Well, we went to the lake yesterday, I was riding the 96GSX, my son was riding the 96GTI. We have a long no wake zone to get to the main lake. When we came out of the no wake zone, we both took off, I went around a bend in the lake and noticed Andrew was no longer behind me, I circled back, he was in the water, and the ski was sitting very low and the bilge pump was running full.
Since we weren't far from the dock we decided to go back and check out the problem, the ski started up and we headed back. We shut the ski off when the temp. alarm went off and towed it back to the dock. Once we shut the motor off the bilge pump, pumped the rest of the water out. When we got back to the dock we discovered the main hose from the pump to the motor had come off, probably because the mechanic forgot to tighten the hose clamp. So I cut about 1/2" off the end of the hose reinstalled the hose, took maybe 5 minutes. Then after that we had a pretty good day.
So that's why I'm firing my mechanic, but to his credit he's the same guy who had the foresight to install the bilge pump and also a new battery, without the bilge pump we would have been in deep doo-doo. BTW the mechanic is me.
Lou
Since we weren't far from the dock we decided to go back and check out the problem, the ski started up and we headed back. We shut the ski off when the temp. alarm went off and towed it back to the dock. Once we shut the motor off the bilge pump, pumped the rest of the water out. When we got back to the dock we discovered the main hose from the pump to the motor had come off, probably because the mechanic forgot to tighten the hose clamp. So I cut about 1/2" off the end of the hose reinstalled the hose, took maybe 5 minutes. Then after that we had a pretty good day.
So that's why I'm firing my mechanic, but to his credit he's the same guy who had the foresight to install the bilge pump and also a new battery, without the bilge pump we would have been in deep doo-doo. BTW the mechanic is me.
Lou