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Leaking Water into Hull
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Dr Honda
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How much water is coming in? It's very likely that the water is coming in from the carbon seal... but normally, if it's leaking, you will have very noticeable cavitation.
If you don't have cavitation... then I would check to see if the little tubes for the bailing system are still in your nozzle. If one fell out... you will take on a bunch of water.
If you don't have cavitation... then I would check to see if the little tubes for the bailing system are still in your nozzle. If one fell out... you will take on a bunch of water.
On my XP, I noticed just the normal fling of water at the carbon seal, and that is normal. But I was taking on lots of water.
I finally took the seat off and in a safe open area, watched the water in the hull while driving it around.
I found that my bailers actually were not working, even though all lines were clear, etc.
Then I found that when I let off the throttle, the bailers would actually dump large amounts of water INTO the hull, just sucking it out of the river and into my hull until I came to a stop. Then when I took off, again, not sucking.
I eventually took the bailers out and plugged the lines, since I could never figure out why they weren't working (pretty simple design, yet it all looked ok, except for no worky).
I installed a small bilge pump and just nailed it every 20 minutes or so. Been fine ever since. You could install one with an automatic sensor. My VTS was dead so I hooked mine into both VTS buttons.
I finally took the seat off and in a safe open area, watched the water in the hull while driving it around.
I found that my bailers actually were not working, even though all lines were clear, etc.
Then I found that when I let off the throttle, the bailers would actually dump large amounts of water INTO the hull, just sucking it out of the river and into my hull until I came to a stop. Then when I took off, again, not sucking.
I eventually took the bailers out and plugged the lines, since I could never figure out why they weren't working (pretty simple design, yet it all looked ok, except for no worky).
I installed a small bilge pump and just nailed it every 20 minutes or so. Been fine ever since. You could install one with an automatic sensor. My VTS was dead so I hooked mine into both VTS buttons.
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