Anyone know what kind of drive showers/hoses these are?

Looks like some redneck backwoods shadetree homeade stuff to me.

Those are air hoses, commonly seen on airbrakes and the likes for larger trucks. They are made of plastic or nylon, or a combo of both. Those are push-fit couplers. Your larger Napa stores have some of this stuff, but not on the shelf. You have to ask about it.

The stainless tubes on top of the drives, is that part of this retro-fit or is this setup just missing the stainless tubing which is commonly installed?

This is a boat I'm going to look at (maybe purchase). A Formula 292. I would assume you guys would recommend replacing these? If so, what would I replace them with...?

I did some googling...CP Performance Sport-tech, Marine Industries, and Rex Marine drive showers seem to come up.

AWESOME is what they are!!!!

Haha. I'm sure they do what they're intended. Not the most elegant design though. If I buy the boat, I just hope the hole in the lower unit where that thing is poking through isn't too big if I was to install another brand...like Marine Industries (Dana) or something...http://www.marineindustrieswest.com/...9&CFTOKEN=1800

Rob

I admire the person that put this "plumbing" together. If you decide to replace the drive shower -- I'm a VERY strong supporter for drive showers - they let the drive run much cooler. This keeps the "scale" off and most likely extends the life of the oil. If you decide to modify this to an off the shelf shower - the challenge that you may have is the water pick up. It looks like that was likewise homemade. As a result you could have a larger hole than is really needed.

I'm just throwing this out -- I HAVE NO EXPERIENCE WITH THIS-- but if that is the case- you may want to try and use some of the liquid weld material - fill in the holes - re-paint and then drill to fit a new water pick up. I purchased my shower from All American Outdrive Service in Michigan. If you check out their web site you can see what they offer. If I had to do it all over again - I would have selected a Simrek type- I just think they look a little cleaner and you don't have to drill any holes in the outdrive plate.

All the very best with the boat- Without sounding condescending - if the prior owner did some "personal rigging" you may want to see what other home remedies he/she installed-- that may cause some additional expense down the road if they need repair.

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Ya, if I was to get the boat I would no doubt get a proper drive shower. Your statement above is not condescending it's very much fact. It actually concerns me a bit. It didn't occur to me that it was a home remedy until another forum member (Ted) pointed it out.

When I fix my stuff at home I'm always one to get components from OEM vs 3rd party, some applications I'll use 3rd party, depends on the situation, but I rarely retrofit like that...especially on a boat like this one. Like filling the gas tank would cost 3 times what 2 awesome drive showers would cost. Lol

FormulaCanada

Thank you for the response. So often I read comments that take offense to what one boater may do to their boat compared to another - I do stuff to my boat that I know others wouldn't find acceptable or even consider normal -- like scrub out the bilge a couple a times a season- not that it is oiled filled or dirty - it's just I like a clean bilge, wax the boat at least 2/season-- something nice about a shinny boat and wash the windows almost every time we go out-- get the bugs off. Therefore, there is a lot of pride in these home grown methods- and some take offense to criticism of them.

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I installed Latham showers on my 292, but they are made to work with their plate that mounts on top of the drive for hydraulic steering.

One thing I noticed in your picture is the shower is mounted on the wrong side of the cavitation plate. The instructions on the Latham shower were very specific in that the water pick-up should be mounted on the side of the cavitation plate that sees the 'upswing' of the propeller. This not only helps force more water up the tube to cool the drive, but is also eliminates the potential for the pick-up to cause prop cavitation by sucking air on the down swing. Hope that makes sense.

unless they were changed to spin in but the props don't seem to indicate that.