the floor guy
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OK so i have 2 XP's 98 and 00 and i have 3 kids i want to be able to ride with one kid on with me. my to younger ones its not so bad but if i put my wife or 13 year old daughter on with me my xp's are way way to unstable, me and my wife already had nightmare episode where we flipped it and couldnt get back on together. i want to sell or trade at least one ski and get something more stable,
so i been talking to guy that has a 98 gtx and will trade me for my 00 XP talking to him on the phone he told me runs great and it has a rebuilt SBT motor that was put in last year so out of warranty but says only like 6 hours on it, so i meet up with him at the lake, he gets there and im looking at his ski, it looks real clean well taken care of inside and out, could eat off the motor. But his motor was already warm, the hour meter says like 184 but i noticed a sticker inside the hull that said top end 4/1/11 176hr So i look at his and then hes like well lets put them in the water but he didnt want to look at mine out of water. put them in water its calm water and i ride his. it feels so much more stable then my XP, it does feel little more lose when u get going fast but still stable and turns lot sharper. maybe im being paranoid but on way back in threw no wake just coasting and i was thinking it kinda sounded sputtering or cutting out some at 2500 rpms but sounded normal at idle and 3000+. it felt fine ridding it.
my daughter was there with him while i was ridding it and said he just looked at it, opened hood and started it. he never seemed like he had to or wanted to ride it, it was getting dusk out tho and he said its to late now
idk i think im just being paranoid but worries me trading good running ski for something might end up being problem. but guess that is risk with anything even buying another different used one. when if i dont get info that make me back out, we meet again im going to do a compression test, the two auto parts store buy me have bad loaner meters.
guy seemed real honest talking to him, idk im thinking the whole top end rebuild sticker thing to him saying it was sbt rebuild worries me. as well as it already being warm engine. im so uneasy idk if i should trade i know my 00 books for more then his 98 but at same time dont think i can sell it for same price i can find one for. ive been looking night and day. i went to talk to someone about selling my 98 i was asking 2800 bad vts module not motor, not that u need it but they tried talking me down to 21 then 2400 max saying it blue books at $1950
i do remember him saying he upped the carb jetting one on so the throttle is more responsive
whats your thoughts?
i was looking into maybe a step for my xp but still just dont know if i think its stable enough
so i been talking to guy that has a 98 gtx and will trade me for my 00 XP talking to him on the phone he told me runs great and it has a rebuilt SBT motor that was put in last year so out of warranty but says only like 6 hours on it, so i meet up with him at the lake, he gets there and im looking at his ski, it looks real clean well taken care of inside and out, could eat off the motor. But his motor was already warm, the hour meter says like 184 but i noticed a sticker inside the hull that said top end 4/1/11 176hr So i look at his and then hes like well lets put them in the water but he didnt want to look at mine out of water. put them in water its calm water and i ride his. it feels so much more stable then my XP, it does feel little more lose when u get going fast but still stable and turns lot sharper. maybe im being paranoid but on way back in threw no wake just coasting and i was thinking it kinda sounded sputtering or cutting out some at 2500 rpms but sounded normal at idle and 3000+. it felt fine ridding it.
my daughter was there with him while i was ridding it and said he just looked at it, opened hood and started it. he never seemed like he had to or wanted to ride it, it was getting dusk out tho and he said its to late now
idk i think im just being paranoid but worries me trading good running ski for something might end up being problem. but guess that is risk with anything even buying another different used one. when if i dont get info that make me back out, we meet again im going to do a compression test, the two auto parts store buy me have bad loaner meters.
guy seemed real honest talking to him, idk im thinking the whole top end rebuild sticker thing to him saying it was sbt rebuild worries me. as well as it already being warm engine. im so uneasy idk if i should trade i know my 00 books for more then his 98 but at same time dont think i can sell it for same price i can find one for. ive been looking night and day. i went to talk to someone about selling my 98 i was asking 2800 bad vts module not motor, not that u need it but they tried talking me down to 21 then 2400 max saying it blue books at $1950
i do remember him saying he upped the carb jetting one on so the throttle is more responsive
whats your thoughts?
i was looking into maybe a step for my xp but still just dont know if i think its stable enough
