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I let the magic smoke out of my X4 today

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Well it started off as a great day nice big swells getting big air until i started to bog down and back fire. i idled back to the boat ramp checked everything over. I cleaned the plugs and unplugged the stator plug on the front cover. It looked a bit wet so i blew it out and put it all back together. Ran great again, wife and i haul donkey back to the big water to have more fun. We both get a bunch of great jumps in i land hard a few times but on the last landing i came down hard enough for me to hit my chest on the bars. The engine shuts off and my wife blows past me, thinking i'm just taking a sit down from that last landing. Well i go to restart the ski and it just cranks and cranks no start. I unplug my lanyard and get the distinctive two beeps upon re installing it. Again crank but no strart:facepalm: So i flag her down and time my ski to hers. Once on the dock i lifted seat and smelt electrical burning. Quickly i took off the battery cables. Came home and looked at the stator plug and found it burnt. What could cause this? I will say i did install a new rectifier recently but it was from sea doo not aftermarket. Sigh just when we start having fun stuff has to go wrong.
 

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I'll just post something to bump this to the top on sunday Night.
I don't have a clue except were all your fuses the right ampage?
 
Its a grounding issue. All the ground for the front ebox comes from that connector, so when you have corroded pins it starts heating up.

Get the front mag housing off and check things out. If you dont have anything crazy in there I can provide you with the correct pins to replace whats there, and replacement connectors to replace all the melted stuff. On the ebox side I can supply the harness so all you have to do is take the old harness out of the ebox and swap it.

It might be a good idea to replace your big ground wire to the engine too. I am making some really nice new ones.
 
i had the same exact issue. replaced the connector and it has been fine after that. i think the connection just gets bad after a while.
 
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