'93 XP No fuel after forgetting drain plug

[magnetnerd]

Hey guys, I don't know what's going on here. Last night I started up my ski in the driveway and it ran fine. Brought it out to the lake and I was in the process of launching it when I realized I forgot to put the drain plug in. I started it up to get it back on the trailer and it ran for a few seconds, then died.

I finally got it back on the trailer (I had to pull it on) and tried to start it again...but got nothing.

I tried several times, pulled the plugs, dried them off a few times (they were wet each time).

Since I didn't have any plugs with me I bought some on the way home and tried them out in my driveway. Nothing. I figured that maybe something needed to dry, so I let it sit overnight.

Well, I just tried to crank it and the new plugs (which were in there last night and today) are COMPLETELY dry.

Any ideas on where to start???

Thanks in advance.

 

[seadoosnipe]

Water ingestion?....

If your motor ingested water, .......you need to get it started and lubed back up right away.

The things you need to check. You said this morning, the plugs were dry when you tried to start it. Could be, your not getting fuel.

Did you check for spark? Take a plug out and leave it connected to the plug wire. Lay it on top of the head. Now, turn the motor over. Do you see the spark plug spark. If not, then check the gap.

If you saw spark, take a bit of your gas from your 2 cycle weed eater and pour a small coke cap full into each cylinder. Now put the plugs in and try it. If you heard it hit and run for a second or two, your not getting fuel to the carbs............pull the choke and continue to start it. This may be all you need to do.

Do not run the starter for any longer than 30 seconds. This may cause the starter to overheat...........:cheers:

 

[magnetnerd]

Yes, there is spark.

I just verified that fuel isn't getting to the carbs.

I'll go out now and try the gas in the cylinder. Hopefully it'll work.

 

[magnetnerd]

So, it worked in the driveway.

I went to test it in the lake and it started fine but was acting kind of funny. Any amount of throttle would cause it to bog except WOT. Then after a few minutes even that caused it to bog. It was not fun getting it back to the ramp because it kept dying, whether it was at idle or mid throttle or WFO.

The plugs looked very dry so I'm thinking it's an issue of getting enough fuel in.

As an aside, when I started the ski out of the water it seemed to idle a little low, and when I would rev it sometimes the RPM's would stick high.

If I said anything incredibly stupid in this post it's because I'm slightly inebriated.

No big.

 

[magnetnerd]

So...does anyone have any ideas?

 

[popasodatastie]

Fuel valve

is you fuel valve to the on position maybe you sucked the crabs dry of fuel and the valve is off. That happened to me maybe it will help.

 

[magnetnerd]

is you fuel valve to the on position maybe you sucked the crabs dry of fuel and the valve is off. That happened to me maybe it will help.

Yeah, ithe fuel valve was on. I took it off and cleaned it out, and also cleaned out the fuel filter. The filter was dirty, so that might have caused it. I tried to start it up after that and was getting NOTHING, so I'm thinking I knocked a wire (either to the starter button or lanyard) loose.

This is getting to be frustrating. I'm out of town this weekend so unfortunately I won't be able to work on it until Monday at the earliest.

 

[timmyboy76]

you check the elcrical boxes, make sure no water in there, connections...

 

[Chester]

Take your carbs apart and clean them.

Chester

 

[magnetnerd]

you check the elcrical boxes, make sure no water in there, connections...

Not yet...

 

[magnetnerd]

Take your carbs apart and clean them.

Chester

I sort of figured someone was going to chime in with this. I've been thinking I probably should do this...but I wanted to rule out anything else first, seeing as how the ski was fine one weekend and not the next.

When I clean them, is there anything that I need to replace as standard procedure?

 

[popasodatastie]

Fuel Lines????

you'll want to replace any o rings that might have gone bad and check the jets for varnish. another thing you might want to look into is posably replacing the fuel lines. I'm changing mine out tomorrow becuase i have gunky grey ones that just look bad. try slipping off the fuel line at the carb and try blowing back through them and see if you get any bubbles in the fuel tank i would try that and just see if it might just be your fuel lines. Then you wont have to tare apart the carbs becuase that is a headache!

 

[PWCdoc]

It's a 16 year old boat. I agree with Chester except I'd go one step further and rebuild your carbs. You can try all the blowing you want to but it's not going to improve the fuel pumps ability to pull fuel up to the carb. Once those diaphragms start drying out the only thing you can do is take them apart and "rebuild" them...not just clean them out.