98 GTX Limited taking on water

[3beers2many]

Well here it goes. After a 45 minute ride the other day I pulled the seat and found about 4" of water in the hull. The next day I went out again with the same result. So I pulled the seat to see If I could locate the leak. Once I his 30mph one of my bailer tubes started to spray a good size stream of water around the connection in the back of the boat where the tubes connect to fitting in the hull. I tried to fix the leak with a new zip tie but I couldn't seem to get it tight enough to stop the leak. Here are my questions:

1. Is it ok to use a hose clamp on these connections? I see that the factory used zip ties on the whole bailer system.

2. I'm not 100% clear on how the bailer system works other then a vacuum being created by negative pressure.. but wouldn't I have to have water in the hull before the bailer tubes had water in them? I other words I know the bailer system leaks but it seems like the water is entering another way.

On a side note the 90 degree elbows are zip tied up in the top back corner of the ski so I don't believe the bailers ar working in reverse.

When I was riding without the seat The only leak I could see was from the bailer system so at this point I'm at a loss. As far as I can tell water only enters when I'm on the move.

Anyone have any ideas?

Thanks!
-Brit

 

[3beers2many]

sorry guys wrong forum... I will move. Please close this thread.

 

[seadoodude1]

You are probably missing one of those plastic nozzles in the pump. Look inside the pump from the rear and you should see two small plastic nozzles, one for each bailer.