Exhaust Sleeve

[Emmo]

I typed "exhaust sleeve" into Midland Chandlers' website expecting to be taken straight to one, but no! Same with several other online chandlers. My boat (built 2001 by Ledgard Bridge) has a flexible sleeve over the exhaust pipe, fastened with press studs, which protects against burns from the hot pipe. I had assumed this was a standard arrangement, but clearly not. The sleeve is now falling apart so it needs replacing. I know about exhaust lagging, but the sleeve seems a better option. Can they be obtained anywhere?

[X Alan W]

I typed "exhaust sleeve" into Midland Chandlers' website expecting to be taken straight to one, but no! Same with several other online chandlers. My boat (built 2001 by Ledgard Bridge) has a flexible sleeve over the exhaust pipe, fastened with press studs, which protects against burns from the hot pipe. I had assumed this was a standard arrangement, but clearly not. The sleeve is now falling apart so it needs replacing. I know about exhaust lagging, but the sleeve seems a better option. Can they be obtained anywhere?

 

Look up www abthermaltech.co.uk they may have something to suit.

[Tony Brooks]

I think most steel boast use glass fibre bandage/webbing and just wrapped around the pipe several times. It can be secured by strands of copper wire taken from scrap household wiring.

 

I have seen sleeves such as you talk about around the exhaust manifolds on, shall we say, budget marinisations.

[BlueStringPudding]

My engine exhaust has the bandage type that Tony describes. My Eber exhaust has a brightly coloured sock over it which is fabric on the inside and silicon on the outside (from eBay). This is a tube though so can't be retrospectively fitted to an exhaust pipe without detaching the pipe first.

[andyb116]

Sounds like by the description of the presstudded sleeve that you have a barrus shire/shanks engine, these sleeves are unique to these engines and are only available from them as far as I know.