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- Costa Mesa CA
10-4 CMDR
Last Ditch Effort
- Thread starter Ryan Declark
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- Costa Mesa CA
just a thought, kinda been thinking about this all winter, with all this new found heat from the port and polish, since im running none girtled, is it possible im loosing compression after awhile due to a warping effect to the cylinders/head heating up and cooling, and not having the head bolted to bottom of case?
Quinc
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- California
Nope. The girdle kit is to help keep the cylinders from cracking. As long as you have everything torqued to spec, and check torque again after a few rides you will be fine. The cylinders should run around 120-140ish degrees. not too cold, not too hot.
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- Costa Mesa CA
interesting, do they sell heat sensor set-ups for skis, almost like engine temp for cars? think that would be pretty cool to have a heat temp gauge on the handlebars and give me a little assurance that nothing is falling apart while im riding the thing.
No. Just put an adhesive temp strip on the head. As long as the water coming out of your pissers isn't too hot nothing is falling apart.
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- Costa Mesa CA
okay. well im gonna start putting money away now that way i can get some work done to the ski and put it in the shop in about a month.
Quinc
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- California
What Roseand said. Feel the water coming out of the pisser while you are riding. It should be HOT, but not burn the crap out of your hand hot.
Start with reading every thread here:
http://www.x-h2o.com/index.php?forums/tech-faq.26/
Start with reading every thread here:
http://www.x-h2o.com/index.php?forums/tech-faq.26/
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- Costa Mesa CA
Did some further investigation. Seized the crank. Top end is screwed. Everything basically done. Dont know what happened all i know is that it looks really bad. Question, Buy a used engine from someone or try to fix it all.
- Location
- Lake Havasu City, AZ USA
OP: "Did some further investigation. Seized the crank. Top end is screwed. Everything basically done. Dont know what happened all i know is that it looks really bad."
This was my ski 7 years ago and I just bought it back from Ryan a month and half ago. The whole top end was missing and the B pipe also. Took apart the carb for cleaning etc. for another project and found this, a completely plugged basket filter. Looks like some weird black thin plastic stuff mixed with animal hair and another fiber that reminds me of cigarette filter material. Also the old OEM carb lines were pretty damn hard, so that black shizz is prolly hose inards..
CASE #6325867574-2 closed!
This was my ski 7 years ago and I just bought it back from Ryan a month and half ago. The whole top end was missing and the B pipe also. Took apart the carb for cleaning etc. for another project and found this, a completely plugged basket filter. Looks like some weird black thin plastic stuff mixed with animal hair and another fiber that reminds me of cigarette filter material. Also the old OEM carb lines were pretty damn hard, so that black shizz is prolly hose inards..
CASE #6325867574-2 closed!
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Quinc
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- California
Invest 4$ in an inline fuel filter. 
- Location
- Lake Havasu City, AZ USA
Invest 4$ in an inline fuel filter.
Ya, it had a fuel filter and I'm pretty sure that its the one I put in there originally, could be deteriorated fibers from that. I haven't blown through the old filter to see if its any kind of plugged... prolly wont either...lol