RESTO 1995 XP800 Resto Project: Sugar and Spice

[racerxxx]

Well down to 3 bars of gas left on the first tank. All went well so far. Mag rave is juicing some oil so I gotta look into that. Everything is brand new OEM so not sure what's going on. But my minty white paint had black oil all over it, not happy about that. Carbs feel really crisp, can't wait to introduce the back of the thumb throttle to the hand grip. Gotta live factory settings, from the bench to the ski, bumped the idle on the trailer----DONE! But I gotta say, Iowa has a beautiful water way. I was on Coralville reservoir today. 20 minute ride from my hotel if that.

 

[1of500]

Did you use the red or green on the raves I've had better luck with the red

 

[racerxxx]

Green. I have reds at home. Investigating tonight.

 

[1of500]

Seems like I used some aircraft cable twisted in leau the oem springs after mine leaked from the bellow can't really remember which motor it was though

 

[1of500]

It was on the end that attaches to the housing (the smaller side)

 

[racerxxx]

Just pulled it apart. It possibly was too much assembly grease, maybe. Almost looks like a gasket leak, so I'll go out again and check it. I think I brought an extra gasket. There just want a crazy amount of oil either inside the bellows.

 

[racerxxx]

So last week she stranded me, got towed in at 8pm. No spark. Last weekend fired right up. Went to the reservoir, started. Backed into the water fired right up in the water on the trailer. Revved it up a few times and it died. Then it was a no start. So, I'll have dig into that. Found the rave leak, screws loosened up. So, probably going to winterize it tomorrow. I'll investigate the no spark over the winter.

 

[Lothsahn]

racerxxx, your boat is so gorgeous. It's my dream to one day own a fully restored XP800 like that.