This weekend was time for the water pressure to meet the water (analogous to "the rubber meets the road"). It was a good time!!
My jet ski now starts each time (one exception to review below), and accelerates without hesitation - very fun.
Going with an OEM rebuild kit allowed me to maintain 10 PSI for 10 minutes, which was something that reared its ugly head after first rebuilding the carb using a non-OEM kit
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Replacing the needle and the seat was most likely the solution for the flooding problem I was having the last time I test rode it. The needle bubbled prior to replacing, but not after. More conclusive is that it now starts up after sitting, instead of flooding :cheers:.
The only things not 100% are 1) that the idle hunts and will eventually cut out if left alone without a blip of gas, and 2) if I hit the gas when trying to start it then it will flood and not start for a bit (this happened more frequently when I had a passenger on the ski with me ??).
I am thinking that the carb is a bit too rich (intentionally) so I plan to adjust the low speed needle in a bit. Plugs look a bit wet too.
Presumably I am on the right track on this.
My main question is whether it is worth fine tuning the carb at this point given I am still running a bit of extra oil in the gas (2 oz added - I am at the tail end of breaking it in) or should I delay fine tuning until after running the gas/oil out and changing the plugs?