lithium2g
Active Member
I honestly try to avoid making these "i need help" threads. 2nd one in a week because im so bad at this.
New owner of a Seadoo speedster 1998. Boat was previously neglected for 18 months sitting in the elements. I come along and bought it cheap because I was confident in the local service department fixing stuff. Spent $1200usd getting a variety of important things replaced/fixed/realigned - all of which is outside of my skill set. The seadoo service centre will no longer touch this boat because the cost/effort to fix it is not worth it for them. Fair enough, but sucks for me. These boats were not commercially sold here in Australia and there is only a handful of them imported. Im hoping to get 4-6 years out of this boat
I have 2 concerns:
The fuel gauge does not work and so the fuel pump light flashes non stop despite being full.
And the boat is suppose to beep at me for different things such as overheating, not in neurtal when trying to start etc. This does not happen at all. No beeps at any time.
All other electrical functions appear to be working. I dont know if this is a problem but I would like to know if my engine is overheating - 8 beeps right? Any trouble shooting I can do?
Since being serviced, the boat has been on water twice for a total of 40 mins. It is awesome. I didn't really encounter any significant issues while out. But when I come back home to flush the engines, i noticed a fair bit of water coming out of the exhausts. Is this normal? Both the exhaust gaskets were sikaflexd because they had deteriorated badly.
Could there be water getting in somewhere it shouldnt? In addition, after 20 minutes running on the water, i chekced the engine bay and there was a small amount of water in the bottom. Not sure if it is normal. It didn't appear to effect anything.
Thanks for reading my ramblings.
New owner of a Seadoo speedster 1998. Boat was previously neglected for 18 months sitting in the elements. I come along and bought it cheap because I was confident in the local service department fixing stuff. Spent $1200usd getting a variety of important things replaced/fixed/realigned - all of which is outside of my skill set. The seadoo service centre will no longer touch this boat because the cost/effort to fix it is not worth it for them. Fair enough, but sucks for me. These boats were not commercially sold here in Australia and there is only a handful of them imported. Im hoping to get 4-6 years out of this boat
I have 2 concerns:
The fuel gauge does not work and so the fuel pump light flashes non stop despite being full.
And the boat is suppose to beep at me for different things such as overheating, not in neurtal when trying to start etc. This does not happen at all. No beeps at any time.
All other electrical functions appear to be working. I dont know if this is a problem but I would like to know if my engine is overheating - 8 beeps right? Any trouble shooting I can do?
Since being serviced, the boat has been on water twice for a total of 40 mins. It is awesome. I didn't really encounter any significant issues while out. But when I come back home to flush the engines, i noticed a fair bit of water coming out of the exhausts. Is this normal? Both the exhaust gaskets were sikaflexd because they had deteriorated badly.
Could there be water getting in somewhere it shouldnt? In addition, after 20 minutes running on the water, i chekced the engine bay and there was a small amount of water in the bottom. Not sure if it is normal. It didn't appear to effect anything.
Thanks for reading my ramblings.