Spimothy Leary
Well-Known Member
i put myself in a bit of a pickle with my RTX, yesterday the carbon seal install uncovered additional issues that need addressed asap: motor mounts, driveshaft, PTO bearing, some seals. Expediting out parts as we speak, should be put back together by Tuesday just in time for a quick test and the green light.
I'm :driving: no matter what, but there is a 5% chance I won't be towing a ski behind me
But 95% isn't bad.. I like those odds !
My own dam fault for not getting this started last week instead of yesterday. (my only weak defense is that i've only owned it 3 weeks and when I ordered the carbon seal I forgot the boot so that delayed things 3 days, which is now coming back to bite me)
Turns out the PO of the ski that was meticulous about washing the outside had kind of ignored the inside for the past couple of seasons, not his fault he's not mechanical, it was just overdue for a once-over. If he had been given the same info when he owned it, he wouldn't have hesitated to fix everything.
In hindsight he got lucky, any one of those issues could have sunk the ski pretty quick and I was a dam fool for taking it out on a couple rides without exercising due diligence on a ski that has at least 100 hours of ocean time. wtf Tim ?
Apparently I haven't learned a dam thing after a few thousand posts, < big dummy.
The good news is that nobody sank and I'll finally own a pair of Rhaas mounts :drool5:
the bad news is that 4 stroke parts can be real ball busters, paypal and the CC took a bit of a hit yesterday, If I owned a dam 720 i could almost have gotten a full engine !
I'm :driving: no matter what, but there is a 5% chance I won't be towing a ski behind me
But 95% isn't bad.. I like those odds !
My own dam fault for not getting this started last week instead of yesterday. (my only weak defense is that i've only owned it 3 weeks and when I ordered the carbon seal I forgot the boot so that delayed things 3 days, which is now coming back to bite me)
Turns out the PO of the ski that was meticulous about washing the outside had kind of ignored the inside for the past couple of seasons, not his fault he's not mechanical, it was just overdue for a once-over. If he had been given the same info when he owned it, he wouldn't have hesitated to fix everything.
In hindsight he got lucky, any one of those issues could have sunk the ski pretty quick and I was a dam fool for taking it out on a couple rides without exercising due diligence on a ski that has at least 100 hours of ocean time. wtf Tim ?
Apparently I haven't learned a dam thing after a few thousand posts, < big dummy.
The good news is that nobody sank and I'll finally own a pair of Rhaas mounts :drool5:
the bad news is that 4 stroke parts can be real ball busters, paypal and the CC took a bit of a hit yesterday, If I owned a dam 720 i could almost have gotten a full engine !
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