firstboat19
Cadet
- Joined
- Jun 21, 2003
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- 21
Hi, my friend has an 18ft Seadoo Challenger 1800. This weekend we took it out to the lake. A piece of towing rope got sucked in below the the engine (not the water intake, but some hole beneath the boat, behind intakes - had to dive in to get it out). It took him 1 hour to get it out! Then the boat went very slow - at 5000rpm it went ~ 15mph. Then the sound alarm went off (the engine got overheated!) We opened the engine compartment and the engines were half-submerged in the water! Later on we found out that one of the caps welded into the jet drive poped off thus letting the water flow into the boat.<br />Was wondering whether it's going to be an easy fix. Also any idea what kind of hole that was that sucked in the rope - cooling pump maybe? Any suggestion on how to fix/and then maintain the boat?<br />P.S. We ran the boat to the shore on the engine that was not leaking...it sounded rough, white smoke came out, sounded like water was entering air intake (we ran it very very slow).<br /><br />Thank you all in advance, any suggestions appreciated!<br /><br />NiK