That hood looks 1000 times better
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1997 XP & SPX “restoration”
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Not much of an update. I built dollies, moved the skis off, and put the trailer in the backyard. Now I'll be able to clean up the trailer, replace the bunks, and clean the SPX while the XP waits on parts.
Trailer could use a coat of paint too...
Trailer could use a coat of paint too...
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Trailer is stripped. Decals are gone. Need to hit the rust areas with a wire wheel and sand the trailer frame.
Nice, I'm also in the process of restoring my two 96 SPXs. One the engine blew not long after I did the initial restoration and the other was just awfully dirty. I've done it twice so far and it's a fairly straight-forward simple process. It seems complex at first but there's not that many components in the long run. Get the seadoo manuals, they will be your friends during this.
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Should I be worried about the gelcoat cracking where the pads were?
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Are you worried about the gel oat cracking where the rivets held the traction mats on? Looks like the gel oat has already started to crack. I would notch those cracks out into a V and gelcoat them. Also just curious, the holes look very big where the rivets were, did you drill the heads off the rivets and then tap them down just below the gelcoat? How did you take the pads/rivets off?
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Drilled the head off, pulled the mat off and the remainder fell out.
Bigger problem now is the electrical box started smoking when I hooked up the battery. That was supposed to have been fixed...
