douglee25
m3booooy
- Location
- South Jersey
So this weekend Casa and I are down Ventnor at the ramp getting ready to load up and leave the bay. Before we leave a bunch of Russians unload this 3 seater Seadoo. The guy starts it up and rides off at full throttle in a no wake zone. About 5 of his buddies on the shoreline clap. I'm thinking wow these guys must be newbies. He rides for 5 minutes and then comes back into the shore. They all BS and laugh for a few and then the guy gets back on. He starts it up and I hear BANG BOOM CLANK CLICK!!!! I'm like I bet you 10 bucks he sucked up a rock. Sure enough he hits the starter button... click click click (just the solenoid clicking). I go bring it over here buddy. He walks it over and I turn it on it's side. I peer into the intake grate and sure enough I see a rock stuck in there. The wear ring was completely torn up. As I'm looking at the ski now on it's side, I look to the back and both drain plugs aren't screwed in. :dunno: I go hey buddy, you know you forgot your drain plugs? He goes huh? 
I said these.... you don't put these in, you go sinky in the water. Bad bad bad! Now he translates for his buddies and then you hear them all gasp. LoL!! I pull off the grate to see if we can get to the rock but it was way too far back. We roll it back down on it's side and I said ok I want to see the engine. He goes huh? I said the engine.... pull the seat off. He goes huh? I said when did you get this thing? He goes this week. LOL! Did you get a book with it? Book he says? I said yes, the manual? I don't know, I call guy this week (said just like that). I'm like lordy. So we pull the seat and I could find no easy way to turn the engine with a socket wrench in reverse to unjam the rock. Then he goes what is this? (pointing to the flush hose inside the engine compartment) I said this is your flush hose. You hooked up your garden hose to this after you're done riding for the day. He goes huh? So I explain to him the process of flushing the ski. At this point I'm pretty pissed that somone could come out here so unprepared that I said look man, your best bet is to take the ski to a dealer and have him fix it. Get a manual while you're there and read it. Put it on the trailer and call it a day. He goes, I fix I fix. I said you best not, take it to the dealer. They looked so pissed at me after I sat there for 30 minutes trying to fix there POS and then left without succeeding. Oh well, it was good for a laugh.:biggrin:
Doug
I said these.... you don't put these in, you go sinky in the water. Bad bad bad! Now he translates for his buddies and then you hear them all gasp. LoL!! I pull off the grate to see if we can get to the rock but it was way too far back. We roll it back down on it's side and I said ok I want to see the engine. He goes huh? I said the engine.... pull the seat off. He goes huh? I said when did you get this thing? He goes this week. LOL! Did you get a book with it? Book he says? I said yes, the manual? I don't know, I call guy this week (said just like that). I'm like lordy. So we pull the seat and I could find no easy way to turn the engine with a socket wrench in reverse to unjam the rock. Then he goes what is this? (pointing to the flush hose inside the engine compartment) I said this is your flush hose. You hooked up your garden hose to this after you're done riding for the day. He goes huh? So I explain to him the process of flushing the ski. At this point I'm pretty pissed that somone could come out here so unprepared that I said look man, your best bet is to take the ski to a dealer and have him fix it. Get a manual while you're there and read it. Put it on the trailer and call it a day. He goes, I fix I fix. I said you best not, take it to the dealer. They looked so pissed at me after I sat there for 30 minutes trying to fix there POS and then left without succeeding. Oh well, it was good for a laugh.:biggrin: Doug
