jkur10a
Active Member
Hey everyone!
Just thought I'd share some pictures and info of my new ski that I picked up over the weekend. It's a 1996 XP that I purchased from the original owner. The story on the ski is that the owner got hurt and stopped ridding. Well that was 10+ years ago and it has since sat in the garage under a cotton Sea-Doo dust cover (Not the normal canvas one - an indoor only cover) as well as under a tarp. When I went to checkout the ski, I just checked the basics, made sure it had good compression (170PSI both cylinders), and made sure there wasn't anything obviously wrong with the ski. I probably over paid, but it's super clean and I am happy with the purchase. It was a hell of a drive 500+ miles each way, but it was only a short drive out of the way on an already scheduled trip to visit some family, so it worked out great!
Here are a couple pictures from the ride home, keeping in mind the ski hasn't seen water (as in being washed) or even daylight in over a decade, so it could use a little clean-up, but it's by far the cleanest XP I've ever seen in person. A few of the decals have small scratches on them, but nothing that would make me consider pulling them off to replace them.
First thing you will probably notice is the trim (Or the mint yellow hump seat!). The original owner bought both a 1995 (720) and 1996 XP at the same time and swapped all the trim pieces over, including the floor mats on each ski. He ended up selling the 1995 shortly after changing over the trim (Back in 1996), as the 1996 was of course faster. Definitely an eye catching color combo!
It does have a few aftermarket parts, but also has all factory parts as well from what was replaced. I have all the paperwork on the ski, including the original bill of sale. All the A/M parts were installed by the dealership. It's got yellow Ultrac trim tabs, R&D Intake and some somewhat custom sponsons. The sponsons that were originally on the ski were the same shape as the ones in the picture, but yellow plastic (Can anyone identify what they might be?). One of them broke, so he had new ones made out of aluminum, which is what you see on the ski. I have the one yellow sponson that is still in one piece.
Lastly, the ski also has it's original "normal" seat as well, which is just as clean as the hump seat, sitting in the BRP box that the hump seat came in, in a plastic bag.
About the only major maintenance item I will note is that the ski does have the original grey tempo fuel lines. The good part though, is that the ski has not been used since Ethanol was added to the fuel, so in theory there should be absolutely no green goo. I'll be replacing the fuel lines and cleaning out the fuel take prior to trying to start the ski. I figure a carb rebuild is in my future, but who knows, it may run just fine as-is.
Something I learned during the transaction: The original Sea-Doo Synthetic two-stroke injection oil was blue, just like the oil these days that we can't use in these motors. I thought that was interesting and figured I'd share. I wasn't in the sport back in the 90's, so I had no idea it was ever blue. I have a half-full jug of Sea-Doo oil and it's definitely blue!
More to come as I have time to dig into the ski further!
Just thought I'd share some pictures and info of my new ski that I picked up over the weekend. It's a 1996 XP that I purchased from the original owner. The story on the ski is that the owner got hurt and stopped ridding. Well that was 10+ years ago and it has since sat in the garage under a cotton Sea-Doo dust cover (Not the normal canvas one - an indoor only cover) as well as under a tarp. When I went to checkout the ski, I just checked the basics, made sure it had good compression (170PSI both cylinders), and made sure there wasn't anything obviously wrong with the ski. I probably over paid, but it's super clean and I am happy with the purchase. It was a hell of a drive 500+ miles each way, but it was only a short drive out of the way on an already scheduled trip to visit some family, so it worked out great!
Here are a couple pictures from the ride home, keeping in mind the ski hasn't seen water (as in being washed) or even daylight in over a decade, so it could use a little clean-up, but it's by far the cleanest XP I've ever seen in person. A few of the decals have small scratches on them, but nothing that would make me consider pulling them off to replace them.
First thing you will probably notice is the trim (Or the mint yellow hump seat!). The original owner bought both a 1995 (720) and 1996 XP at the same time and swapped all the trim pieces over, including the floor mats on each ski. He ended up selling the 1995 shortly after changing over the trim (Back in 1996), as the 1996 was of course faster. Definitely an eye catching color combo!
It does have a few aftermarket parts, but also has all factory parts as well from what was replaced. I have all the paperwork on the ski, including the original bill of sale. All the A/M parts were installed by the dealership. It's got yellow Ultrac trim tabs, R&D Intake and some somewhat custom sponsons. The sponsons that were originally on the ski were the same shape as the ones in the picture, but yellow plastic (Can anyone identify what they might be?). One of them broke, so he had new ones made out of aluminum, which is what you see on the ski. I have the one yellow sponson that is still in one piece.
Lastly, the ski also has it's original "normal" seat as well, which is just as clean as the hump seat, sitting in the BRP box that the hump seat came in, in a plastic bag.
About the only major maintenance item I will note is that the ski does have the original grey tempo fuel lines. The good part though, is that the ski has not been used since Ethanol was added to the fuel, so in theory there should be absolutely no green goo. I'll be replacing the fuel lines and cleaning out the fuel take prior to trying to start the ski. I figure a carb rebuild is in my future, but who knows, it may run just fine as-is.
Something I learned during the transaction: The original Sea-Doo Synthetic two-stroke injection oil was blue, just like the oil these days that we can't use in these motors. I thought that was interesting and figured I'd share. I wasn't in the sport back in the 90's, so I had no idea it was ever blue. I have a half-full jug of Sea-Doo oil and it's definitely blue!
More to come as I have time to dig into the ski further!
