Hose Clamp off?

[sgoyal]

My friend and I went to test 2006 Seadoo 180CS and the owner was keeping the boat around 30mph. My friend and I asked him to throttle it to full and he was hesitating. We asked him few times and finally He did it. After few seconds, He stopped the boat and asked us to test it.

but my friend turned the boat off and said, Let's pop the hood lol.. and all of sudden, we see Water is getting into the Engine compartment. It was almost half full and the owner took off his clothes in hurry and came up in few minutes.. Oh f**** chit.. hose clam fall off...

He was tightening something in the compartment and didn't tell us what.. but water cleared up.

My friend said let me start and let's see what it does...We were halfway to our dock and it filled up again, He tighten something again and water cleared up...

END of the day, We just walked home without a boat and the owner didn't even ask once if we are still interested. I felt like he already knew about the issue.. but who knows...

Anyway, Has anyone come across any kinda issue like this? It'd be good to know for future reference.

 

[Seadoobuddy]

Nothing is worse than having a naked boat owner tightening a hose clam......


Exhaust leak????? baler hose not connected??, but that wouldn't let that much water in.

??????

 

[Moejay]

I went for a test drive on a brand new never in the water 2012 Sea Doo Speedster SC wearing a goPro HD on my head. After about 30 minutes of riding, the boat quit. We lifted the engine cover to find a hose clamp had come off the super charger. Kind of sucked for the salesman, but I think he's seen the problem before, he went right to it! We put the hose on and idled back to the ramp. I did still purchase another boat from them.
I still watch the video pretty funny!

 

[pvamax]

Sounds like he was playing with the exhaust resonator. Common mod is to delete it with a single piece of 3" piping. Then when people don't tighten down those hose clamps enough on each side of the pipe, off comes the tubing and you have a 3" hole for water to come into your engine compartment! Even if he didnt do this, id bet he was messing with those hose clamps on the exhaust back there and that was the cause.

 

[sgoyal]

Thank so much for the information.