Update: I didn’t know excactly what all I was suposto soak in the 50/50 mix so I soaked the pump with sliding seal attached. I left it soaking overnight but didn’t remember till Next day while at work. removed it from soak that afternoon. Sliding seal rubber didn’t hold up to well and so had to improvise with marine grade fuel line tapered down so it would fit inside the aluminum part. Got pump back together with new fuel strainers installed just need to rivet bottom and install external inline fuel filter (might hold out on the fuel filter because ski does have brand new high pressure fuel lines.) Got all the gas out of the fuel tank, but it’s hard to see inside, not sure if there is any foreign material left cause it’s hard to see, (suggestions?)
Previous owner sent me a copy of the receipts for the fuel pump kit from high flow, purchased back in 2012 (didn’t ask how many hours the ski had on it when the pump was first rebuilt but it was rebuilt back in 2012 and as of today [2019] the ski has a little over 150 hours on it.)
When I talked to highflow they confirmed they would honor warranty if/when pump does fail. (Going to try it now that it’s clean then proceed from there.)
Still haven’t found any shops nearby that are willing to test fuel pressure so guess once everything is all back inside I’ll insert key and see if I get the two audible “ok” beeps then see if it starts. If it passes that I’ll look into finding a place further away that will test fuel pressure. (Wouldn’t mind building my own tester, clueless if it needs to be a certain type of gauge, can I use one intended for air pressure cause not a lot of fuel ones I’ve seen go up to 107 psi.) any suggestions?
For the love of god I just want to be out on the lake already lol. But I do worry since it’s an older model with its issues if I made a bad purchase with me being a female that will be out riding mostly solo, what if I get stranded out there. Then I wonder if I should have just bit the bullet and bought a new ski maybe I’d be a little safer idk