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When you fog the engine through the intake, do you remove the spark arrestor? I worry that the fog will restrict air flow. I usually remove the spark plugs and fog that way. I know I"m not getting to the crank though. Hook a brother up. :D

How about starting another thread?..lets stay focused on one at a time, asking questions what 'you' should do detracts from the OP.
 
When you fog the engine through the intake, do you remove the spark arrestor? I worry that the fog will restrict air flow. I usually remove the spark plugs and fog that way. I know I"m not getting to the crank though. Hook a brother up. :D
I think that is a good question and what i was working my way towards. So, what is the best, easiest way to fog the engine? 2000 GTX RFI
 
When we pulled it out of the water....I didn't fog it. So this time I will pull the plugs and use some Stabil I have on hand in the cylinders.

The PO had a bottle of Bombardier storage oil he showed me to get, but kept it so Stabil is what I got.
 
When you fog the engine through the intake, do you remove the spark arrestor? I worry that the fog will restrict air flow. I usually remove the spark plugs and fog that way. I know I"m not getting to the crank though. Hook a brother up. :D

I believe any fog is better than no fog. If there's a fogging port on the airbox you could give it a shot.

In the case of an e-tec, they have a self-fogging mode.

Currently, when I do a quick fog my 951 carbed motor I remove the plugs and squirt some TCW-3 in the cylinders.
 
Is this the fogging port? Also i did find one grey line which is on the front of the motor and quickly loops underneath and disappears. Don't believe this is fuel? Should it be replaced?
 

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Yes, that rubber plug is for fogging.

No you don’t need to replace that line. None of the injected skis used the Tempo line that’s bad.
 
Awesome, thanks Mikidymac. Also thanks Sportster-2001-951C-Stock. I did shoot some stabil in the cylinders. But now that I know that plug is for fogging do you think it would be a good idea to fire it up and re fog everything? I do have a fitting that came with the machine which I believe is for running with a garden hose but not sure how to do it.

I did read in my earlier attempts to find information that the hose should not be run with the machine off?
Also read it is ok to run the machine for 15-30 seconds without water? I find this one hard to belive. Big no no with outboards and outdrives which i am more familiar with.
 
I've never tried using fuel stabilizer as a corrosion inhibitor or lubricant but if you think the stuff you have is capable of that, it's probably all you need. I use TCW-3 non-synthetic outboard oil to "fog" my Seadoo b/c I have tons of it lying around anyway, I fog everything with it and it's designed for a marine environment. Works for me just fine so far, even dry door hinges like it.

One negative about being too aggressive with fogging is plug fouling can become an issue.

Outboard and outdrives use an neoprene impeller in their fresh water cooling pump, one crank off and the impeller is torn to shreads in 1 second. Not so with a jet, the cooling water comes from a pressure tap at the stainless jet pump impeller. I can't recall the last time I connected a hose to mine, just don't overheat the exhaust system, if that's getting hot something else probably is too.

It's easy to fill/flood a jet ski exhaust system with water from a hose, this enters the cylinder ports if the engine isn't producing exhaust pressure to blow the cooling water out the exhaust. Outboards and stren drives are much lass susceptable to this as their exhaust pretty much goes straight down and out (no post nazi's, I'm not down and out, lol) as opposed to horizontally like in a jet ski
 
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There’s no reason to run it on the hose to fog. Your only fogging for a few seconds.

I think he is using the Stabil Fogging spray not the fuel stabilizer correct?
 
There’s no reason to run it on the hose to fog. Your only fogging for a few seconds.

I think he is using the Stabil Fogging spray not the fuel stabilizer correct?
Yes, stabil fogging spray.
So i can run the machine dry just to shoot some stabil in the inlet pictured above?
Like 30 second dry run?

Then remove plugs and shoot some in cylinders correct?
 
Yes, stabil brand fogging oil is good stuff. Seems like last can I had the flow was slow? Might've been another brand.

If the plugs are pretty wet with oil already (lots of smoke), may not need to add more.

We use pump up bug sprayers for fogging boats in fall.
 
So i started the motor dry with no hose attached. Ran for 5-10 seconds, shot fogging oil in “this” hole (attached) and the motor died right out. Then pulled plugs and gave each hole a shot. Could someone confirm i did it correctly?
 

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Yes you did it correctly.

An even easier way than all the mess is just to let it idle and hold the oil pump arm wide open until it starts smoking. Just make sure the cable doesn’t jump out of position.
 
I'm wondering why the motor died right out, if b/c of oil I'd say you got a good dose. I usually don't try to choke them on oil but that works.
I thought that was the intention. I probably could of kept it going. My old merc 4.3 with 4 bbl would not stall when fogging no matter how hard you tried.
 
I don't like stalling them for two reasons. 1st reason is there's so much oil it makes them hard to restart. 2nd reason is I don't want to hydrolock them. The 787 and 951, etc will probably be hard to hydrolock with oil but others maybe not so much.

If I see a plume, that's good enough for me.
 
Good to know, thanks for the advice. This is what i will do from now on.

And i should do this after every ride? Ski will live on the trailer not in the water
 
Seadoo says if you're not going to ride it within a couple days, it should be fogged.

I haven't been doing this with my 951. I've just been, blowing out the water from the exhaust b/c I'm too lazy to unload everything from the storage shelf and climb into the bilge and I'd rather not foul my plugs.

If I ever have to spend some real time down there, I hope to install a remote fogger while I'm there.
 
Seadoo says if you're not going to ride it within a couple days, it should be fogged.

I haven't been doing this with my 951. I've just been, blowing out the water from the exhaust b/c I'm too lazy to unload everything from the storage shelf and climb into the bilge and I'd rather not foul my plugs.

If I ever have to spend some real time down there, I hope to install a remote fogger while I'm there.
By blowing out the exhaust do you mean dry running it for a moment to puke out the remaining water?

Edit: typo
 
Interesting thread. Got me scheming. :) No doubt these engines are always wet so fogging is an excellent precaution. I bought some XPS Spray for the exterior of the engine. It was recommended by the local Seadoo shop. They spray it on all the engines that come into the shop. I like it..
 
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