- Location
- Pennsylvania
Been having fun all summer on my 96 waveblaster. Mods include head, red riva pipe, scoop grate, impeller, jet dynamics ride plate, & others.
It has been converted to premix
Ski had been running great all summer.
A few days ago, I just launched, let the ski warm up (nothing over 1/4 throttle for a minute or so)
My brother and I decided we were going to head down river about 1 mile to catch up with a few friends who were already down that way. So my brother (riding a 1100 sitdown) and I (on the blaster) headed off pretty fast. After about 1/2 mile out, I had the ski pretty well pinned trying to keep up with the 1100, if not completely wide open throttle. Cruising along nicely, then the motor just fell flat on its face. Wasn't a complete lock up, just went from pinned to dead in about 2-3 seconds.
Came to a stop, I hit the starter, I could hear the starter trying to crank it over, but it was pretty locked up. It felt like it would try to crank 1/10th of a revolution, but just couldn't turn over. It had the exact same feeling as being hydro-locked. But there was no water in the hull to hydro-lock the engine.
So my brother towed me back to shore.
Today when I wasn't home, my brother started digging into it. He owns a small engine repair business and is very good at rebuilding engines. He called me early today and said that one of the first things he did was a compression check and the front cylinder was extremely low. I think he said 25 or 75 lbs.
He said that he would gladly tear into it to see what all went wrong. I trust his mechanical ability, I'd just like to ask on here for some advice as to how best to dig into this.
I only natually assume we will be pulling out the entire engine. How best should we pull the engine. Is there anything that should be left attached, anything that should be not completely removed, but maybe just moved back out of the way. This is a 96 dual carb blaster.
It doesn't seem to be much of an issue to pull the engine, I just want to make sure we aren't doing extra unnecessary steps.
Furthermore, what should we be looking into as for the reason why the engine seized. Carb leaning out.
The pisser was running fine, so it wasn't that the engine overheated. The premixed was properly mixed, so it isn't that either.
I remember a while back a friend had to do a rebuild on a seadoo because of crank seals going out which causes a lean condition. Could that be a potential culprit on this 701?
Any advice that I can get will be greatly appreciated.
:sadwavey:
It has been converted to premix
Ski had been running great all summer.
A few days ago, I just launched, let the ski warm up (nothing over 1/4 throttle for a minute or so)
My brother and I decided we were going to head down river about 1 mile to catch up with a few friends who were already down that way. So my brother (riding a 1100 sitdown) and I (on the blaster) headed off pretty fast. After about 1/2 mile out, I had the ski pretty well pinned trying to keep up with the 1100, if not completely wide open throttle. Cruising along nicely, then the motor just fell flat on its face. Wasn't a complete lock up, just went from pinned to dead in about 2-3 seconds.
Came to a stop, I hit the starter, I could hear the starter trying to crank it over, but it was pretty locked up. It felt like it would try to crank 1/10th of a revolution, but just couldn't turn over. It had the exact same feeling as being hydro-locked. But there was no water in the hull to hydro-lock the engine.
So my brother towed me back to shore.
Today when I wasn't home, my brother started digging into it. He owns a small engine repair business and is very good at rebuilding engines. He called me early today and said that one of the first things he did was a compression check and the front cylinder was extremely low. I think he said 25 or 75 lbs.
He said that he would gladly tear into it to see what all went wrong. I trust his mechanical ability, I'd just like to ask on here for some advice as to how best to dig into this.
I only natually assume we will be pulling out the entire engine. How best should we pull the engine. Is there anything that should be left attached, anything that should be not completely removed, but maybe just moved back out of the way. This is a 96 dual carb blaster.
It doesn't seem to be much of an issue to pull the engine, I just want to make sure we aren't doing extra unnecessary steps.
Furthermore, what should we be looking into as for the reason why the engine seized. Carb leaning out.
The pisser was running fine, so it wasn't that the engine overheated. The premixed was properly mixed, so it isn't that either.
I remember a while back a friend had to do a rebuild on a seadoo because of crank seals going out which causes a lean condition. Could that be a potential culprit on this 701?
Any advice that I can get will be greatly appreciated.
:sadwavey:
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