Shaynedwyer
Member
Hello All,
I'm brand new to the forum and brand new to pwc's so please bear with me.
I purchased a 95 XP last month from a woman who said everything was good with it. I bought it after testing it in the driveway of her house off a winterization. Always freshwater at a local lake near me. She had drained the fuel from it. Charged up the battery, gave it some gas, and it started right up. I had a buddy along with me who is a car and small engine guy who said it sounded good. We gave it some throttle and everything looked good. I used it two times about a week later and everything with it was absolutely great. Ran mid-grade gas through it no problems at all. On the second time taking it out, I had a buddy on it while taking it off the trailer and I pulled away. He started it up and by the time I got back down to the dock, he said it was dead. It was because the fuel selector switch had not been switched from off to gas so it starved and shut down. Don't think this plays an issue in this, but want to include all facts. Once we switched it back to gas, everything worked great.
It then sat for two weeks before I could get it out again. Midway through the ride, when I was out in the main channel, deep water, at full throttle, the engine studdered and lost power from 7000 rpm down to about 4000 rpm. Then, when holding throttle wide open, the RPMs were bouncing off of 7000 back down to 5000, then back up to 7000 and back down to 5000 almost like it is rev limited. At the same time of my initial power loss, I believe I saw something out of my peripheral vision shoot out to the back right of me, but I don't really know for sure. It could've just been my mind playing tricks on me. I thought I ran over something, but I did not see anything that I could've run over, again I was in deep water in the main channel, there isn't a whole lot just floating out there in that area.
I took the ski in and let it sit. Did a visual inspection on the prop and jet area and didn't see anything out of ordinary. Sat another week on trailer. Friend who originally helped me recommended mechanic in a bottle - I couldn't find it on the shelves so picked up some sea foam instead. Only used a small amount of sea foam, 2 oz, for the one gallon of gas and mixed that up before dumping it in to a tank that probably had about a quarter tank left. I took it out again with the most recent seafoam mixed gas I was probably at about under a quarter of tank by the time I was done so I don't even know if the seafoam made it into the system or is still in the tank. For about the first 30 mins it ran great, held full open throttle everything was good. Then it started acting up, and now at this point it is this. When I hold full throttle it bogs down pretty badly and there is a smell of fuel, it gets up to about 4000 rpm to 5000 rpm. When I hold half throttle I can get up to about 4000 RPM with no bogging, but no further. When I go wide open from there it goes up and then loses power and drops back down to 4000. I tried running on reserve switch and that made no difference.
It idles on the trailer at about 3500 RPM, in water at 1500 RPM. I've read that trailer idle is high, in water idle is good. I have read up on the fuel problem thread that's stickied and the ski does have the grey fuel lines. At this point I'm leaning toward some sort of fuel issue - I know I need to replace all the grey lines in there, and the carb probably needs to be cleaned out and re-built. Does that sound like I'm on the right track?
I'm brand new to the forum and brand new to pwc's so please bear with me.
I purchased a 95 XP last month from a woman who said everything was good with it. I bought it after testing it in the driveway of her house off a winterization. Always freshwater at a local lake near me. She had drained the fuel from it. Charged up the battery, gave it some gas, and it started right up. I had a buddy along with me who is a car and small engine guy who said it sounded good. We gave it some throttle and everything looked good. I used it two times about a week later and everything with it was absolutely great. Ran mid-grade gas through it no problems at all. On the second time taking it out, I had a buddy on it while taking it off the trailer and I pulled away. He started it up and by the time I got back down to the dock, he said it was dead. It was because the fuel selector switch had not been switched from off to gas so it starved and shut down. Don't think this plays an issue in this, but want to include all facts. Once we switched it back to gas, everything worked great.
It then sat for two weeks before I could get it out again. Midway through the ride, when I was out in the main channel, deep water, at full throttle, the engine studdered and lost power from 7000 rpm down to about 4000 rpm. Then, when holding throttle wide open, the RPMs were bouncing off of 7000 back down to 5000, then back up to 7000 and back down to 5000 almost like it is rev limited. At the same time of my initial power loss, I believe I saw something out of my peripheral vision shoot out to the back right of me, but I don't really know for sure. It could've just been my mind playing tricks on me. I thought I ran over something, but I did not see anything that I could've run over, again I was in deep water in the main channel, there isn't a whole lot just floating out there in that area.
I took the ski in and let it sit. Did a visual inspection on the prop and jet area and didn't see anything out of ordinary. Sat another week on trailer. Friend who originally helped me recommended mechanic in a bottle - I couldn't find it on the shelves so picked up some sea foam instead. Only used a small amount of sea foam, 2 oz, for the one gallon of gas and mixed that up before dumping it in to a tank that probably had about a quarter tank left. I took it out again with the most recent seafoam mixed gas I was probably at about under a quarter of tank by the time I was done so I don't even know if the seafoam made it into the system or is still in the tank. For about the first 30 mins it ran great, held full open throttle everything was good. Then it started acting up, and now at this point it is this. When I hold full throttle it bogs down pretty badly and there is a smell of fuel, it gets up to about 4000 rpm to 5000 rpm. When I hold half throttle I can get up to about 4000 RPM with no bogging, but no further. When I go wide open from there it goes up and then loses power and drops back down to 4000. I tried running on reserve switch and that made no difference.
It idles on the trailer at about 3500 RPM, in water at 1500 RPM. I've read that trailer idle is high, in water idle is good. I have read up on the fuel problem thread that's stickied and the ski does have the grey fuel lines. At this point I'm leaning toward some sort of fuel issue - I know I need to replace all the grey lines in there, and the carb probably needs to be cleaned out and re-built. Does that sound like I'm on the right track?
