Re: sport jet 90
Just an update: got all my parts the other day and this morning, in the torrential rainfall we got here in central PA, I threw up a 13 x 13 canopy over the back half of the boat and got down to business. I put on the new voltage regulator... pretty simple. Changed out the coil pack on the #1 cylinder. Simple, too, but I did notice a design difference from old to new. The old one had a top magnet and a bottom one and each had half of the barrel part attatched so when you put them both on, the barrels touch in the middle. The new one, however, had a separate barrel (and it came with a replacement barrel which goes in between the top and bottom magnets. So OEM had a 2 piece magnet and the new one (from merc) has a 3 pc magnet.
I then moved on to removal of the nozzle, stator, wear ring, impellar, ride plate and grate. WOW was my wear ring jacked up!
the picture does it no justice! It was at least 1/4" deep all the way around and the previous owner apparently took silicone caulk and coated the whole inside of the wear ring in an attempt of get a more tolerable clearance.
the impellar was pretty worn out too
I replaced them both along with the stator oil, and readjusted and lubed everything on the rudder/nozzle assembly.
I pulled the ride plate and grate, too. Check this bad boy out!
pretty chewed up! I scraped and sanded all surfaces down there because there was white caulk all over everything!! I put a new intake grate on and then opened the ride plate box to find out that it was a complete kit(plate, gasket, screws) so now I have a gasket and screws for a ride plate that I have to send back. I had to put vaseline on the gasket to get it to slide up in there.... it was tight! All back together now!
Tomoro I have to replace the drive lube and put the flywheel cover back on and then see if it all works. Probably wont get a chance to take her out tomoro but by the end of the weekend I should. Im just hoping it all works!
I only had one problem the whole time: I stripped out the head of one of the ride plate screws when i was trying to remove it. Nothing a good screw extractor couldnt handle
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