Gamefisher Water pump hose alignment/installation

[FishnMachine]

Hi,

I just replaced the impeller on my 7.5 gamefisher (217.586753) but am having problems re-installing the drive shaft and water tube.  How the heck do you get both of them to line up?  I can get the drive shaft by itself, but whenever I put the water tube in, it will not go in all the way.  Is there an O-ring at the top of the tube that should hold the tube in place while sliding the bottom into the water pump housing?  Everytime I get the tube into place, it just fits loose and kind of sits there.  This is the last bit I need to finish before finally being able to hit the water.  Any and all suggestions are welcome.  Thanks.

P.S. - much easier working with the engine sitting upside down on the ground.  Feeding the shaft down instead of trying to hold it up saves on the back.

[moloch16]

You might want to try your question at the iboats.com forums.  There seems to be some real experts lurking on those forums.

http://forums.iboats.com/forumdisplay.php?f=27

Regards

[FishnMachine]

Thanks for the reply.  After 6 hours of messing around with it, I found that the tube was bent, just a little bit.  This prevented the tube from going in straight and properly seated.  Once I tweaked the tube a little bit, it kind of "snapped" into the power head.  Then the rest was easy.  Hope this helps anyone else trying to accomplish this for the first time.