They come in all shapes and sizes and with vairing degrees of intellengence...
I did a service on a 1997 GTX yesterday. When I finished the service work, I started it to check the idle speed which is susposed to be 3000 rpm out of the water. The motor ran at a little over 4000 rpm. I reached in to adjust the tee handle to lower the rpm, but it wouldn't come down and it had some slack in the throttle cable as it should.
I screwed around with it for awhile trying to detirmine why it was idling so fast when I noticed the fuel level was very low in the tank. I added a couple of gallons of fuel to the tank. I moved the selector knob to reserve. It still idled fast. I messed with it for another 15 minutes or so, looking for cracks or a base gasket problem.
About then, the owner came up and said that there was a "problem" with the fuel reserve selector position. I switched it to "on" and the idle came back down.
I told him that the selector valve needed replacing before he did further damage to the motor. I could hear the pistons rattling in the bores. He refused to have me install a new valve ( about $20.00 ) and he actually got mad at me for telling him that his motor was not in good condition, and that when a motor starts rattling, it probably won't last too long. He said he would continue to use the "on" position, and didn't need the reserve option.
I wrote the problems onto the work order, because I'm sure when it breaks, it will be my fault, as I will be the last guy who worked on it.......
Some people are idiots. If you take your ski in for service, let the mechanic know of any problems that you are aware of. This would have saved me about 20 minutes of dicking around. I could have at least tried to clean the valve for the guy. What gets me, is that his ski was so low on fuel that he must have run out of gas the last time he rode it if it was in the "on" position. No wonder his pistons rattle.
He probably cannot hear the rattling over the noise from the rocks in his head.......
I did a service on a 1997 GTX yesterday. When I finished the service work, I started it to check the idle speed which is susposed to be 3000 rpm out of the water. The motor ran at a little over 4000 rpm. I reached in to adjust the tee handle to lower the rpm, but it wouldn't come down and it had some slack in the throttle cable as it should.
I screwed around with it for awhile trying to detirmine why it was idling so fast when I noticed the fuel level was very low in the tank. I added a couple of gallons of fuel to the tank. I moved the selector knob to reserve. It still idled fast. I messed with it for another 15 minutes or so, looking for cracks or a base gasket problem.
About then, the owner came up and said that there was a "problem" with the fuel reserve selector position. I switched it to "on" and the idle came back down.
I told him that the selector valve needed replacing before he did further damage to the motor. I could hear the pistons rattling in the bores. He refused to have me install a new valve ( about $20.00 ) and he actually got mad at me for telling him that his motor was not in good condition, and that when a motor starts rattling, it probably won't last too long. He said he would continue to use the "on" position, and didn't need the reserve option.
I wrote the problems onto the work order, because I'm sure when it breaks, it will be my fault, as I will be the last guy who worked on it.......
Some people are idiots. If you take your ski in for service, let the mechanic know of any problems that you are aware of. This would have saved me about 20 minutes of dicking around. I could have at least tried to clean the valve for the guy. What gets me, is that his ski was so low on fuel that he must have run out of gas the last time he rode it if it was in the "on" position. No wonder his pistons rattle.
He probably cannot hear the rattling over the noise from the rocks in his head.......
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