- Location
- Birmingham
I've had 3-4 Waveblastders in my life and never ever blew up a water box till today. Blaster was fine all summer and then today was dying after several seconds of full throttle , then restarts no problem then dies again after another long run, then again and again.
Cleaned out the fuel filter (had a little debris in there but nothing major) and thought that was problem but when I took it out again, it had no bottom end and lazy acceleration. Also , just before going back out after cleaning the fuel filter, it was having problem restarting as if it had too much compression, and when I tried to force the restart by priming a bit of fuel, it managed to blow away from the coupling the long Black rubber exhaust piece that joins at the coupler just below the exhaust chamber, so I reconnected it thinking maybe there was exhaust leak causing it. After several runs of lazy pickup but then normal top end, I thought maybe carb needed cleaning or something so I put it up .
When I was doing water blowout second time, the engine started misfiring (it has never done this that bad) and before I could stop myself, I heard the dreaded BOoom and of course I knew it had blown. Water box was split and the hose separated again at the coupling.
I"m wondering if the box exploded and the engine acted funny due to back pressure?, or was it all just bad coincidence? I don't want to blow up another one so if anyone had similar experience,would like to know what might have caused it. Water was flowing outside the hull thru the bypass hose so it was getting water inside the exhaust , but I'm wondering if there was some kind of blockage in one of the other hoses cause the engine got pretty hot as was the waterbed.
Cleaned out the fuel filter (had a little debris in there but nothing major) and thought that was problem but when I took it out again, it had no bottom end and lazy acceleration. Also , just before going back out after cleaning the fuel filter, it was having problem restarting as if it had too much compression, and when I tried to force the restart by priming a bit of fuel, it managed to blow away from the coupling the long Black rubber exhaust piece that joins at the coupler just below the exhaust chamber, so I reconnected it thinking maybe there was exhaust leak causing it. After several runs of lazy pickup but then normal top end, I thought maybe carb needed cleaning or something so I put it up .
When I was doing water blowout second time, the engine started misfiring (it has never done this that bad) and before I could stop myself, I heard the dreaded BOoom and of course I knew it had blown. Water box was split and the hose separated again at the coupling.
I"m wondering if the box exploded and the engine acted funny due to back pressure?, or was it all just bad coincidence? I don't want to blow up another one so if anyone had similar experience,would like to know what might have caused it. Water was flowing outside the hull thru the bypass hose so it was getting water inside the exhaust , but I'm wondering if there was some kind of blockage in one of the other hoses cause the engine got pretty hot as was the waterbed.
