Other The What is your biggest Rookie move on a build.

[jacintoacuna]

oh yeah one more sending my ride plate to garrett in pheonix i think his user name is flatewater or has a picture oh a yellow volswagon bug i send him a r and d ride plate so he can cut it and 20 bucks to mail it back and this scandolis az fool keeps my plate and my 20 buck . dont trust pheonix guys i been burned twice . garret u pump karma will get u

 

[motobehrens]

dont trust pheonix guys i been burned twice

Phoenix has it's share of sketchy people, just like any other city, but there are still plenty of good honest Jet Skiers in the Valley. You made the risky decision to buy a ski without paperwork, which in AZ it is both illegal to sell or buy a watercraft without paperwork. You also made the decision to send a rideplate and money to a guy you didn't know. Live and Learn.

 

[oxnard111]

Got too stoned one day and thought I would fill my buddies ski with gas before we rode and forgot that it was an internal fill, so the gas cap was just a hole in the ski so ended up filling 5 gallons into the hull.

Another time stoned again couldn't figure why my ski would only fire and instantly die, f-ed with it for an hour or so couldn't figure it out brought it to a friends house and realized the choke was in the on position, fml.

Hahaha... did the same exact thing on a 550 years and years ago. There may or may not have been a pipe involved.

 

[oxnard111]

hey you reminded me of another rookie move!

threading in the bolts for the fly wheel puller all the way into the stator coils! FOR SCIENCE!

I remember that one. hahah

 

[mthomps]

I bought a 300sx as my first ski. Every post ever said it was a turd. But I went and got it anyways. I bought a superjet the next season.

20 minute drive to launch ramp. Got backed in and forgot life jacket.

I used to tighten my gas cap insanely tight. I've spent upwards of 15 minutes trying to get it off to refuel looking like an ahole.

Left a rag in hull after unsticking bendix. Drive shaft shredded it up and I'm STILL picking out pieces after every ride.

Took stock exhaust off for no reason when unsticking said bendix. Spent four hours making exhaust gaskets so I could ride that evening.

 

[mwoodss]

87 kawi 650sx and it ran great, My first ski also. I got it about 2 weeks ago. Me n the old lady wanted to get out and ride so i just assumed everything was cool.... Runs great for a couple days so i go a little farther away from the boat ramp than i normally would and of course the motor eats 2 reeds.. old stock spring steel reeds...i swam me n the ski in for 2 hours, being passed while i waved for help by five boats but thats another post.... i got it back to the shop, cylinders walls chewed, bearings destroyed and bunch of metal in the bottom end.. off to sbt... fun fun..

 

[mthomps]

Man that is bs I've never been denied a tow or denied a towing...possibility they thought you were saying "yeahhh rock on" but in reality I've been taught if you see possibility of distress on the water you help no questions asked, so hump those guys. I've always stopped and checked out any situation no matter what just in case. Some just belong on land!

 

[Crab]

Tried to run amsoil at 100/1 because they said it was ok......

Towing my 550 behind a cruiz-a-home and watching it sub by itself...

 

[DarkWater]

On my girls ski, i used an exit nozzle with what i assumed was a siphon bilge nipple. Well i should have looked closer, it took me a few minutes to figure out why she was taking on water..
And i also forgot to put the little white clip on the steering cable, so the ski would only turn right. :banghead:

 

[sxi steve]

Man that is bs I've never been denied a tow or denied a towing...possibility they thought you were saying "yeahhh rock on" but in reality I've been taught if you see possibility of distress on the water you help no questions asked, so hump those guys. I've always stopped and checked out any situation no matter what just in case. Some just belong on land!

Yup, agree. That is BS! I don't know if I'm being to hard although...

I tell ya..., The longer I live the less faith I have in people in general. Too many people/adults are childish, stupid and have no common sense. So focused on themselves that they don't have enough sense to actually look around and observe what's going on around them and possibly be a contributor or help in society.

mthomps, you, my friend have common sense and care.

 

[masterblaster]

so does it make it better or worse that it was a 2 man operation?

Im guessing butti... I can picture the activity takin place before this work commences .. Bout the same as lettin zimmy in your ski with a wrench in the same condition..
So did you test it out,like he said,with some of the silly things that make it to must do mods on this site,you could have discovered the greatest ride plate of all time unknowingly....lol

how bout not tightening your cooling line clamp to the head pipe with a 90 deg fitting on it pointing straight at the front carb with a prox filter on it....ummmm hmm why is this pos breaking up so bad now all the sudden? oh nice now it wants to cut off completely..

