Through-Hulls)
So two issues came up last night:
1) I had finished my through-hulls on Sunday and let them sit for a couple days for the silicon adhesive to cure. When I attached the new valves on and tightened down, the outer "male" end started to slip and turn with the inner valve I had just attached. So far it's slipped about a quarter turn, I left it after that hoping to get advice here or from Wakemakers. It happened on both of my new through-hulls. Are those seals now effectively broken? I need to remove the fittings, scrape off the adhesive and redo? To be clear the inner hold down nut, which I also put some silicon on, did not move, just the outer.
As a follow-up question to that, do you need 2 people to do this part of the install? One guy under the boat with some sort of tool locked on the inside edges of the through-hull fitting, preventing it from turning, and one guy on the inside with a wrench tightening down the inner nut? Did I just go get too aggressive trying for a tight fit with my valves? I got them to hand tight and then took a wrench for another turn or so.
2) I moved on after that and got all my 1" ballast hose routed throughout. I then tried to work the hose onto the brass inlet/outlet of the Johnson Pumps. What techniques are people using to do this? I had already mounted the pumps above my V drive, on the back of the wall separator but could not get the hose all the way onto the brass nozzles. I'd get maybe 1/2" onto the nozzle and then the white-hardened portion of the hose cross section would catch and jam on the pump nozzles outer lip. The harder you tried to manhandle it, the more of ridge would form and deform the hose.
I tried using a heatgun, but found that although it helped make the end more flexible, it would then deform the pipe and create, new, bumps/ridges that would further impede.
I tried using some dishwashing soap to lubricate both the hose and the fitting. It didn't seem to make much difference or dried too quickly, I'm not sure.
Is there a tool or method that I'm missing with these brass nozzles? Never had such difficulty with ballast fittings before. It feels as if the nozzles are made for 1 1/8" diameter ballast hose.