The water is just forced up the hose and out through an outlet in the transom no pump . The pump is now sucking water through the transom pickup.

That is correct, water is forced through the transome pick-up to your engine mounted pump.


Should you choose to add a drive shower, it has nothing to do with your other water supply or pump. It's mounted by itself on your outdrive and has a little lead hanging in the water which the water is forced up through and then just dumps the water on top of your outdrive for cooling the top bearing.

Jon

There is quite a bit of water presure from a transom mounted pickup. I know thie because I now have one with a sea strainer. The other weekend I opened the strainer to clean it out, and didn't tighten the lid enough. Water was spraying from the glass lid (with rubber seal) all over the engine comparnment. And I did strew it down to what I thought was tight. Not so!

Here is a pick of my pickup and strainer.

what size , i need 1 , how much..

The Latham design looks great, & very simple to install. I've decided to leave the drive pick up figured the way it is, I will simply run a hose from the fitting inside to a thru hull fitting to dump it over board. I think that is the easiest, & just a bit of insurance for the drive. I've searched, & can't seem to find solid info on whether the drive has to have water going thru it. I also do plan on a drive shower install.

Dump the water from the drive back on top of the drive if you can! The more water on the drive the beter!

I think there is a bit of confusion on this thread ,rangerrick was talking about using the drive pickups for a drive shower and adding a transom mounted pickup for engine cooling, i think he was.Rangerrick if you want to get a drive shower alot of aftermarket dealers have them, they mount on the drive on the out side of the boat.

Rangerrick after reading your post you cant just tap into your cooling water fitting to dump water on your drive , this water is intended for the engine. If you want to cool your drive purchase a drive shower.

Canada jeff how much dialing in was needed to adjust the length or depth of your transom mounted pickup and why did you elect to go with one, Thanks CODERED

I completely tore my bravo drive apart to change the water pump and couldn't find it anywhere. What should I do?