300/440/550 550 hell....

so my ski performed well then not then well then not. so im pretty new and i took my ski out over labor day first day ski initially ran well had a good hour of riding but after that hell. the ski sucked something in the pump im assuming being new slowly rode the ski to shore n shut it down afraid to try n stop n restart way off the beach riding by myself. after getting back to the beach i lugged er on the cart n tried to fire it off on the stand it turned over quick at first then sounded like the battery died turned over very slow so i figured my battery was dead. next day i put er on the charger it said around 95% i let it fully charge n took it back down to the beach she fired no problem i did a quick lap n went back in to throw my flip flops off n it took a while to start when it did all bogged out n it took about a minute for it to level out i said screw it took off stood up rode around roe about 5 mins and it went goofy made it back in and that is it once again battery seemed dead turned over fast at first then slowed very fast. i got the ski home and hooked to my charger again said the same about 95% let it sit and hooked it up to the hose she fired off again sounded decent i guess shut it down and the same thing battery sounded dead i jumped it to a fresh charged car battery and same thing. so im thinking the starter is bad just worn out and i need to tune still to tune jmadden91 gave what i needed to tune but didn't get the chance. sorry about the long post im just trying to get the most input i can any insight on what i should do next would be helpful.. here is a video of sombodys ski that sounds the same when trying to start. http://youtu.be/W_BmEq0aAZk
 
so my ski performed well then not then well then not. so im pretty new and i took my ski out over labor day first day ski initially ran well had a good hour of riding but after that hell. the ski sucked something in the pump im assuming being new slowly rode the ski to shore n shut it down afraid to try n stop n restart way off the beach riding by myself. after getting back to the beach i lugged er on the cart n tried to fire it off on the stand it turned over quick at first then sounded like the battery died turned over very slow so i figured my battery was dead. next day i put er on the charger it said around 95% i let it fully charge n took it back down to the beach she fired no problem i did a quick lap n went back in to throw my flip flops off n it took a while to start when it did all bogged out n it took about a minute for it to level out i said screw it took off stood up rode around roe about 5 mins and it went goofy made it back in and that is it once again battery seemed dead turned over fast at first then slowed very fast. i got the ski home and hooked to my charger again said the same about 95% let it sit and hooked it up to the hose she fired off again sounded decent i guess shut it down and the same thing battery sounded dead i jumped it to a fresh charged car battery and same thing. so im thinking the starter is bad just worn out and i need to tune still to tune jmadden91 gave what i needed to tune but didn't get the chance. sorry about the long post im just trying to get the most input i can any insight on what i should do next would be helpful.. here is a video of sombodys ski that sounds the same when trying to start. http://youtu.be/W_BmEq0aAZk
Mine did the same thing when i got it, if you have the same problem then it is a bad ground to the starter. my ground was on my intake manifold, i relocated it to the rear bracket for the starter after i sanded the bracket down to bare metal and that fixed my problem.
Good Luck
 
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