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I also got the gas tank put in today. It's a pretty snug fit. Even with modifying the pipe stinger, it still touches the tank. NOT pushing hard into the tank but touching/rubbing it. I found a piece of thick rubber and wedged it in there for 'just in case'.

I scoured the boneyard today and could NOT find a choke cable that would work with this setup. This 550 had a primer and the 750ss donor also had a primer........I guess the primer stays. I really didn't like the chintzy plastic tee that fed the primer but I have a little drawer full of brass. I...

The customized oem bracket now fits (and works) like a charm!

The WSM wear rings fit the plastic pumps perfectly. Usually a bit snug on the brass pumps to the point you have to leave the four 17mm nuts loose and splash water into the pump then fire it off and splash some more water so the impeller "shaves" it's own clearance. I used to use a lot of wear...

Just so you know......a Seadoo 951 comes stock with 46mm I body Mikuni's and only one pulse line feeding ONE fuel pump that supplies enough fuel even for a decently modded engine. And that fuel pump is the same thing found on a 38mm carb.

I had 2 skis to water test this evening but I still had time to knock out the throttle bracket. In original form the single carb bracket puts the cable down right on top of the exhaust hose.......not a problem for earlier front side exhaust machines. Even with the stock hose holders bent as far...

Oh.......I'm getting to that point. I've been busting my butt to completely pay off ALL debt. Next year I will be debt free! After that who knows, maybe pick-n-choose, maybe just buy and flip, I might even go help my buddy restore classic cars. I'm just trying to get all loose ends caught up so...

Today I put a new oil switch on a 2002 Seadoo 4tec, checked out electrical on a '96 Seadoo GSX, rebuilt a set of carbs on a '95 Seadoo GTX and pulled and cleaned a set on a '94 GTX. And then had to water test one AFTER we closed. Yep, working after work as usual.

You called it! I was thinking the same thing as well.

The way the throttle is made, there IS a slight step at the lever that MIGHT clear on a set of straight bars, which they don't mention at all on the website. The moving fulcrum of the lever itself is out flush on the same plane as the surrounding mounted part. Now, I don't claim to have any...

Sound like motocross bars.

Hang with me guys, we're getting close now! Just need to rubuild carb and figure out throttle and choke cables and install the fuel tank!

.......and there it is! Finished up and tucked away. Notice how NOTHING is hanging around in the way of battery placement/removal. That's the bilge pump fuse in that right rear corner.

......ON to the wiring! This can go pretty quick if you want your bilge to look like a spaghetti dinner. OR, you can spend the extra time using oem style connectors and solder shrink splices and sleeving everything so it's nice and neat. That's the way I prefer doing things. I even found a nice...

Of course after that I started mounting up switches and throttle lever..........AAaaand then the next issue. The really nice anodized Blowsion finger throttle starts binding up as soon as it's bolted to the bars. NICE! I guess pretty much nobody cares about r&d or qc at all anymore. You can see...

Well it was pretty nice today on my "day off" so I put another 6 hours into this project. Since I got the chin pad done I could actually mount the bars! And then run throttle and 3 pairs of wires up that tiny chase WITH a big fat steering cable in the way! What I do is run a piece of coated...

Woo-hoo!!........Sounds like a nice grab......where's our pics?

I keep one of the cheapo blue ones like that in stock for the old aluminum pumps. They seem to be just right for those.

I used JB Marine Weld to rinstall the ball stud. I rode the ski a couple hours one evening last week after work and the steering is still working after the 'fix'. I also let my buddies 21yo son have a go.........LOL!! He had A LOT of trouble getting balanced and took off, then took a good spill...

I've used the brake fluid trick for probably 25 years or more. Ever have those dirtbike or atv intake boots that are so hard you can't get 'em back on the airbox or carb? Soak 'em in brake fluid!