Back to the drawing board:facepalm:
Alright gentlemen, I have a 98 and 99 gtx limited. 99' runs like a beast, except, when you first go to give it throttle (I'm talking only on the lake) it bogs and will even die occasionally. However, if you flip the choke lever quickly, while giving it very little gas, it solves the problem until the next time you sit at idle for an extended amount of time...hmm. I have cleaned the carb but I didn't rebuild it yet.
The 98' is a whole different *****. This one was sand barred and the lady ran it trying to get back all plugged up. To my knowledge it damn near sank due to the hole she burned in the resonator trying to start it plugged. Since this incident, I've replaced the resonator although the one they gave me is smaller it seems than the one I took out, I guess the part has been superseded. I rebuilt the carbs, and replace the regulatory valve that sits on the muffler which had also melted. I cleared the bottom line (packed with sand) that runs to the bottom of the motor and also mildly flushed water through it to get the rest of the sand out. It runs now....just not great. By the way also when I got it the coil box was full of water, I thought that was cute. At the moment it seems as though it's starving for gas but it will run and once up to "top speed" about 38-42 mph says the gauge, it runs allot cleaner. It does however die at every chance it can get including just before I hit the trailer...that was fun.
I went to pull it out of the water running and couldn't get it to start again, but immediately when I was all the way out of the water (on the trailer at the dock) it fired right up. I had the idle set up to approx 1200 but up that high the "no wake" speed is more like hauling ***. My guess is that I have the mixtures on both machines all tinkerbelled, but lord knows at this point.
SOrry to make you read the epistle of these wave runners but the history is dense.
Cheers...you guys all kick *** for real.
Alright gentlemen, I have a 98 and 99 gtx limited. 99' runs like a beast, except, when you first go to give it throttle (I'm talking only on the lake) it bogs and will even die occasionally. However, if you flip the choke lever quickly, while giving it very little gas, it solves the problem until the next time you sit at idle for an extended amount of time...hmm. I have cleaned the carb but I didn't rebuild it yet.
The 98' is a whole different *****. This one was sand barred and the lady ran it trying to get back all plugged up. To my knowledge it damn near sank due to the hole she burned in the resonator trying to start it plugged. Since this incident, I've replaced the resonator although the one they gave me is smaller it seems than the one I took out, I guess the part has been superseded. I rebuilt the carbs, and replace the regulatory valve that sits on the muffler which had also melted. I cleared the bottom line (packed with sand) that runs to the bottom of the motor and also mildly flushed water through it to get the rest of the sand out. It runs now....just not great. By the way also when I got it the coil box was full of water, I thought that was cute. At the moment it seems as though it's starving for gas but it will run and once up to "top speed" about 38-42 mph says the gauge, it runs allot cleaner. It does however die at every chance it can get including just before I hit the trailer...that was fun.
I went to pull it out of the water running and couldn't get it to start again, but immediately when I was all the way out of the water (on the trailer at the dock) it fired right up. I had the idle set up to approx 1200 but up that high the "no wake" speed is more like hauling ***. My guess is that I have the mixtures on both machines all tinkerbelled, but lord knows at this point.
SOrry to make you read the epistle of these wave runners but the history is dense.
Cheers...you guys all kick *** for real.