Blown Hose, etc.

Hmmm. We did have a backfire while decellerating a few weeks ago . . . I actually wasn't driving the boat when the hose blew (I know, I know) but the driver didn't mention any major backfire.

Thanks for the help. Any recommendations on the epoxy resin or good resources for the procedure would certainly be welcome.

for the exhaust hose you need 3.5" the wire reinforced one!!

Blew a hose this weekend on our 94 Nautique. Not that big of a deal. But we noticed on the other exhaust manifold where the non-blown hose connects to the muffler, that the previous owner must have used (what looks like) JB Weld to bind the hose to the muffler. Now, it has deveoped a slow leak. I can show you pictures if someone can tell me how to post a pic that is over the 500mb size limit.


A couple of questions:
1) I'd like to replace both hoses at the same time. What can I use instead of the JB Weld? I imagine that there was a crack where the hose clamps to the muffler which no amount of hose clamps could contain so they lapped a bunch of JB Weld on there to seal it up.

2) What size of Hose do I need to replace the blown one on a 5.8L PCM? I didn't measure it before I put it back in storage and its over a half hour away.

Thanks fellas and bear with me while I try to get pictures up.