1997 1800 Challenger. No real movement in reverse?

[newseadoo]

My first trip on the lake in my "New to me SeaDoo" was tuff. It really had no backward motion in reverse. The second motor kept staling too. Any commentshttp://www.seadooforum.com/images/smilies/new/banghead.gif

 

[cheappc]

funny you sound like me, the first time i took my boat out i hit trees, rocks, also if you dont have reverse did you see if your reverse bucket lever is working? did you see if works?

 

[newseadoo]

Do you mean shift it into reverse and see if the bucket moves in the back? I can check that. Plus Does the engine die if you throttle forward to fast?

 

[cheappc]

Do you mean shift it into reverse and see if the bucket moves in the back??

Yup, to see if the lever releases, I learned that with my Seadoo I have to be very gentle with the forwar, neautral and reverse, "BROKE" my reverse lever by pushing it too powerful in reverse, now I gentle with it when I go into reverse, neautral, and forwardd.

Plus Does the engine die if you throttle forward to fast?

Another thing I learned in my case with my Seadoo that I have to go gently forward, its finicky if I go forward too fast on the throttle it dies on me, if I take it easy, little by little, finally it takes off and finallly planes on the water.... my 2 cents..

 

[newseadoo]

Thanks so much I kind of felt that if I did like you said it ran better. Thanks for all the input!!

 

[cheappc]

Wow! great I cant believe I finally got to help someone.

Sorry about all my misspellings but I had customers in front of me when I was writing, so I was writing real fast when I wrote the previous post.

You never answered about your reverse bucket, did it go down? did you see?