What does this hose do?
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Agreed, that is the intended purpose of the hose. I ran my 35 with the hose closed off this past season, a number of back to back runs, and honestly saw little if any difference in the on plane ability. On many #6 drive setups they do a similar deal to vent the large props to help them break loose and spin up to help get on plane. My boat was breaking loose coming on plane and I wondered if closing this off might help, like said it was little help if any at all.
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I don't think that Fountain did this during your model year, my '99 35 did not have them. Possibly a previous owner installed them. I would suggest that you pick up a couple thru hull fittings and rout them out the hull sides just for the safety issue. Were they to come loose and drop below the water line they would allow a lot of water to come real quick. My current boat only has one of these hoses, it is routed to the port side of the hull near the bilge pump fitting, it also has a ball valve where it comes thru the hull to allow it to be closed off there as well.
Last edited by RaggedEdge; 02-06-2009 at 06:59 AM.