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01 Sea-Doo taking on water now won't start

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Gary pope

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I have a 01RXDI with a 951 motor in it. I had it in the water for approximately a day and a half straight, I went out to start it this morning and noticed that it would only Turn over maybe once and then shut off turn over maybe once and then shut off. I lifted the seat to notice a bunch of water in the bilge almost to the top of the battery. So am I correct to assume that the computer got wet in awls I have to do is just wait for it to dry out or what, any suggestions?
 
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Do you think you got water in the cylinders? The faster you deal with this the better
 
"computer" might not be in the bilge area. Your starting description sounds like a motor full of water but it could be a wet starter, start solenoid, low battery voltage. I would pull the spark plugs to inspect and find a way to get it to turn over.
 
OK here's an update I just went out to try to turn over now as it's doing is making a clicking noise from the electrical box almost sounds like the starter relay is bad I pull the spark plug in that notice any water in the cylinder is just by looking down there so that shouldn't be an issue when I get home I'll pull the battery put in and trickle charge and try it again and see if it'll turn over if not I guess I'll just replace the starter relay
 
Open the electrical box and drill a few holes in the bottom. This let's ad water that get sun there get out. If it was salt water, it will need flushed with fresh water. I'd remove and clean the wires and put it back together with dielectric grease.
 
It's fresh water but there wasn't any water in it when I took it off. I think I'm just gonna replace the relay and see what that does.
 
Update.... I took the plugs out and turned it over and water did spray out so that answers why it wouldn't turn over....... water preventing it due to being on top of the pistons..... so I kept turning it over with both plugs out for about a good 45 seconds or so.... after about 10 or 15 minutes of trying and trying to start her she finally did start so I hopped in the Tahoe and put her in the water to run some fuel through her. It took a good 10 minutes or so before I was able to actually go full throttle without it bogging down.... so.... this leads me to the question where did the water enter from???? I do know that the waves were pretty high them few days. So is it possible the water entered from the exhaust????
 
Also I can't figure out why my bilge pumps won't work so I'm thinking about installing an aftermarket rule pump, any thoughts?
 
I think most of the stock pumps were rule. Your problem may not be the pu.p though. Pull it out and see if there is any crud in the impeller. See if you can get it to spin. Check the fuse too. On my boat the auto switch was shot.
 
I did check all the fuses, although there wasn't one for just the bilge pump... I don't have a bilge pump switch anywhere on the ski...
 
Oh I thought you were talking about your boat. I don't know how the bilge pumps work on skis. There should be a water level sensor someplace. It's likely 2 probes near the back. Check the wiring. Some pumps have the auto part built in.
 
Well here's what I found out, upon looking at the two small builds pumps in the back of the Jetske, I noticed that there's plumbing for the discharge however there is no wiring going to the palms and I can't find any place for the wiring to go to. Do these things normally come from the factory with builds pumps installed and just not wired up or what?
 
They are siphon "pumps" so you have to be moving for them to suction out your bilge

if you don't have a hull leak it must have been the waves swamping it under the seat causing the intakes to be submerged . Or by flooding the exhaust . How was it moored?

If it were mine, I'd probably just run it and plan for, not be upset if/when the lower end fails. Others would pull the engine or components to take it apart to make sure the bearings aren't rusted or damaged.

Any 2 stroke likely to be swamped should have crank case drain plugs so mud, water and sand can be flushed out. (dirtbikes, PWC etc)
 
The water was deep enough that when you turned it over it entered the intake, entered the crankcase, then got sucked into the chamber area.

Siphon pumps work great, but you must be on plane for them to function.
 
You know what's weird about all of this is before this happened when you first turn the key on my display would say maintenance with the red light on it will go away within five seconds or so and it would run fine now that I swapped the motor so to speak and got all the water out and of course charged the battery that light isn't coming on anymore . It only sat for maybe two or three days before I got all the water out, as soon as I noticed the water in the bilge I pulled it off the lake until I get home
 
So this is what I am going to do to prevent this from happening again whenever I'm on vacation, I'm going to get one of them combination flow switch bilge pump put in there so when the water level reaches a certain height it'll automatically kick in I'll just wear that directly to the battery
 
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