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I may do that. Thanks Stevie.

I have 2 (new to me this season) '97 Seadoo GSX pwc. They will be parked inside a unheated metal building in and moderate climate (Southern NM) over the winter. While it does freeze a time or two over the winter rarely below 30 or hight 20s. With my other skis (3 superjets and a 2 stroke...

Understood and thanks very much for the input. My best approach is to get it on the lake an mess with it. I likely won't run them with a hose connected but nice to know I can if I ever need to. I appreciate the input and will probably be back once I get them on the lake (and inevitably have...

Thanks mikid. I backed the adjusters out to flush (from all the way in) and ran it briefly. Not in the water and no load so hard to tell but it did seem to run much cleaner on top. On the water front, I don't want to run them much or for long but a little and would like water running...

Thanks for the reply Grim. I do plan to do just that the next time I go to the lake. Do you know if there is a way to connect a hose so I can run them safely at home some?

I will add that the red adjustment caps on the 2 RAVEs are screwed all the way in. In my reading on this model and yaar the factory (and suggested) setting seems to be the opposite of that - all the way out to flush with the top. As stiff as the spring on the top side of the bellows is and the...

I did a post on the RAVE valves a couple of weeks ago. Cleaned them but still don't seem to open readily (they need the throttle released and quickly opened all the way to actuate). I believe there are kits to "rebuild them" (bellows and o-rings I think). That looks pretty simple. Should I...

On the no start thing I figured it out. Had the keys crossed up. Didn't realize they were specific to each ski.

Also, I looked closer at the fuel lines and the ball valve on the oil line. The fuel line is grey and looks factory (I gather that is not good?). The ball valve is a decent install and is on just the line to the rotary valve. I talked with my friend and he said that it would leak oil into...

I am at the lake now and was going to fire these things up and hopefully have time to drop them in before I leave (I.m just getting things ready for a family trip next week). This has got to be the stupidest question ever, I can't figure out how to start them. Put the "key" on, get one beep...

At the moment, I am really shooting in the dark. I'll take a better look at it when I have time and see what exactly they did and if I figure out why and hopefully return with knowledge. Thanks for all the info!

That's interesting. I'll have to look at it more closely and ask him some specific questions as to why it was installed - leaking oil into the hull or the crank filling with oil. From the parts drawings I see online it looks like there are two oil lines from a fitting at the bottom of the tank...

That is good to know, I will definitely check them next chance I get and will run a FullSyn API-TC oil via the injector. An odd thing that I was going to address in another post but might throw it out here. On one of the skis, the mechanic my friend used installed a brass ball valve in the...

I did get them down to our lake house but didn't have time to drop them in the water - hope to do that the next trip. What might the fuel line color indicate? I don't recall the fuel line color but will check that next time down. I think pretty much all two stroke engine oil is API-TC (...

Will do. When they work well and are reliable oil injectors are nice from the "keep it simple stupid" perspective and with lake beginners using them throwing in as few variables as possible is wise. Thanks again and I will update how they run once I get them on the water.

Thanks for the reply and information. I pulled them apart, cleaned and reinstalled them this afternoon. There was some carbon build on the guillotine but not excessive. There was more of an accumulation of thick oil gunk, as if there is too much oil mixing with the gas. I know some brands of...

I recently purchased 2 '97 GSX (standard) PWC from a friend. Fairly lightly used and well cared for. He was not mechanically inclined and had a local "lake mechanic" maintain them. When you first ride them after not having being ran for a period of time they seem fine down low but won't clean...