After seeing an increasing amount of threads regarding members dropping screws down carburetors resulting in scared engine cases, damaged rotary valves, and rotary valve gears, and worse. Most of this can be avoided by just being a little more careful and more organized in the way we do things.
First of all I'm by no means a professional mechanic however I did stay at a Holiday Inn Express last night. I'm just a shade tree mechanic like most guys on this forum. I have worked for an automobile dealership for a number of years, I'm the IT Director. I have however picked up some things by observing the best Technicians.
1. These guys don't work in a mess, keep your work area clean and orderly. Also the don't work on dirty engines or engine bays, keep the inside of your SeaDoo clean. If you do drop something it will be much easier to find and retrieve.
2. Keep your tools organized and where they belong, personally I won't use more than 2 or 3 tools without putting them away, I use a roll around cart which makes it much easier.
3. Protect your work, for instance if you remove the air box and spark arrestor protect the carbs. stuff a shop towel or a rag into the carbs., these are like open mouths just waiting to swallow something.
4. Keep screws, bolts and parts separated and organized, I use food containers and plastic bags. If at the end of the project if you have parts left over they go somewhere. Also if you have a place a part should go find the part. For instance if you have re-installed the air box and find you have 6 places for screws but only 5 screws the screw is somewhere and it might have gone into one of the carbs. It's well worth the time to remove the carbs. to find that missing screw, before it gets into the engine.
5. Take pictures of your project, especially dis-assembly, this will make re-assembly easier and maybe help the next guy who is doing the same project.
6. Most important take your time and follow the procedures in the manual.
Please help us complete this thread, if it turns out well I'm thinking we could move it to the how-to section.
Lou
First of all I'm by no means a professional mechanic however I did stay at a Holiday Inn Express last night. I'm just a shade tree mechanic like most guys on this forum. I have worked for an automobile dealership for a number of years, I'm the IT Director. I have however picked up some things by observing the best Technicians.
1. These guys don't work in a mess, keep your work area clean and orderly. Also the don't work on dirty engines or engine bays, keep the inside of your SeaDoo clean. If you do drop something it will be much easier to find and retrieve.
2. Keep your tools organized and where they belong, personally I won't use more than 2 or 3 tools without putting them away, I use a roll around cart which makes it much easier.
3. Protect your work, for instance if you remove the air box and spark arrestor protect the carbs. stuff a shop towel or a rag into the carbs., these are like open mouths just waiting to swallow something.
4. Keep screws, bolts and parts separated and organized, I use food containers and plastic bags. If at the end of the project if you have parts left over they go somewhere. Also if you have a place a part should go find the part. For instance if you have re-installed the air box and find you have 6 places for screws but only 5 screws the screw is somewhere and it might have gone into one of the carbs. It's well worth the time to remove the carbs. to find that missing screw, before it gets into the engine.
5. Take pictures of your project, especially dis-assembly, this will make re-assembly easier and maybe help the next guy who is doing the same project.
6. Most important take your time and follow the procedures in the manual.
Please help us complete this thread, if it turns out well I'm thinking we could move it to the how-to section.
Lou
