Friend turned ski over.

[mikidymac]

The arrow points to the pump. Seadoo changed suppliers of the filters years ago but as long as the arrow points to the pump you are fine. With everything ready and fresh oil in the tank there is a small 8mm bolt on the front of the oil pump that looks different than the rest. Open that screw until new oil flows out then put it back in and carefully tighten it. Be careful because they can strip. then dump a few ounces of oil down the carb. Start the ski and with it idling pull the oil pump lever full open and you will se the oil quickly filling the small lines you replaced. Once they are full stop the ski and let it cool off. IF it takes more than a few seconds turn the ski off to cool then do it a little more. Mine have filled quickly. Then check for any air bubbles in the filter and ones and you are good to go.

 

[Jeff405]

Thank you for all the help. I'm gonna get it finished up after work today and then I can be happy again.

 

[soccerdad]

:thumbsup:Great job and way to hang in there. You are already an expert. That line you found is the old battery vent line. If you have an AGM battery you dont need it.:cheers:

 

[Jeff405]

Thanks. I think I'm good now on the oil change. Funny thing happened, after I broke the bleeder bolt loose, I was undoing it by hand and it slipped out of my fingers and down it went. I pinched the line a grabbed my magnet and luckily found it. I got oil in all the lines and didn't see any bubbles. Question on the battery, I had it on my Battery Tender jr and when I went to take it off I noticed it sounded like it was bubbling. After I was done with it I pulled it from the ski to put back on the charger and noticed a few drips came out of the hose attached to the battery. Is that normal? And do I need to hook that vent tube up? The 90 degree elbow is broken that plugs in the back of the ski. Here is the battery that came with it.

 

[mikidymac]

A few drops out of the vent are normal. You have a flooded battery so you need to connect that vent hose out the ski. First you don't want acid dripping inside the ski and second the gas the batteries vent is hydrogen which is explosive.

 

[Jeff405]

The 90 degree elbow that it goes in is broke and they just had it taped to the hole. I took the elbow off and just pushed the vent hose in the hole. Seems like it will stay in place fine.

Going to the lake saturday, gonna take some tools and stuff just incase. But I think it's good to go now. Still got a few things to fix ad far as the gauges not working correctly, but I'll mess with that later once I make sure it runs good.

 

[Jeff405]

Took it out Saturday, had a little extra smoke at first but after that cleared up it was good to go. Ran great. Now I can move on to the other problems. Thank for all the help.