Pick-up is terrible!

[smilnex]

Hey guys,

I have a 2007 Seadoo GTi 155hp. I recently got the wear ring replaced because it was a mess. This did improve my pick-up A LOT! But yesterday being the 2nd time ive been out with the new wear ring, my pick up is back to being terrible again. When i give it full throttle from idle it just hits the rev limiter for about 7 or 8 seconds before it decides to plane.

Any ideas what the problem might be?

 

[wake155]

Could be a damaged impeller, did you do the wear ring yourself? If so how did the impeller look?

Could also be the carbon seal, how many hours are on the ski?

 

[smilnex]

I got a dealer to fit the wear ring, and my impeller was pretty terrible. Do you think a solas impeller instead of the standard seadoo one would make a difference?

The ski has done 85 hours.

 

[red2blue]

jsushchrist.....the dealer saw a shty impeller...installed a new wear ring and called it good?!

Unbelieveable...!@#$%^&*(

A new impeller and a new wear ring most likely (because the same fckd up prop tore up another ring). A bigger than oem prop ain't gonna help...it'll hurt. Can you post up pics of prop and ring?

 

[smilnex]

I only have a pic of my impeller if that helps?

 

[red2blue]

it would help to see it.

 

[KK40384]

Pics would help confirm it but it sounds like a trashed impeller.

 

[smilnex]

This is it:

 

[KK40384]

I'll be honest that's not the worst impeller I've seen. Mine looked worse. The gap between the wear ring and impeller looks a bit excessive in that pic. Can you measure it by any chance? Or take a business card and try to fit it in between and let us know what happens?

 

[Strizzo]

severe cavitation like you're seeing is most likely due to carbon seal rather than impeller/wear ring.

 

[smilnex]

Thats it when my jet unit was out, the new wear ring is installed in that photo and there is less than a millimetre space between the impeller and the wear ring

 

[KK40384]

Ok that's about right then. While that impeller is in bad shape it shouldn't cause as much cavitation as you're describing. I'd start looking into the carbon seal.

 

[smilnex]

Where abouts is the carbon seal?

 

[El Toro 33809]

It is what seals the driveshaft where it passes through the hull.

 

[superheropunk]

I am sort of in a similiar situation and have just replaced the impellor and wearing. Hoping that takes care of my issue though. Don't want to have to replace the carbon seal too...