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Is there a way to use jet pumps to fill ballast?

Speedling

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Bought a bag last year. Hope to use it in Cumberland this weekend. Gonna borrow my bil pump but thought of someone's super soaker attachment and hoped to use that idea.
 
That was where I got the idea for the jet pump squirt gun....from Trace's pump attachment to fill ballast bags.
 
Searched but I think my terms are all too long, lol. I will start going through traces build.
 
I thought about at one point using the warm discharge water going to the pee holes to file bags. Would make a nice ballast bag radiator in cooler weather.
 
The 190 FSH uses the undrilled pickup on the pump housing for its jet powered wash down. I believe this fitting is also used for the spray behind wave runners.
 
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