New to PWC with a interesting prroject.

[Scott Bennett]

There is a cool guy at Jetskimaniaparts on Ebay that I'm working with on a 760 that is pretty fresh.
He has been working with us on figuring out how to ship it out here. Very willing to help us out. Few sellers I ran into willing to do any leg work for us. We dont normally ask for favors and it was very nice of them to offer. I'm sure I'll be chatting with Rdrttoy on this site as well. Everyone has been pretty helpful.
Thank you Quinc for the gracious words. It might be one in the same. If so thats awesome that they get such a good re pore here too.

 

[High Speed Industries]

I sent you a message on here. I'm not sure if you got it.

I'd be happy to help help your project get on the water.

 

[Scott Bennett]

Cool Rdrttoy, I got it and sent reply. Thanks
I'm not sure what the fuel is out here. I can imagine its super 91+ as they get most of it from Dubai and Kuwait. I know my little Suzuki I'll pull the boat with runs great with the extreme heat. Maybe one day if we feel froggy we can get a higher comp head for it just to see if it will show any difference. But I just know the 760 and even the 61X I have now will move it around to get the job done. How bad can it be? LOL.

 

[Scott Bennett]

Well,
It's Sunday.
All the plans fell through for getting the boat in the water today.
Eid al-Adha starts tomorrow and through my ignorance I didnt know that fasting starts today.
It is what it is. Next Sunday will be the water test. We taken every precaution when fiberglassing and ensured to start every seam with 3M 5200. I doubt we need the float test. I've taken some extra bicycle brake control cable and soldered on a new barrel and soldered a loop on the other end to connect to the throttle lever. I should be able to connect this with a small "D" ring. The motor has been re-installed. I googled the 44 carb for line routing. I looped the one-way vent and the water separator so I only have 2 lines to deal with. I can easily blow through all the cooling lines. With a little priming the engine starts up and runs strong. LOTS of smoke. I think the Castol 2 stroke is a bit heavy. I'll need to re-route the water box so maybe a silicone inter-cooler kit from Ebay is in order. I can put it way in the back. This leads me to a question. Because I dont need to conform to normal packaging restraints, can I use any CC appropriate sized mufflers? We can get the SeaBees to weld anything on for a mating surface. I'm learning the whole wet vs dry pipe thing. We need the reliability and less heat of the wet pipe I think. All thoughts on this are welcome.

 

[Scott Bennett]

Lots of trust in this old machinery. We can use rope to build a rig to hoist it into the small channel right nest to the crane.

 

[Scott Bennett]

Its been about 120-ish and 75% humidity so work is very slow.
We have the floor in and the seat box in. The center is hollow to allow plenty of room for sound deadening of the motor and insulation for cup holders.
The entire top flips forward to allow access to two storage areas and the motor.

 

[svtman]

Man im loving this project and been keeping tabs! Great way for you guys to blow off steam and do something for yourselves! Keep it up and i cant wait for a ride report! And for trim tabs use a turn buckle and some plate and attach with hinges. Should be some stuff thats easy to find, hopefully.


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[Scraggly]

love it!

 

[Scott Bennett]

It is a great way to blow of steam your right. I love it, well all but the sanding. I've always disliked that. Lately its been a great weight loss program as well, as it is so darn hot and humid. The rear flip down bench is done and waiting for us to find some grey packing foam to pad it and then I'll whip up a seat cover for it. Maybe this weekend. To cover it though I have to take it completely apart which wont be too much fun.

 

[Scott Bennett]

here is a little paint on it to help clean it up.
Ive tried my hand at sewing the seats and should have the finished product complete by Sat this week.

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[MADMAT]

Can't wait for vid of it running around!

 

[newbee]

Nice work.

 

[Tyler Zane]

Cool project!

Atleast today was a nice day with lots of cloud coverage! Whatcha doing in Djibouti? I work at chabelley airfeild, but do spend some time at lemonnier.

I can get mail in 10 days of so to my apo and could order off Amazon prime with free shipping. Let me if I can help with any tid bits.

 

[Scott Bennett]

Wow 10 days. I've have parts out that are easy 4 weeks old.
Tzane, PM me, we will have to grab a Green Beans Coffee here in the next few days brother.

 

[Tyler Zane]

Ya man, sounds good!

 

[Scott Bennett]

Can anyone help me out?
I bought the 760 engine from Tyler, user name jetskimaniaparts on Ebay. Paid full price with shipping and he has seemed to skip town.
I cant send any messages nor file a claim. It looks like we got the shuffle of "I'm boxing it up, and it will be in the mail tomorrow"
IF you have any info on him please forward to me as I am currently in TX and always ready for a road trip.

 

[Blaine Mac]

That sucks, I hate to hear stories like this. I hope you find him.

 

[MADMAT]

I messaged him on Ebay and included a link to this thread.

He has crappy feedback/rating no doubt!

 

[Blaine Mac]

Item location:
Cheswick, Pennsylvania, United States

 

[feartheride]

How did you pay with PayPal should be able to put a claim in with them ?