I have seen people use these before, none of my cheap a$$ customers of course , engine storage moisture indicators , it looks like these unscrew so you can replace the Dessicant in them, seems like a really good idea to me.
A guy up in the mountains here had his start near his house and drove up to a lake about 20 minutes away with it idling on the hauler. Cylinder was a different color once he got to the lake. I can guarantee you it was dry though - so that is a good method from what I've observed!
You can get away with that for 1- 2 minutes and it’s actually beneficial. Everyone else will look confused. They are the ones that end up selling their rusty crap here.
Yes I probably run them that long when winterizing them , it's kinda temperature dependent though the colder the temp the longer you can run it with no water.
Ya, I just go by feel. If I can still hold my hand on the head and cylinders on a 2 stroke, it's OK to run. Exhaust manifold on the 4 strokes.
Dame here if it's too hot to hold yout hand on comfortably cut it off
Well........it's not SUPPOSED to, but I've torn plenty of engines down that still had a tablespoon or so sitting down in the bottom of cylinders......not enough to freeze and bust out.
If I leave my jetskis outside in the summer they get too hot to put my hand on the engine without even running them.
What compression are you running? What’s your riding style?
When I worked at the stealership a JS300B1 came in that was having running issues , my buddy that worked there busted it off and it went wide open, full on closed throttle runaway , he had already pulled the plug wire off to no avail , he came running in the shop asking me what do we do , I said follow me , the ski was right outside the shop door, I went to the shop door and closed it , he asked aren't you going to try to shut it down, nope I said we are about to find out what's wrong with this one , lets go grab a drink out of the drink machine , it will shut itself off eventually.
