Dailylimit
Member
Hey all,
Looking for a bit of advice here. I've been the owner of 2015 GTI SE 130 for about 4 years now. I have about 220 hours on it (trouble free up until now). I mainly use it for fishing. I decided to try a new lake this past weekend. Unfortunately I did not realize how bad the weeds were on this lake. Despite trying my best to avoid them, the ski ingested a rather large amount. I realized this after the alarm went off and a warning flashed on the dash indicating something to the effect of "high exhaust temperature." Opening the front storage compartment I saw exhaust fumes billowing out.
At this point I was out in the middle of nowhere, wind was starting to pick up, and had about 400 ft to get back to the landing. I limped back to the landing with the alarm at full blast just praying It would make it without too much damage. I unlatched the seat and slid it back in order to get the wind to help cool everything in the engine bay while limping back.
About 10 ft from the dock, something began to sound different. I looked down and saw that water began to enter the engine bay from where the "front formed exhaust hose" meets the resonator. I quickly killed the engine, roped it off to the dock and ran and got the truck and got it out of the water. By the time I got it out maybe had a couple of inches of water in the hull which I drained.
From reading forum posts it doesn't appear that I am the first person this has happened to. I like to do a lot of my own car repairs, maint etc so I'd like to try to fix this myself and save some money. My question is (not having a lot of boat repair experience) .. what other areas do I need to inspect on the GTI for any damage?
As of right now the only areas I can find that appear damaged is where this hose connects to the resonator. The plastic melted right off the resonator and fused to the inside of this hose creating a large opening for the water to come in. The engine appears fine and starts right up. I have since removed the intake grate and removed all the weeds that were wrapped around the drive shaft. Looks like there is a little bit wrapped around the prop still when looking at it from the back (with the IBR gate lifted) but 99% of it seems cleared.
Another question ... I was always under the impression this was a "closed loop cooling system" and did not believe any lake water came in to cool the system on the SeaDoos. I know now that this isn't the case ... lake water does come in to cool the exhaust system. So my question is .... (and maybe I'm not searching this correctly) but where does the water enter the system for cooling? Since water was coming in at the resonator I assume this is where?
Is there anywhere else I need to check for any clogged weeds in the system? After replacing these two items I just don't want to go out on the lake and have this happen again because I missed something. Any help or insight would be greatly appreciated!
As a sidenote .. in the future definitely will be bringing a collapsible oar.
Looking for a bit of advice here. I've been the owner of 2015 GTI SE 130 for about 4 years now. I have about 220 hours on it (trouble free up until now). I mainly use it for fishing. I decided to try a new lake this past weekend. Unfortunately I did not realize how bad the weeds were on this lake. Despite trying my best to avoid them, the ski ingested a rather large amount. I realized this after the alarm went off and a warning flashed on the dash indicating something to the effect of "high exhaust temperature." Opening the front storage compartment I saw exhaust fumes billowing out.
At this point I was out in the middle of nowhere, wind was starting to pick up, and had about 400 ft to get back to the landing. I limped back to the landing with the alarm at full blast just praying It would make it without too much damage. I unlatched the seat and slid it back in order to get the wind to help cool everything in the engine bay while limping back.
About 10 ft from the dock, something began to sound different. I looked down and saw that water began to enter the engine bay from where the "front formed exhaust hose" meets the resonator. I quickly killed the engine, roped it off to the dock and ran and got the truck and got it out of the water. By the time I got it out maybe had a couple of inches of water in the hull which I drained.
From reading forum posts it doesn't appear that I am the first person this has happened to. I like to do a lot of my own car repairs, maint etc so I'd like to try to fix this myself and save some money. My question is (not having a lot of boat repair experience) .. what other areas do I need to inspect on the GTI for any damage?
As of right now the only areas I can find that appear damaged is where this hose connects to the resonator. The plastic melted right off the resonator and fused to the inside of this hose creating a large opening for the water to come in. The engine appears fine and starts right up. I have since removed the intake grate and removed all the weeds that were wrapped around the drive shaft. Looks like there is a little bit wrapped around the prop still when looking at it from the back (with the IBR gate lifted) but 99% of it seems cleared.
Another question ... I was always under the impression this was a "closed loop cooling system" and did not believe any lake water came in to cool the system on the SeaDoos. I know now that this isn't the case ... lake water does come in to cool the exhaust system. So my question is .... (and maybe I'm not searching this correctly) but where does the water enter the system for cooling? Since water was coming in at the resonator I assume this is where?
Is there anywhere else I need to check for any clogged weeds in the system? After replacing these two items I just don't want to go out on the lake and have this happen again because I missed something. Any help or insight would be greatly appreciated!
As a sidenote .. in the future definitely will be bringing a collapsible oar.
