Can you really remove the whole exhaust from a 98 gtx ltd?

[Triorieel]

Can you really remove the whole exhaust from a 98 gtx ltd without undoing the copper seal?

I have read in many sections that it's doable, but never concrete for my seadoos. I tried for a half hour to do it and couldn't. It always got hung up on something. As I will be having to go back in that area on both my seadoos again..., and I hate cleaning the seal to reapply, I was wondering if someone could confirm if it actually can be done on my model and any hints? The cleaning part takes half the time of the repair and is very tedious.


Edit: This is the three seater with 951 engine.

 

[dieselndoo]

Absolutely, but why..?

 

[Triorieel]

Because I am always a half hour or so cleaning up and scraping the sealant off that one connection at the copper seal. Would be nice to take it out in one piece that some people say they can. I just couldn't figure out how to do it. And I have to do it again....

 

[racerxxx]

Yes, the one I'm working on is fused together. I will be separating it, it's not really that hard to remove the silicone. I takes me all of about 5 minutes with a straight blade. Just cut around the square edges, the run around the bottom of the circle with the straight blade. Then if you have to go back, just hold the straight blade on edge and drag it. It's literally like 5 minutes of cleaning, I just did it on a 787 last weekend..

 

[Triorieel]

I was using a plastic blade and making it perfectly clean with no scratches and zero gasket remnance, maybe I should care less and just scrape it away and leave it up to the gasket to seal.

 

[racerxxx]

I was using a plastic blade and making it perfectly clean with no scratches and zero gasket remnance, maybe I should care less and just scrape it away and leave it up to the gasket to seal.

Plastic blade? I just thought those were for display, LOL. Scrape away my friend. Heck, I typically bead blast all my exhaust flanges ans copper seal rings.

 

[dieselndoo]

Why you removing the pipe

 

[Triorieel]

My Bendix went in one of the seadoo's. (Now I know where those parts came from that I couldn't figure out before). I ordered 2 used ones that are currently in the mail. My understanding is I need to pull the flywheel with a pulley puller etc... and there is some sort of lining up to do (I haven't looked to far into this procedure yet).

My other seadoo has the rpm flat spot (won't run between roughly 4000-5000rpm; above and below that range is good) that I am still waiting on the carb kits for(border customs kept them for almost 2 weeks). I have had people tell me the carb kit wont fix it and it probably needs new rave valves or something. So I'm getting mentally prepared to having to deal with this one as well if the carb kit really doesn't fix the flat spot.

 

[SabrToothSqrl]

On the XP I know you can, on the GTX, it's a lot harder, but I think you could try. It would save reassembly time and materials.