okay here is the deal. a few years ago my cousin was letting someone ride is his 96 gtx sea doo, and the person didnt have the linyard attached and flipped the machine over and was thrown far off it. and it went upside down and ran. after that he said it ever ran again except for started once and died out. this was out on the ocean. so he got it home and was not able to clean it out properly. "this was a few years ago, it sat with salt water in the machine" So i asked my cousin what was going on with it and he just said that he could never get it to fire up. so he let me take it and have a try to find out/tune it up. So last night i got into the motor. here is whats i found. oil resadue on the 1st cylinder so i pulled the coolhead/topend and found lots of salt damage and it looks like one of the gaskets blew out and salt water got into the motor and down into the crankcase and dried up. also the number 1 piston seems to have small amounts of rust that is holding it stuck. the number 2 will vary slightly move side to side. !not up and Down! within tolerance. i cant get the number one free yet. so here is my question
1. should the pistons move freely or does the machine need to be in a nutural possion or osmething like that.
2. what are the things that sit on the top of the cylinders that are spring loaded and what do they do. because the number one cylinder looked like it had alot of oil that spewed out of that.
3. Is it a better idea to just get a new motor or rebuild this one.
please help me out. this isnt my machine it belongs to my cousin. i know about working on atvs but am learning about seadoos
seems like the motore 2 stroke is pretty much the same.
thank you
1. should the pistons move freely or does the machine need to be in a nutural possion or osmething like that.
2. what are the things that sit on the top of the cylinders that are spring loaded and what do they do. because the number one cylinder looked like it had alot of oil that spewed out of that.
3. Is it a better idea to just get a new motor or rebuild this one.
please help me out. this isnt my machine it belongs to my cousin. i know about working on atvs but am learning about seadoos
seems like the motore 2 stroke is pretty much the same.
thank you