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    Winterize Sea-rayder F16

    Appart from removing the oil in the gearcase and stator in case there's water and it freeze, and also pouring some oil in the cylinders and stabilizer in the fuel, is there anything else I need to do? I'll also remove the battery to keep it in a warm place on a low amp charger. does the engine...
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    Bombardier 3D Jetski/seadoo

    Good or bad? I'm looking to sell my F16 to buy this thing. Seadoo seat for cruise, jet-ski mode for fun. Seems to be a good thing. And they seem to be quite cheap for their year, but they are very rare too.
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    carb problem??

    I have a force 120 on a Sportjet mercury unit. I did a decarb yesterday on it and noticed something strange. I removed the air intake box, held the engine to 1800RPM then sprayed deep creep trough the top carb. nothing happened. sprayed deep creep trough bottom carb, engine struggles. Is...
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    Sportjet Gas/oil mix

    I have a 120 Sportjet with the oil injection cancelled. Did a compression test last week, it's not very good. 135-150-125-150. Plugs were kinda blackened from oil, my mechanic told me to put less oil, i'm running 50:1 and he told me to go 75:1 since i use synthetic oil. I tought it was a bit...
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    Top speed on Sportjet120

    Well, i'm out of help in the PWC so I,ll try here. I have a Searayder F16 with the sportjet 120xr. I just rebuilded the jet pump, new wear ring, new Solas impeller, new ride plate, everything rebuilded according to the Mercury manual. Top speed of the boat is 38MPH. My jet pump do cavitate...
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    Repairing screw holes in transom

    I have a Searayder F16 and I'll need to move my speed sensor and Sonar sensor to be able to install SmartTabs on it. Unfortunately, i'll have screw holes on my transom and i need to repair these before I install the trim tabs. How do I repair this so I'll never have any problems in the future...
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    Turbine clearances

    Does anybody know what are the minimum/maximum clearances between the impeller and wear ring for a sportjet 120HP ? I have all the books in the boat but nowhere they talk about this. I'd like to know the stock (brand new) clearance if possible so i can see how much worn mine is. EDIT : forgot...
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    Installing Smart Tabs on Sea-rayder F16

    I received my smart tabs today. When i opened the package i noticed this little message: http://www.nauticusinc.com/pdf/SX_cautions.pdf Obviously, on the smart tabs product description, this message is not shown. Then I started to look for the stainless steel smart tabs. The only difference i...
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    Searayder F16 120HP questions.

    I just bought a SeaRayder F16 with the 120HP sportsjet unit. it's a 1996 one and it has 288hours. I do know that the engine has been rebuilted because the oil injection system as been cancelled. I just tried it today (got it today) on very calm water. Boat take off nicely but not super fast...
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