hlewis12
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I'm sorry for posting this because I feel certain that it is in here somewhere but I'm not sure what exactly to search for. I just recently got a 2002 XP. It was given to me by my wife's boss. He had a couple of seadoo's and this one he said was too fast to ride where he normally rides so it mainly just sat. He took it to his buddies shop that repairs boats and had a new battery, carbs cleaned, and a motor mount replaced. He lived in Wilmington NC rode it in the ocean and apparently the motor mount was rusty and broke. So like I said it had sat for a while.
We paid the repair bill something right around $500. I brought it back to TN in October. Put it in the water when we got it home and ran it for a few minutes. It was getting late. IIRC is seemed to run well except it was smoking a little in the engine compartment. I mistakenly decided to leave it in the water overnight tied up to the dock. I came home for lunch the next day to discover it had sank. I pulled it out of the water came back to work and frantically searched what to do if a ski gets flooded. Went home cleaned all of the water out. Oiled everything really well. Put it back in the water and ran it for a bit. Ran like absolute crap it smoked like crazy but I assumed it was because of the amount of oil/sea foam I sprayed into the cylinders. It was late October the water went down and I just put it in the garage for the winter.
Got it back out this past weekend. Drained the gas. Charged the battery. Put in new plugs. Cut 1/4" off plug wires. Put it in the water and it fired right up. Smoked like crazy in the engine compartment. Starting taking on water again. Finally found that the 90 hose from the resonator to exhaust outlet was loose and taking on water and filling engine compartment with smoke.
It starts up and seems to idle just fine. When I take off it seems to hesitate a little and then slowly builds up to about 4500 RPM's and ~30-35 mph and then it just stays there. I'm not sure what exactly to check. I know that I need to remove the fuel selector and clean it. Tried it on both ON and Reserve. No difference noticed. It is on my list of things to do next. Cleaned out the fuel filter. All of the hoses were replaced with I assume automotive hoses before I got it. I verified that the low speed screw is at 1.5 turns out. For the life of me I can't find the high speed screw to make sure it is all the way in. I screwed in the rave valves all the way in and back out 1.5 turns. Did the same thing for the water regulator valve? on the exhaust. I did not drain and change the oil because it looks completely fine and the way had it tied up when it sank the nose of the ski was still out of the water.
One other thing to note is when I checked the spark plugs it almost seemed as if one was rich and the other one looked a little wet but it wasn't black at all. Can you check spark on these the same as everything else? Remove plug hold against engine for ground and look for spark?
It's crossed my mind that it almost rides like what I would imagine a learning key would do but according to something I read somewhere I don't think a learning key works on my ski. Maybe I saw that in the shop manual.
What should my next steps be? Thanks in advance for all of the knowledge on this forum.
We paid the repair bill something right around $500. I brought it back to TN in October. Put it in the water when we got it home and ran it for a few minutes. It was getting late. IIRC is seemed to run well except it was smoking a little in the engine compartment. I mistakenly decided to leave it in the water overnight tied up to the dock. I came home for lunch the next day to discover it had sank. I pulled it out of the water came back to work and frantically searched what to do if a ski gets flooded. Went home cleaned all of the water out. Oiled everything really well. Put it back in the water and ran it for a bit. Ran like absolute crap it smoked like crazy but I assumed it was because of the amount of oil/sea foam I sprayed into the cylinders. It was late October the water went down and I just put it in the garage for the winter.
Got it back out this past weekend. Drained the gas. Charged the battery. Put in new plugs. Cut 1/4" off plug wires. Put it in the water and it fired right up. Smoked like crazy in the engine compartment. Starting taking on water again. Finally found that the 90 hose from the resonator to exhaust outlet was loose and taking on water and filling engine compartment with smoke.
It starts up and seems to idle just fine. When I take off it seems to hesitate a little and then slowly builds up to about 4500 RPM's and ~30-35 mph and then it just stays there. I'm not sure what exactly to check. I know that I need to remove the fuel selector and clean it. Tried it on both ON and Reserve. No difference noticed. It is on my list of things to do next. Cleaned out the fuel filter. All of the hoses were replaced with I assume automotive hoses before I got it. I verified that the low speed screw is at 1.5 turns out. For the life of me I can't find the high speed screw to make sure it is all the way in. I screwed in the rave valves all the way in and back out 1.5 turns. Did the same thing for the water regulator valve? on the exhaust. I did not drain and change the oil because it looks completely fine and the way had it tied up when it sank the nose of the ski was still out of the water.
One other thing to note is when I checked the spark plugs it almost seemed as if one was rich and the other one looked a little wet but it wasn't black at all. Can you check spark on these the same as everything else? Remove plug hold against engine for ground and look for spark?
It's crossed my mind that it almost rides like what I would imagine a learning key would do but according to something I read somewhere I don't think a learning key works on my ski. Maybe I saw that in the shop manual.
What should my next steps be? Thanks in advance for all of the knowledge on this forum.
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