Cleaned carbs, how do I get fuel back in the lines?

[darrylgood]

97 seadoo xp

Just replaced some lines and cleaned the carbs, but I believe the lines are dry. How do I get gas back in my lines?

Thanks guys

 

[undies1993]

The fuel should flow back through them. But you can take the plugs out and ground them. Then crank the engine for a few seconds. Then put the plugs back on and you should be getting fuel.

 

[BMANN06]

What I do is pull the plugs out, leave airbox/flame arresstor off, put throttle to wide open and crank starter. I do this in 4 second increments (to not get starter to hot) let it cool and keep cranking, it helps if you can have someone press starter, the you could look into carbs and see gas through jets after cranking for a bit.

Another trick I have used is; get an old windex bottle fill it with a gas oil mix. Leave plugs in, airbox off, spray your gas/oil mix into carbs and hit starter you'll get the enging running. It will stall, just keep spraying until you get your fuel system primed. Be sure to kill motors once they're primed, as in don't leave them running to long without the hose hooked up. BRP techs tell me a 5 count is absolute max.

Hope this helps.

hope this helps.

 

[darrylgood]

Thanks

Great tips

 

[Chester]

Just pull the choke and crank it. The fuel pump will draw the fuel in.

Chester

 

[darrylgood]

I have tried everything here. The spray bottle trick works great, and as long as I keep spraying the mixture into the carbs, of course it runs. Why am I not getting fuel? Is there any tests I can do?

Thanks!!!!

 

[darrylgood]

Could it be bad gas? The gas has been sitting in there for almost 6 months, but has had fuel stabilizer in it

 

[Dr Honda]

The carb should draw fuel in about 4 or 5 seconds with the choke. Either your pump, isn't pumping, or you have an air leak in the feed hose. No real tests, just check over things.

Let me ask you this... Was it working before you rebuilt the carbs? If it was... then you probably hooked something up wrong... or messed up the pop-off pressure, or the pump.

 

[darrylgood]

Hmmm yes then It should have been running by now.

I re built the top end, cylinders/pistons and cleaned the carbs while I did this.

It was running last summer and then started to bog down on me. I then found out that there was bad deto in the cylinders and had to re-build. Hope that gives you some insight.

 

[darrylgood]

to test my fuel pump, could I empty the fuel filter and see if it gets re-filled, actually now that I think of it, it was empty because I cleaned it, it now is full.

 

[darrylgood]

FINALLY

after pumping the choke and full gas for the 4000th time it caught. Thanks so much for your help guys

 

[GatorGreg]

You could always remove the fuel supply line from the carb. Suck on it like a Georgia Credit Card. Reinstall after you spit and gag on the fuel:ack:. The remove the return line at the carb and see if its pump throught the carb when cranking.