RESTO 98 spx restoration

[Jetskigoodies]

1 of the rave valves before and after

 

[sselzer]

What did you soak them?

 

[Jetskigoodies]

Wire wheel

 

[Minnetonka4me]

Do not sell yourself short I wouldnt take less than 3g!!! Anyone hassles you just show them this thread and show them the gazillion hours you put into it.

 

[WhiskeyD]

Great work man!! I agree with Minnetonka, this ski will pull top dollar. Its practically a new ski and will run for years if taken care of!

 

[Matt Braley]

Hell they could even abuse this one for a while and be OK. Run a little gas station tcw-3 through her, run it back to shore at .5mph with the grate stuffed full of weeds and the buzzer signing off, pull it up on a sandy shore and then fiddle fart around before they get it shut off (filling the water jackets up with sand).

Those are horrible thoughts for this beauty but that's what happens out there most of the time after you let it out of your sight.

 

[Minnetonka4me]

Exactly...I never disassemble the motor. I always do the best I can with cleaning it up, maintenance, working electronics, etc. and just let a customer know that the motor is the only thing not gone thru.

 

[Jetskigoodies]

Some more engine work.

Stator housing

Stator

New and old seal

New stator housing gasket

Housing tourqed down

New base gasket and caged wrist pin bearings

Manifold and exhaust gaskets

The jugs are not bolted down yet, we forgot the manifold bolts at home so that was it for the night. Tomorrow she should be all togethor

 

[sselzer]

Question cleaned my valve raves with a wire wheel attached to my drill a they cleaned up nice, but there's a lot of pitting is that alright?
Also why does one rave say m2 and the other say m3? Any difference?

 

[Jetskigoodies]

Some more engine work, we put the manifold back on to align the jugs, then torqued those down, we also cleaned up the rave housings and bellows and installed new orings and gaskets.

Sorry a bit blurry

Head bolts got 242 threadlocker and then torqued down

Flywheel cover, stator installed. We also added oil to the counterbalancer cavity. All that is left is to time it.

 

[Jetskigoodies]

The paint is not perfect but it didnt warrant a paint job. If we were going to keep it then maybe we may have painted it. To paint it, it would set us back another day or 2 and we still have to get to 2 gsx's and the 99 spx should be here this weekend. So we wont see anymore money out of painting just more time and money. We will be painting the head pipe. Probably black, that was sandblasted to have the plugs welded.

 

[racerxxx]

Nice job! Glad to see some non iPad pics too, I don't need to have a few in me to see these clearly.

CLEAN OUT YOUR PM'S, please.

 

[Spimothy Leary]

I can't tell you how much those pic's will be appreciate by so many !

I've had engines in vaerious states of being torn down or rebuilt and I took Zero pic's.

so on behalf of myself, and many to come,

Thank you for taking the time to provide all those detailed pic's and updates, its so rare to see so much detail.

 

[Jetskigoodies]

My new white phone didnt like me taking pics lol. I need my phone cases to come in asap. I would have taken more with the torque wrench and setting the pins on the crank, installing pistons, jugs, but I didnt want to mess up my phone.

 

[Jetskigoodies]

We timed the motor

For this the
Opening is 147
Closing 63.5


The manual and a degree wheel will help out with this.

 

[Jetskigoodies]

The next step is very important if you pulled the motor out. We aligned the motor

This is the tool that is needed.

First mount the plate to the hull using your stock nuts that held the pump on. Then insert the shaft into the opening(i know some of you are laughing away)

On the inside you will need to shim the mounts until the tip slides in without hitting the pto

 

[Jetskigoodies]

We also changed out the start sop button

First use a flat head screw driver and gently pull out the old one

Here is a picture where we pulled out the old one

New one that is $2.10 from watercraft superstore.

New one installed

Big improvement for a little cash

 

[Jetskigoodies]

Vts motor was changed at one point but looks good, there was a little bit of rust in the housing but I think that was residue from the original motor.

 

[racerxxx]

What's up with the VTS motor, I never saw one with the ignition protected sticker? It looks aftermarket? Don't forget to put the other mounting screw back in.

 

[Jetskigoodies]

I wont forget, the bracket for the bilge pump was mounted to that. I think it may be a mitsubishi window motor. I guess if you can find one of those cheaper it will work. I do not know which model or what side motor you need but the motor is identical.

 

[poissonn]

Damn, just went through the entire thread and it makes me cry when I think I paid 2700$ for a ski that doesn't look 1/3 as good as this one...but that's how much they're worth up north...anyway, from what model are these handle bar cover from?



Are they a bolt-on thing on the X4 handle bars or you need to swap the entire thing?

 

[Opformark]

So how do you replace the start stop button? Someone please Dow a "how to" thread?

 

[Jetskigoodies]

It is the easiest thing you can do to these. You can pull out the old one just by prying it up with a flathead screw driver. Then make sure the groove is cleaned out as seen in the picture above. Then you just insert the new one, a pick tool works better to remove it, you can also use it to help guide the new one back in.

 

[Opformark]

Ok, now I feel stupid and won't tell you how I replaced the one on my GSX....

 

[sselzer]

Ok, now I feel stupid and won't tell you how I replaced the one on my GSX....

Let me guess, you took the whole thing a part. LOL
Don't feel bad I didn't know it was that easy ethier.