Yep, the pipe and banjo fittings are assembled. My parts manual shows them in a drawing so I never thought to order otherwise. When they were out of stock I tried to make the front pipe from 8mm stainless pipe and the fittings I un-sweated from the old one. After all that aggravation, and having a weepy joint anyway, the price of the new ones seemed rather reasonable. The lasting benefit of that project is a leftover piece of 1/4" tubing that fits my dipstick oil pump inlet and reaches to the bottom of the fuel tank. I've pulled some watery fuel out a couple times now in the spring.
As for cleaning the bilge, I tried all sorts of soapy stuff early on, but it was always a mess.
When there was a couple inches of water from the stuffing box and half a quart of oil from the engine all happening at once, I found that letting an absorber sheet or two float in there for a few days would get 99.5% of the oil. Pull the sheets and bag them for disposal. Pump the water into a bucket, mix in some soap to lather up the last few drops. Correct me if I have sinned, but this went over the side with no sheen or residue.
Then a pretty simple soap & water scrub out of the bilge was all it took. I've had a clean sheet under the engine all season now. Just a few dirty drips from checking the oil.
I remember struggling with wrench clearance... Maybe a short adjustable opened way up? (I had a hard time finding a metric one...)
