Originally Posted by Sweet Nmocean

I ran into the same thing on mine and I used stainless steel tubing I made up, it was easy and free since I work at a power plant I have access to a complete machine shop at work and I have even had the machinist custom make some outdrive parts.

Originally Posted by olysan

Thanks for the advice guys. I'm not looking to skimp. I'm really looking for the best way to connect a line between two 1 1/4" hose nipples, and pvc seemed like the best alternative to a "molded hose".

Seems to me that regardless of wether I use PVC, copper, or stainless the weak link will be the connection to the cooler which will be 1 1/4" hose with a hose clamp.