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Unless it says nose up and run the ski in the manual you usually have to get the nose down to get most of the water in the waterbox to blow out. You shouldn't see steam coming out of the exhaust on a cold engine with 10 seconds of run time. It takes a fair bit of heat to cause exhaust steam to...

That is a good point because I for some reason recall there's a Yamaha engine that is a little bit of a chore to do plugs too, can't remember which one. On 2-strokes I never apply fogging oil though the spark plug holes because it travels through the transfer ports to get there anyway and truth...

My rule of thumb is if you expect it to be 3+ months before you can get out on it again and it's not summer where you can do random trailer runs just to keep the oil semi-suspended through the motor, then you should winterize it. Anything that sits for long durations and hasn't been conditioned...

Running it for at least 30 minutes is a great idea and also what I do when a ski has been in storage for a year or more. You never know if they added ethanol blended fuel before putting it away for the year. If they did, all that condensation from warm cold changing during the cool down season...

A friend of mine had the head pipe crack on his 2-stroke sxr 800 once because he thought they didn't need to be winterized and left it in his backyard over the snow season. I found my OEM sj plastic pump cone split one year because the pump seals finally died and let water in and another buddy...

I think the 650SX was only around 50hp too

If they made a small beginner class ski though with a small motor that should pass no? I can see the point of the float test, and maybe the new standards of it require the hull to have a positive buoyancy vs. how the 2-stroke SuperJet would float but just barely bobbing at the surface. I saw a...

Yeah but you know how it works, if there's real promise with the patents, someone else will make a slight change to it, pick up the rest and make it their own. Kawi showed enough interest to put their name on it so that says something about where the tech is at or where it's going.

Never say never... https://www.visordown.com/news/general/kawasaki-developing-new-two-stroke-engine-there%E2%80%99s-catch

I'm still waiting for a reasonable answer as to why they chose to create a standup yacht. The whole point of a standup was to be small, light, challenging to learn but extremely fun learning. I started out on a rental 440 with zero experience and loved it so much I became the most common regular...

And that's why you're giving them an amazing price. For anyone else I would be thinking at least $180 plus supplies and as always, a stipulation of the ski must run reliably every time you try to start it or it's an automatic $60 fuel charge for wasting your time.

Reasonable? You're practically a saint my friend =) Up here in Canadaland to do a I charge $250+ supplies for on site service only. I have nowhere to have skis dropped off at home so all my work is done on site. I refuse to do mechanical repairs though because the amount of back n forth trips...

The 92+ Kawi 650sx can usually be had for a pretty low price and there's a fair bit of free mod work you can do to really improve it. There are also a fair number of light expense mods you can do to further improve it. The only downside to Kawi that I personally have seen is parts support. Those...

^^ are you sure the ski isn't pulling that abomination four letter f-word? =P

Can we make a puke emoji please? Someone? Anyone here? Sardines? Bluh!

I love meal ideas that use soft drinks as an ingredient lol

I love hash browns

I love mac n cheese