 

[Matt_E]

Im guessing butti... I can picture the activity takin place before this work commences .. Bout the same as lettin zimmy in your ski with a wrench in the same condition..
So did you test it out,like he said,with some of the silly things that make it to must do mods on this site,you could have discovered the greatest ride plate of all time unknowingly....lol

how bout not tightening your cooling line clamp to the head pipe with a 90 deg fitting on it pointing straight at the front carb with a prox filter on it....ummmm hmm why is this pos breaking up so bad now all the sudden? oh nice now it wants to cut off completely..

Hah I've done this

 

[eyeless]

for some reason filled my sxr's pisser (the one on the back of the ski, next to the pump) with fiberglass.. Rode about 3 hours and blew a piston, still got to shore after that to get some tools to fix mate's ski on the other shore of the lake and rode back and forth
trying too much on an x2 that did not have a bilge nor a hood liner installed, still at the bottom of the lake ...

 

[jetpilot808]

Buying a Superjet.

 

[sxi steve]

Ooooooo.

 

[Texan33]

LOLOLOL... I'll bite.

I bought my sxr over to my friend's house the night before we headed out to the lake. We were doing some last-minute mods at night and drinking beers. My ski was on the trailer and I pulled the ski back off the trailer just enough to get the rideplate off. I was a bit wasted and decided to show my friend how the footholds work. I tried to get on my ski on the trailer but forgot that the rear was still hanging off the trailer........ BAM!! The whole ski fell off the trailer backward and slammed into the concrete driveway. The front of the trailer went upward and rolled away into the front yard bushes. I was standing in the tray when the whole thing went down! I was like "Holy ***t!" and my friend was like "What the ****?!?!"

 

[sxi steve]

^Lmao!!!

 

[JGringo]

20 years ago I installed one of those oversized westcoast gas tanks in a 550. You had to fill it at the tank. was not thinking and poured gas in through the gas cap. realized what i had done. Turned hull upside down to drain out gas. Went to put in water and battery was dead. No big deal, jump it off my X2 that was on the trailer. Jumper cables slipped of and Boom........ Uh, did not get all the gas out of the hull. I realized this as I flew though the air backwards landing in the water.

6 years ago had rubber dampner blow out. Called a buddy and drove 2 hours round trip to get another one. Come back, pull the motor (It was 11:00 pm at this point Memorial day weekend). Go to bed and get up early to put everything back in. Walk out to the shop, look at the motor sitting on the bench and started wondering why in the hell did I pull the motor, all I had to do was loosen the four motor mounts and shift the motor forward.............. dumb ass........

Funny, I almost did something similar.

I installed a gravity feed drag fuel cell in my modified SN that runs the fuel lines tight to the flywheel cover and underneath the rideplate. When my strap mounts broke and the tank shifted freely, I decided to live the motto "F~ck it" and found myself 20 feet from the dock bogging my way in... Opened the hood to find 3 gallons of gas unloading into my hull, a floating Ballistics battery, and my Dual one-way water dump valves unloading the gas into the water surrounding the boat launch. My hands were shaking and my adrenaline was out the roof while unhooking the battery... Made it out alive though.

2)

Big-bored, ported, piped, dual carb'd and dual cooled a 550 piston-port engine... No water restrictor to the pipe, never worked but couldn't figure out why... Clogged the cooling lines with sand (unknowingly) and she ran like a bat out of hell for 30 seconds into the middle of the lake. And then I swam that beautiful door-stop all the way back in... I came to find out later the carbs were different sizes as well (38mm & 40mm).

3)

Bought a 'broken-but-fixable' Polaris 780 ski from a machinist who's worked on skis his whole life. NEVER got it to work.

4)

Painted gel-coat on with no thinner and used a brush. I assumed it was like painting a house, SUPER ROOKIE mistake. Sanding it all off after was a total b!tch...

I have many more...
-Gringo

 

[McDog]

Thinking I could mod a ski for less than buying one with all the mods I wanted.

 

[Idok]

Thinking I could mod a ski for less than buying one with all the mods I wanted.

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