1996 GTX - not gettting fuel

[tj21]

Couple years ago, had the Seadoo on the lake, after it sat for several years. It ran good. Next trip, I filled up the tank with gas, took it out again, and it kept stalling on me, and would not accelerate well at all.

I then took out the carbs and cleaned them. I also replaced all the fuel lines with NAPA black lines. Siphened the gas tanks.

Put it back together, and it would not start. It would start before this project, so I must have messed something up, but got tired of working on it, so it sat until now.

I took carbs out again, dissmanteled, cleaned, reassembled, and reinstalled. Same problem. I push start button, and it sounds fine, but never starts up, as if its out of gas (I just put 3 gallons in). I look at the fuel filter, and its dry.

So I'm not getting any fuel to the engine.

My only guess is that I crossed fuel lines, even though I thought I was being careful. I looked at the diagrams, and everything looks fine, except I'm not sure how to tell which fuel line goes into which of the 4 ports of the baffle.

Is there a way to tell if I messed up at the baffle?

 

[onebadcav00]

if you look real close where the lines go on the tank they are marked. you have to look real close. spray them off with brake clean and wipe dry and you will see them. chances are you have the vent and the feed line crossed

 

[- BiRkS_]

You may just need to pull fuel from the tank through the new lines. Easiest way is to pull the choke out all the way and crank in intervals no longer than 10 seconds. Other way is to remove the airbox/flame arrester and pour a teaspoon of premix down each carb. Pull the choke out full, and crank. You may have to repeat 2-3 times before the whole system is primed. After that, you should be good to go.:cheers:

 

[roneagan@cfl.rr.com]

Two things to check.. First bypass the fuel select switch, they tend to clog.. Next thing is the fuel pick up itself. The piece where the houses attach comes out of the tank. At the very bottom there is a screen, it can be clogged so fuel cannot pass. If you cant clean it, just cut it out, there are two other filters in line so it won't hurt to remove it...

 

[tj21]

Thanks for all the advice. I did what each of you suggested, and found the problem to be something else. The plastic check valves were stuck inside the fuel pump. I pushed those out, to release them, and it worked great.