I took off from my dock today and was gonna get in a few evening minutes of riding. Ski was running normal off the dock and let it warm up for about 60 seconds and then off riding for another couple minutes. My engine started hesitating real bad off the bottom but would clean up on top. I had made it about 1000 yards or so chasing boat wakes and then the ski went flat. It wouldn't rev up, almost like it was being choked for air. I had to limp it back home (1000 yards plus). Felt like was running on one cylinder. Pulled the plugs and both were dry as heLL! Looked crazy lean but no carb changes. A little detective snooping showed one fuel line was empty. Pulled it out from the tank found a pickup had broke off inside the tank!!! Damn! I'm running dual carbs on a Boyesen with seperate fuel pickups for each carb.
Long story short I ran the ski for a decent time frame with no fuel/oil on that cylinder. It fired and ran fine after the pickup was fixed. Would you guys expect any premature failure as a result of that run time without fuel/oil? I just replaced the top and bottom end two months ago. Do u guys run a single pickup and T it to prevent these kind of probs? I would have been dead in the water this way, but I think that would have been better than running as long as I did without oil.
Long story short I ran the ski for a decent time frame with no fuel/oil on that cylinder. It fired and ran fine after the pickup was fixed. Would you guys expect any premature failure as a result of that run time without fuel/oil? I just replaced the top and bottom end two months ago. Do u guys run a single pickup and T it to prevent these kind of probs? I would have been dead in the water this way, but I think that would have been better than running as long as I did without oil.
