Last time out with my boat did not go well. Leaving the dock it wouldn't come up on plane, but I was overloaded as I was shuttling people and gear over to the beach. I had probably 800 pounds in it. This was after I replaced my carbon ring, bellows and stainless cup. Got to the beach and shut it off, came back and it wouldn't start or if it would start it wouldn't rev up and it would backfire and then stall. I gave up and took my HX for a ride, I came back and my friend had got it started. He took apart the water regulator and water poured out, so he drained it and put it back together then it decided to start. I had this apart once before, the metal tie wrap on the bellows had rusted and punctured the bellows, so I patched the hole and put a zip tie on as this was the night before I was to take the boat out, I couldn't get a replacement right away. It performed fine that day though. Anyway it still wasn't performing right this time out, holeshot was terrible took forever to get going and wouldn't rev properly. Once up to plane it still hit top speed though. I had somebody else drive and water was pouring out the hole in the bottom of the regulator. So how much can the water regulator really affect the boats performance? Because I don't know if it's that or I did something wrong changing the carbon ring and such. I have ordered a new bellows, but I don't know if that's all I need, so here are some pictures of it. Also when I started in on the trailer to clear out the water it blew the exhaust line that goes from the canister the regulator is on to the one at the back of the boat.
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