WFO Speedracer
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- Location
- Alabama
So this all started when I ended up with a set of purple fuel lines biz fuel lines. I won't go into how that came to be since it is irrelevant and several people here know already. I remember reading several posts about how these lines were Alcohol fuel compatible and how UV stabilizers had been added to prevent premature cracking and hardening.My lines are now hard , horribly discolored and no longer anything resembling purple.
At any rate I installed them on my X2, now the X2 is my backup boat so it sits around quite a bit, I have no fuel petcock, just a pickup , a vent and a return, probably 8 ft of fuel line max. I have a front pickup that I modded from a Seadoo and a clunk on the end of the pickup. So I get the ski out first time this year and it doesn't run right, I ended up pulling the carb at the ramp and there was gunk in the filter, not really a problem, I cleaned the filter and rode the rest of the day.
About a month later I meet up with a guy off the board who wants to ride an X2, I had siphoned all the gas out of the X2 the day before and the tank was spotless, fresh gas was installed and I fired it up. When I backed it in at the ramp and fired it up it sounded funny,there was a long no wake zone at this place and as soon as I exited the no wake zone I hit the gas and it fell flat on its face, I turned around and barely made it back to the boat ramp. Back in the carb I go and the internal filter is stopped up again with greyish looking gunk, I clean it outs reinstall the carb and go back through the no wake zone, I hit the gas and it takes off for a split second and falls flat on its face again. I baby it back to the ramp and load it back on the trailer.
So today I finally get around to yanking the fuel lines, grey gunk is all inside the filter and clogging up the internal filter, the hole on the return is stopped completely up and there is green goo around all the brass fittings on the carb. The return fitting has grey gunk all inside it as does the pulse fitting, you guessed it I used a piece of the purple fuel line for the pulse line.
Now I am not calling anyone out here but with the clunk installed on the end of the pickup the gunk had to have come from inside the fuel lines, I know the tank was spotlessly clean as was the fuel I put in it, it didn't come from the filter, this leaves the fuel lines. I rebuild carbs and replace fuel lines here damn near every day, the greyish gunk and green goo on the fittings looks remarkably similar to the crap I see inside the Seadoo carbs, the inside of the grey fuel lines also looks very similar to the material the fuel lines biz stuff is made of. I now have Gates green stripe 1/4 automotive fuel line on my ski, thats how its going to stay, the little amount of bling the lines provided is not worth the trouble they caused me.
Bottom line if you are having weird running problems with your ski and you are running these lines you might want to take a look inside the carbs, you may find your answer there.
At any rate I installed them on my X2, now the X2 is my backup boat so it sits around quite a bit, I have no fuel petcock, just a pickup , a vent and a return, probably 8 ft of fuel line max. I have a front pickup that I modded from a Seadoo and a clunk on the end of the pickup. So I get the ski out first time this year and it doesn't run right, I ended up pulling the carb at the ramp and there was gunk in the filter, not really a problem, I cleaned the filter and rode the rest of the day.
About a month later I meet up with a guy off the board who wants to ride an X2, I had siphoned all the gas out of the X2 the day before and the tank was spotless, fresh gas was installed and I fired it up. When I backed it in at the ramp and fired it up it sounded funny,there was a long no wake zone at this place and as soon as I exited the no wake zone I hit the gas and it fell flat on its face, I turned around and barely made it back to the boat ramp. Back in the carb I go and the internal filter is stopped up again with greyish looking gunk, I clean it outs reinstall the carb and go back through the no wake zone, I hit the gas and it takes off for a split second and falls flat on its face again. I baby it back to the ramp and load it back on the trailer.
So today I finally get around to yanking the fuel lines, grey gunk is all inside the filter and clogging up the internal filter, the hole on the return is stopped completely up and there is green goo around all the brass fittings on the carb. The return fitting has grey gunk all inside it as does the pulse fitting, you guessed it I used a piece of the purple fuel line for the pulse line.
Now I am not calling anyone out here but with the clunk installed on the end of the pickup the gunk had to have come from inside the fuel lines, I know the tank was spotlessly clean as was the fuel I put in it, it didn't come from the filter, this leaves the fuel lines. I rebuild carbs and replace fuel lines here damn near every day, the greyish gunk and green goo on the fittings looks remarkably similar to the crap I see inside the Seadoo carbs, the inside of the grey fuel lines also looks very similar to the material the fuel lines biz stuff is made of. I now have Gates green stripe 1/4 automotive fuel line on my ski, thats how its going to stay, the little amount of bling the lines provided is not worth the trouble they caused me.
Bottom line if you are having weird running problems with your ski and you are running these lines you might want to take a look inside the carbs, you may find your answer there.
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