chadetroit
Get Wet
- Location
- Bay Area, CA
Hey all new hear and trying to resurrect my youth. I have a 95 FX1 that I bought about 6 years back. I ran it stock for 2 years then life got real busy and the ski sat for 4 years. Before getting back on the water I put a Coffman Sizzler pipe on.
Also installed a bilge and have the hot lead running to the fuse in the CDI box.
I got it all hooked up and noticed I neglected to put a barb into the new Coffman Exhaust manifold so I had nowhere to run my water into the ski. So new barb in and we are all good to go again. Ski fired up and reved just fine on land and with flush kit hooked up to it. Pisser is pissing and even the little water tube coming from the stock head on the left was pissing water (now blocked off, is this correct?)
So I dropped it in the water today and I couldn't get past about 5mph would rev up to a certain rpm then it was like it was toped out and just kept bouncing off the low rev. Took my hood off and tried to run it and it came alive for one quick 50yd run. So I thought cool, put the hood back on and then same issue. Could not even get up on plane. Head also seemed to be running hot. Pipe Temp seems fine. Tried running with hood off again and no luck, tried messing with the carb setting a little each way and it seemed to have no affect on the performance getting past that rev point.
I'm not sure if I should clean/rebuild the carb after sitting for so many years. If the bilge did something. If there is an overheat sensor that trips. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. I know there are a lot of smart minds that are very in tune with the skis so hopefully my description helps.
Also installed a bilge and have the hot lead running to the fuse in the CDI box.
I got it all hooked up and noticed I neglected to put a barb into the new Coffman Exhaust manifold so I had nowhere to run my water into the ski. So new barb in and we are all good to go again. Ski fired up and reved just fine on land and with flush kit hooked up to it. Pisser is pissing and even the little water tube coming from the stock head on the left was pissing water (now blocked off, is this correct?)
So I dropped it in the water today and I couldn't get past about 5mph would rev up to a certain rpm then it was like it was toped out and just kept bouncing off the low rev. Took my hood off and tried to run it and it came alive for one quick 50yd run. So I thought cool, put the hood back on and then same issue. Could not even get up on plane. Head also seemed to be running hot. Pipe Temp seems fine. Tried running with hood off again and no luck, tried messing with the carb setting a little each way and it seemed to have no affect on the performance getting past that rev point.
I'm not sure if I should clean/rebuild the carb after sitting for so many years. If the bilge did something. If there is an overheat sensor that trips. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. I know there are a lot of smart minds that are very in tune with the skis so hopefully my description helps.
