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hi my name is Tony Underwood and i live in the south west of the uk.
last summer i managed to melt the plastic part of the exhaust on my xp. not noticing that this had occurred, my jet ski filled with water, and very nearly hit the bottom of the deep blue sea.
it wasn't until the engine came to an abrupt stop, that i realised something was wrong.
after being rescued i immediately flushed out the water and prayed..........
7 days later after replacing all melted exhaust parts etc, i took the machine out on the water again..
after about ten minutes of splashing about she decided to throw out the big ends, which as you can imagine, took out the pistons and any thing else it possible could of!
over the next two weeks i stripped the xp and decided to build her good as new........
new crank, pistons, etc etc......
finally got the parts shipped from the US and began to rebuild the mighty beast.
bearing in mind that my 98 model xp ltd had only done an incredible 21 hours from new!!!!!!!!!!!!
after rebuilding her and re installing the engine, i had to work away from home so there was about a 60 day gap before i could start and test the xp.
when starting her, she sounded fine. but being Mr butter fingers a dropped a bolt under the exhaust, so i had to remove the exhaust to locate it...........
that's when my disaster struck.... when removing the exhaust, i found new pieces of pistons and rings in the exhaust ahhhhhhhhhgggggggggggg.
i believe what has happened is that the rave valves have some how, hit the pistons and knocked off their tops taking the rings out as well.
ive asked many jetski centres and other technically minded people how this could have happened, but ive only received negative answers and may people scratching their head!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
could my problem be common?
have i done something wrong?
is the crank defective?
who knows the answers to this except god!
all i know is.
if my machine had, had the recall for the air filter, i believe that this would never had happened in the first place.
but whets more of a kick in the teeth is that i must be the only person in the world, who has managed to blow a jet ski up, on the trailer and in the garden.
also now i have the problem of why why why ... and what to do!
if you have any advise i would forever grateful, because i and many others are eagerly waiting some answers, that are logical and practicasl.
please help a fellow lover of the mighty SEA-DOO and make my life complete again
many thanks
Tony Underwood
last summer i managed to melt the plastic part of the exhaust on my xp. not noticing that this had occurred, my jet ski filled with water, and very nearly hit the bottom of the deep blue sea.
it wasn't until the engine came to an abrupt stop, that i realised something was wrong.
after being rescued i immediately flushed out the water and prayed..........
7 days later after replacing all melted exhaust parts etc, i took the machine out on the water again..
after about ten minutes of splashing about she decided to throw out the big ends, which as you can imagine, took out the pistons and any thing else it possible could of!
over the next two weeks i stripped the xp and decided to build her good as new........
new crank, pistons, etc etc......
finally got the parts shipped from the US and began to rebuild the mighty beast.
bearing in mind that my 98 model xp ltd had only done an incredible 21 hours from new!!!!!!!!!!!!
after rebuilding her and re installing the engine, i had to work away from home so there was about a 60 day gap before i could start and test the xp.
when starting her, she sounded fine. but being Mr butter fingers a dropped a bolt under the exhaust, so i had to remove the exhaust to locate it...........
that's when my disaster struck.... when removing the exhaust, i found new pieces of pistons and rings in the exhaust ahhhhhhhhhgggggggggggg.
i believe what has happened is that the rave valves have some how, hit the pistons and knocked off their tops taking the rings out as well.
ive asked many jetski centres and other technically minded people how this could have happened, but ive only received negative answers and may people scratching their head!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
could my problem be common?
have i done something wrong?
is the crank defective?
who knows the answers to this except god!
all i know is.
if my machine had, had the recall for the air filter, i believe that this would never had happened in the first place.
but whets more of a kick in the teeth is that i must be the only person in the world, who has managed to blow a jet ski up, on the trailer and in the garden.
also now i have the problem of why why why ... and what to do!
if you have any advise i would forever grateful, because i and many others are eagerly waiting some answers, that are logical and practicasl.
please help a fellow lover of the mighty SEA-DOO and make my life complete again
many thanks
Tony Underwood
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