*gasp* another noob asking for help!! 1997 seadoo gts

[purple_people_eater]

Hi all, just resently i became the proud owner of a purple 1997 gts with a rebuilt motor and jet pump for around 1000 dollars. her only problem, so i thought, was the fact the PO could not get her to produce any results when connecting the lanyard. after some reseach and help from scouting the wise advice from this site and the help of my local dealer we found out that the lanyards themselves were bad. so after 75 dollars, plus the 8 that i spent for a life jacket at the local boating supply store, i was on the local lake.

At first she ran great, put new lanyard on post, pulled choke, hit the start button and she fired right up. at this point as i pulled out of the landing and feeling great about the 1000 dollar gamble. and for the first hour as i was riding around the cove by the landing when the beeper, which had been silent so far starts blaring. one single long unintrupted tone.

so not knowing what to do i headed back to the landing. however on the way back in after i got up on plane the beeper stops. so here is my delima: i have went though about everything. filled oil tank, put in fresh pre-mixed gas( she has a block off plate kit installed by the PO), flushed cooling system and even replaced the beeper. crancked her up in the driveway on the hose and everything was great again the new beeper was working and i was stoked that everything was fixed and running great. however about two hours later same thing.

anyway i'm sorry for the noval but i don't know whats up the operators manuel says that the long tone means over heating however i've searched on this site and followed the advise of feeling the water coming out of the back while flushing and it was "luke warm." i want as far as to pull the seat off and feel the engine componets which i could comforataly touch even when the engine is warm.( i know thats not the smartest thing to do but it costs less to fixed a burned hand than a blown engine). so i'm pretty much clueless so any help would be great. thank you and sorry again for the novel.

 

[Dr Honda]

One long solid beep is an over heat condition.


When you said "Flushed the engine"... are you talking about hooking up a hose?

What needs to be done is to remove all the hoses, and make sure they are clear.

Also... something I just ran into with a boat I'm working on... the owner had it winterized, and they pugged the outlet in the rear of the hull. This is done to retain anti-freeze in the engine. But, he was un aware of that, and overheated the engine. Check everything for a previous winterazation plug.

 

[purple_people_eater]

yes i did have it on the hose. thank you for the quick reply. i already cheacked all the coolent hoeses the other day and there were no blockages. though i did have a thought today: the PO put in a ball valve on the hose where the manuel calls for a hose pincher. would that be providing restriction and not allowing the water to flow through the cooling system correctly at idle? and then when i 'm running the motor at throttle the pump is creating enough pressure to push the water through that valve? thank you for the help.

 

[purple_people_eater]

found the problem. the end of the temp sensor was covered in in grime and such. cleaning it and a new beeper soved my problem. hope this will help someone else.