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[2500HD]

Don't rely on the hose clamp to hold it in place. Your mounting brackets need to do this job for you. This is where i'm having difficulty coming up with a good bracket design. Right now the ghetto bailing wire i used will keep it from moving back, I also used to pieces of plywood sandwiched around the center swimdeck bracket to keep it from moving upwards. It is rock solid. I think i have a design that will look better and still be solid, but until i have time to really mess with it i won't know. If i were ya'll i would concentrate on the mounting of it and Making that bomber and less on a rubber coupling.
I just realized that in the picture i posted it is very hard to see the bailing wire i have going to the wake plate brackets. This is what keeps it from moving back.

[trayson]

Don't rely on the hose clamp to hold it in place. Your mounting brackets need to do this job for you. This is where i'm having difficulty coming up with a good bracket design. Right now the ghetto bailing wire i used will keep it from moving back, I also used to pieces of plywood sandwiched around the center swimdeck bracket to keep it from moving upwards. It is rock solid. I think i have a design that will look better and still be solid, but until i have time to really mess with it i won't know. If i were ya'll i would concentrate on the mounting of it and Making that bomber and less on a rubber coupling.
I just realized that in the picture i posted it is very hard to see the bailing wire i have going to the wake plate brackets. This is what keeps it from moving back.

I can see the bailing wire in the middle that's lashing it to the center swim platform bracket. Do you also have it lashed to the struts on the wakeplate?? I can't quite tell exactly how you have it tied down with the resolution of the pic.

[2500HD]

It is lashed to both struts of the wake plate. Making the unit so it can't move is key.

[kvand347]

FWIW--I did strap mine down using steel straps from Lowes that are made for 3" PVC. I attached 2 of them like I showed in the picture and then another 2 on each elbow. When complete, I pulled hard on it from every angle and it moved maybe 1/4".

I give up for this year, but I might revisit this project for next year. My season is almost over and I'm back to work...