2001 Sea-Doo LRV extremely HIGH idle

[eric.cullop]

2001 Sea-Doo LRV - I have just changed all fuel lines - rebuilt carbs and body pump. I went to start the LRV and it went in to an extremely high idle. I pulled the key and it died. I adjusted the idle screws on both carbs 2 full turns counter clockwise. Fired right up and went into a low loop idle - then changed and went into extremely high idle again. I pulled the key and it died. I switched the back fuel line that has a jet in it - thinking that I may have gotten the jet in "upside down" and the fuel line flow from the jet placement was wrong! - I fired it up and it immediately went into extremely high idle - again. I pulled the key - it died. Any help would be greatly appreciated!

 

[mikidymac]

Sounds like you didn’t get the carb base gaskets on correctly and have an air leak causing the high idle.

 

[eric.cullop]

Thanks for the quick reply - while I was waiting on any possible replies, I went back for a quick triple check of all of the work - I was sure that I seated those bottom bolts good. So I looked at the carb idle adjustment screw plate AGAIN and noticed that the plate was not even touching the adjustment screw. I then double checked the placement of my throttle cable - WRONG HOLE!!! Then I noticed that the small fuel line that connects to the outside of the carbs and T's in the middle was leaking at all connections. The fuel pressure had split that line. Gotta get some thicker line (had some temp line to finish testing). After I got all that put back together, I fired it up and after about a minute it went into high idle AGAIN. I was just so confused - I looked inside at the carbs and noticed that the air silencer had vibrated loose. I checked the clip that holds it on - I bent it in the rebuild process - so I fixed the clip - adjusted the idle to what seems just right. I will replace the weak fuel line later this afternoon and hopefully be on the water by evening!!!

Cant thank you enough for your quick response to try and help a brother out!

Hope that sharing my mistakes will save someone else hours upon hours of confused misery!

Cheers,

Eric Cullop