Broken bolt on Exhaust - 01 GTI

[REGENER8]

I have had about 10 mins of ride time with this cursed ski !!

Ok finally finished all the work I thought this ski needed, decided to take out with wife for a test.

took it out for 5 min by myself no problems, wife jumped on went out then all of sudden no throttle and it started getting lower in the water. Me and the wife start to panic lol luckily was near the dock, limped in and removed the seat and it had about 5 inches of water in there lol...so tried to figure out where leak was and eventually had to put in water and run it to see..bing found broken bolt on top of exhaust which was allowing water in.



Does anyone know if the stud is a replaceable part ? Whats the number, where do I get it ? and if it is replaceable how the heck to you get it off, or does it come connected to the manifold

It seems you fix one thing and another is ready to break :willy_nilly:

 

[LouDoo]

Part No. 14, m8x26, SeaDoo part no. 290941013, you should be able to find it at a major auto parts store, NAPA, CarQuest.

http://fiche.seadoowarehouse.com/se...01 Sea Doo PWC GTI CYLINDER, EXHAUST MANIFOLD

Lou

 

[SabrToothSqrl]

Stainless at an auto parts store?

I suggest fastenal or a hardware store...

 

[Dave_eng]

It is a stud so will be a little hard to find unless you go to a dealer or if you are good with tools and working with stainless steel you could make one from a bolt. It takes special dies to cut threads in stainless.

What concerns me is the rust on the broken face of the stud. Maybe someone replaced it with steel at some point. Getting the broken stud out can be tricky unless you have an oxy acetylene torch to heat up the manifold before trying to turn out the stud with vice grips. If you dont have torches, remove the manifold and take it to someone. It is a simple job unless you break off the rest of the stud flush with the manifold. What you are wanting to do is to expand the cast iron manifold around the broken stud which will also break the rust. It needs to be heated quickly and locally so dont go at it with a propane torch. Removing it and doing the work away from the ski would be the safe way as you have a lot of fuel around.

Good stainless is non magnetic, cheaper stainless is magnetic. I don't recall what Seadoo uses. Try touching the three bolts you removed with a magnet. If there is no attraction then touch the broken stud. All should be the same but the rust concerns me as far as the correct stud being used before.

Dave p

 

[REGENER8]

Dave P

sorry for late response, I got laid off last Tuesday and have had other things on my mind ! If anyone knows of any IT consulting let me know.

Anyhow glad you brought up about heating, my plan WAS to heat up with propane torch and then spray some wd 40 and let it suck it up where bolt is and then try and turn it loose. I will see about taking the whole thing off but now my problem is that I couldn't find anybody in town with metric two side stud and I didn't really want to pay $9 for a single stud.

I guess I need to re evaluate and see if I can get someone in town with oxy acetylene torch to help in this matter.

Is that gasket re usable ?

Thanks all for your comments.

Tam

It is a stud so will be a little hard to find unless you go to a dealer or if you are good with tools and working with stainless steel you could make one from a bolt. It takes special dies to cut threads in stainless.

What concerns me is the rust on the broken face of the stud. Maybe someone replaced it with steel at some point. Getting the broken stud out can be tricky unless you have an oxy acetylene torch to heat up the manifold before trying to turn out the stud with vice grips. If you dont have torches, remove the manifold and take it to someone. It is a simple job unless you break off the rest of the stud flush with the manifold. What you are wanting to do is to expand the cast iron manifold around the broken stud which will also break the rust. It needs to be heated quickly and locally so dont go at it with a propane torch. Removing it and doing the work away from the ski would be the safe way as you have a lot of fuel around.

Good stainless is non magnetic, cheaper stainless is magnetic. I don't recall what Seadoo uses. Try touching the three bolts you removed with a magnet. If there is no attraction then touch the broken stud. All should be the same but the rust concerns me as far as the correct stud being used before.

Dave p