I am a relatively new SeaDoo RX owner, and have never had a ski quite like this one. Just bought the ski and took it for it's first ride yesterday.
Everything ran great on freshly rebuilt engine, however, about 1-1/2 to 2 gallons of water came out of the drain plugs when I pulled them after riding!
All of this water looked to be in the channel beneath the engine compartment when I opened the seat, so I don't think any water was ingested into the engine... & it ran great.
I reached out t every PWC mechanic I could find in the area, and all are too busy to take a look to diagnose or repair with/for me since the lakes are back up around here. :facepalm:
I plan to take the ski to the lake, leave strapped on the trailer, and leak test with engine off and then while running to see what I can find it this weekend.
I have never owned a ski where I could not physically reach all of the water connections without removing parts of the engine/intake/electrical. When looking towards the back of the ski, there is a black box (assuming an air box) up top, and then an electrical box connected right beneath it, and then another box with an acronym on it.
Question1: Can anyone tell me how to reach the rear of the inside hull of the ski to leak test without damaging any of these parts? I attempted to start removing some of this stuff in my garage, but wound up removing the front cover of the electrical box with a rubber gasket inside & it wouldn't fit where it looked like it belonged.
Please let me know if anyone has a video of "how to", manual, or can explain very well how to remove this stuff or if it is even necessary.
Question 2: the rubber gasket from the electrical box did not fit inside the grooved channel of the front cover that came off, so I installed the rubber gasket/seal first, and then put the cover on the main box with wires and main connectors inside. Is this the proper way to install the rubber seal? It would not physically fit inside the channel of the cover (it was too long and would not fit flush). Do I need to remove, cut the seal to fit inside the electrical box, and then reinstall? I don't want to get water in there.
I appreciate any advice that can be shared with me - it would be great to isolate this issue down and be able to repair relatively simply.
Also - if you happen to live in the Austin, TX area and like to work on PWCs; please reach out to me as it would be great to have some friends who are a little more tech-savvy working on PWCs than I am at this point.
Cheers and Thank You, :cheers:
-Rich
Everything ran great on freshly rebuilt engine, however, about 1-1/2 to 2 gallons of water came out of the drain plugs when I pulled them after riding!
All of this water looked to be in the channel beneath the engine compartment when I opened the seat, so I don't think any water was ingested into the engine... & it ran great.
I reached out t every PWC mechanic I could find in the area, and all are too busy to take a look to diagnose or repair with/for me since the lakes are back up around here. :facepalm:
I plan to take the ski to the lake, leave strapped on the trailer, and leak test with engine off and then while running to see what I can find it this weekend.
I have never owned a ski where I could not physically reach all of the water connections without removing parts of the engine/intake/electrical. When looking towards the back of the ski, there is a black box (assuming an air box) up top, and then an electrical box connected right beneath it, and then another box with an acronym on it.
Question1: Can anyone tell me how to reach the rear of the inside hull of the ski to leak test without damaging any of these parts? I attempted to start removing some of this stuff in my garage, but wound up removing the front cover of the electrical box with a rubber gasket inside & it wouldn't fit where it looked like it belonged.
Please let me know if anyone has a video of "how to", manual, or can explain very well how to remove this stuff or if it is even necessary.
Question 2: the rubber gasket from the electrical box did not fit inside the grooved channel of the front cover that came off, so I installed the rubber gasket/seal first, and then put the cover on the main box with wires and main connectors inside. Is this the proper way to install the rubber seal? It would not physically fit inside the channel of the cover (it was too long and would not fit flush). Do I need to remove, cut the seal to fit inside the electrical box, and then reinstall? I don't want to get water in there.
I appreciate any advice that can be shared with me - it would be great to isolate this issue down and be able to repair relatively simply.
Also - if you happen to live in the Austin, TX area and like to work on PWCs; please reach out to me as it would be great to have some friends who are a little more tech-savvy working on PWCs than I am at this point.
Cheers and Thank You, :cheers:
-Rich
