I purchased 2 1996 Seadoo GSX's a few months back, one with a "jet issue" and the other with no motor but came with a replacement motor from SBT. After much blood sweat money and tears, here is the problems I am having.
Ski 1: Fired it up after new battery, tested it on the lake. Ran fine but maxed out RPM's and took a while to get up to speed. After reading on here, I replaced the wear ring which seemed to fix that issue, however how when I fire it up, it rides perfect for roughly 30 seconds then starts cutting out almost as if its missing and won't rev over 3k rpms and it smokes a lot. I took off the carb detail cleaned it replaced the fuel lines on the carb itself, blew compressed air through the fuel lines back to the tank (which ruined my gage
not so smart on that one), replaced the spark plugs and took it out and still does the exact same thing. I'm thinking it could be electrical because when it would start cutting out, if I turned the skii off and back on and gassed it it would take off and run again another 10-30 seconds correctly then start cutting out again. My next course of action was going to be replacing plug wires and all fuel lines but I'm skeptical and have to drive an hour and a half just to put it in the water to test.
Ski 2: Put in new engine, aligned driveshaft, replaced wear ring and took out on the lake roughly a month ago, ran like a champ although I noticed water did not come out of the small vent hole in the back under the seat but never got any overheat light on. Took this skii out again and it takes off fast but starts cutting out and won't rev over about 3500 rpm's and will occassionally kick power on and rev up then drops off again. This one doesn't have the extra smoking or mis-fire type sound that ski1 has but my only guess is fuel delivery? I'm stumped because this one worked great a month ago and now doesn't.
On both skiis I am using the bombardier oil that's made for it, have new plugs, running premium gas with ethanol treatment. I popped off the reservior under the hood and cleaned that small filter as well.
Any ideas or suggestions will be greatly appreciated, all the blood sweat and tears put into these things are for a mini-vacation this week which won't be happening now. Need some inspiration to not feel like I've wasted all the time and $$$.
Ski 1: Fired it up after new battery, tested it on the lake. Ran fine but maxed out RPM's and took a while to get up to speed. After reading on here, I replaced the wear ring which seemed to fix that issue, however how when I fire it up, it rides perfect for roughly 30 seconds then starts cutting out almost as if its missing and won't rev over 3k rpms and it smokes a lot. I took off the carb detail cleaned it replaced the fuel lines on the carb itself, blew compressed air through the fuel lines back to the tank (which ruined my gage
not so smart on that one), replaced the spark plugs and took it out and still does the exact same thing. I'm thinking it could be electrical because when it would start cutting out, if I turned the skii off and back on and gassed it it would take off and run again another 10-30 seconds correctly then start cutting out again. My next course of action was going to be replacing plug wires and all fuel lines but I'm skeptical and have to drive an hour and a half just to put it in the water to test.Ski 2: Put in new engine, aligned driveshaft, replaced wear ring and took out on the lake roughly a month ago, ran like a champ although I noticed water did not come out of the small vent hole in the back under the seat but never got any overheat light on. Took this skii out again and it takes off fast but starts cutting out and won't rev over about 3500 rpm's and will occassionally kick power on and rev up then drops off again. This one doesn't have the extra smoking or mis-fire type sound that ski1 has but my only guess is fuel delivery? I'm stumped because this one worked great a month ago and now doesn't.
On both skiis I am using the bombardier oil that's made for it, have new plugs, running premium gas with ethanol treatment. I popped off the reservior under the hood and cleaned that small filter as well.
Any ideas or suggestions will be greatly appreciated, all the blood sweat and tears put into these things are for a mini-vacation this week which won't be happening now. Need some inspiration to not feel like I've wasted all the time and $$$.
