Agree, that's whats called Bravoits, and the fitting is not what will fix the issue

make sure you get the inconell valve on the exhaust side

Care to elaborate?

Sure, the rubber hose and plastic fitting which is screwed into the hose to seal, is where the deposits start to build. The fix removes the soft rubber hose and replaces it with plastic and seal bushing. This usually only happens with salt water drives. I replaced my 95 Rinker (100% fresh water) with the fix during new bellows time and mine was fine.
https://forums.iboats.com/forum/engi...bravo-itis-fix

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I thought using the aluminum housing and gasket in that link I posted up, you arent using ANY of that any more??

Well the pic wiped out what I said

The housing and fitting from CP looks nice but does not fix the issue anymore then using the plastic original one with a new gasket. The plastic tube is what fixes the issue by keeping deposits from collecting

You use the same top fitting just different hose

I found those same brackets in stainless on ebay for not a lot of money, going on 4 years they look great, still a big FU to Mercury for continuing to make them out of steel in the first place.

I guess Im not really clear on how the plumbing is on that. I thought the original had a hose coming out of the transom assembly, and to seal it used that black ferrule with 4 grooves in it you use the special tool to turn it in to install - and you pull all of that out with the CP piece

From the sea pump to the drive pickup itself how does it go then? Pump, then hose that goes on the factory plastic housing with a barb? (one i was going to replace with CP housing) then that wierd 4 groove ferrule you need tool to screw in out? Is that length of hose pictured for the run after that, through the transom and into the drive?

Also found this repair kit - CP Performance - Bravo Water Inlet Repair Kit

http://www.glmmarine.com/pdf/Instru-47230.pdf