jjsinaz
Active Member
This morning I took the ski up to the lake put it in the water and went out riding. As I continued to ride I notice it was running rough and was not idling at the right speed either. This past week, I have cleaned the RAVEs, made a slight adjustment to the HS screw on the PTO carb (was at 1/2 turn I closed it to 1/4 turn and I put a different set of spark plugs in it (not new). So I went back to the trailer and took the seats off to have a look. Didn't have any tools with me but a screw driver, so I adjusted the HS screw back to 1/2 turn and it seemed like the roughness ha cleared out. So I put the seats back on and headed out. Never made it past the no wake zone before it was running rough and stumbling again. Seemed very rich to me. So I put it back on the trailer, grumbling to myself as to why did I screw with it when it was running fairly good. Grumbled the whole way home about what a money pit the f'ing thing was yada yada yada.
So I got home put it in the garage and took the seats back off. This is when I realized that what seemed to be a bad day turned out to be one of my luckiest days. As soon as I took the seats off I could smell gas Strong. I had noticed some water in the hull when at the lake and wondered where that was coming from. Turns out it wasn't water, it was gasoline. One of the return lines had been rubbing on the corner of the PTO carb and had a hole in it. Had I kept running the ski, it could have been disastrous. Two things I take away from this 1) Whenever something does not seem right, don't keep running the ski, stop and figure out whats happening before the damage gets worse and 2) sometimes what appears at first to be a bad day, could just end up being your lucky day. It was mine today
So I got home put it in the garage and took the seats back off. This is when I realized that what seemed to be a bad day turned out to be one of my luckiest days. As soon as I took the seats off I could smell gas Strong. I had noticed some water in the hull when at the lake and wondered where that was coming from. Turns out it wasn't water, it was gasoline. One of the return lines had been rubbing on the corner of the PTO carb and had a hole in it. Had I kept running the ski, it could have been disastrous. Two things I take away from this 1) Whenever something does not seem right, don't keep running the ski, stop and figure out whats happening before the damage gets worse and 2) sometimes what appears at first to be a bad day, could just end up being your lucky day. It was mine today