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I really don't remember what exactly was going on with this ski , I do remember it was electrical , so I started back at the beginning. The engine turns over nicely but it has no spark, a quick check of the Exciter coil on the stator gave no AC voltage reading off the black -red wire so , the...

Pretty much you disassemble the engine down to the bare cases , that way you can spin the bearings and make sure they are all good, put in a new set of crankshaft seals, have the cylinders bored and the cylinder deck checked then go from there.

I will take some real pics next time I take one out for more than two minutes.

I spent about 30 minutes with 2000 grit sandpaper to get the rest off , It has a couple of small gelcoat dings, smaller than the head of a pencil, should be a easy fix , dot it with a carbide bit on a die grinder pull in gelcoat mixed with cabosil then sand and buff , no big deal. I can go...

Thanks for the update , now I will know where to start.

I am always keen to start a new project , now finishing one well that's a different story but anyway here goes. The 97 GTX is not quite done yet it's close but we will circle back to it in a bit , meet Big Nasty , aptly named because it's big and it's damn sure nasty , the best part about Big...

A friend of mine or should I say he was a friend at the time , came by one Sunday and wanted me to clean the carb on a Honda XL70 he had put up for sale, he knew well in advance the guy was coming to pick it up and driving 6 hrs to get it , previously I had told him to put AVGAS in his stuff so...

So I had mentioned I had a quasi business partner earlier , his name is Doug , I have been trying to mentor him a bit and I can see that he is just not getting it , I can tell by the phone calls I have received from him recently that he doesn't even know what he doesn't know. A few weeks back I...

That shot is from the Honda outboard factory in Japan .

One other thing Kawasaki cylinders are known for pulling up the deck slightly where the studs are put in at , it may be out enough that it is causing sealing issues on the head gasket , the fix is to deck the top of the cylinder to get it flat again .

Go to this site : https://imgur.com/ Upload your photos , right beside the IGMUR logo is a green box with a + symbol in the middle , click on it , then either drag and drop your photo or click on choose photos , that will upload the photo to the site. Bring your cursor over to the photo and a...

There is one more place but there is a story here so wait till the end. When I worked at the Kawi dealership we sold a new Kawasaki X2 , the customer kept saying it did not run right, compression , reeds all the normal stuff checked out so I took it and water tested it, he was correct in the...

I have a huge exhaust fan at the shop and had to buy a rather expensive 220 motor for it , the pully on the old motor had a set screw that was stuck pretty good , the guys at M&M eclectic motor reached for a can of kroil , sprayed it waited a minute and it came right off, I have been sold on it...

Weld a big a$$ nut onto that impeller and screw it off then cut the nut back off . One other random thought I had on this . I know how the tools are supposed to work but what if you could secure the impeller down to the workbench with a large rachet strap like truckers use and a couple of...

An inside look of how Yamaha watercraft are built at the factory in Newnan Ga. , click n the link below : https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/inside-massive-factory-building-powerful-jet-skis-from-scratch/vi-AA1Msxn5?ocid=msedgntp&pc=U531&cvid=68c6801edd1843919ce617827bb25da1&ei=37

It all works together but the carb pulls fuel through the low speed circuit at all times and throttle settings , what I described is basically an over-rich situation on the low speed screws which quite coincidently is how most carbs on freestyle skis are set up . It gives makes for much easier...

Ok I had a minute to think here and I am not sure how far out the low speed adjusters already are right now , before you change anything out try this first , back out the low speeds screws about 3/4 to 1 turn from where they are right now , make sure they are not out over two full turns, idle...

The problem is pretty much everyone that mods these ditches the stock airbox so there are very few jetting recommendations out there that retain the stock airbox and anything using individual filters is going to be way off. I usually just use the Oside Bill jetting specs with the Pro K filters...

Customers , I had a customer that bought a Yamaha Waverunner XL760 off market place, no test ride , no nothing, he put it in the water and it didn't run , he contacted Doug and Doug contacted me. I look at the machine and compression on both cylinders is low, I pull the head and look , it's an...

It sounds to me like your popoff is too high, popoff controls the midrange circuit which is where you are having issues , you left out some important details here , are you running 38 carbs or the 1200 44 carbs setup , are you running the stock air box or individual air filters , are the choke...