Anyone ever prep a new ski for salt water? Would love to get a list going...
Things I have thought of:
Anti-seize for any bolts going into aluminum and exposed to salt water. ex venturi bolts, etc (just snapped the head off a 2015 Spark (86 hrs) venturi bolt trying to do preventative leak test on the pump. ugh, that'll teach me!)
add grease to the drive shaft under the PTO seal boot. (just replaced the shaft/PTO seal/etc etc on a 2015 GTI 130 with 290 hrs)
take off intake grate/pump and grease the shaft
perhaps my situation is an extreme as we run them in a hyper-saline estuary. I am going to start leak testing my pumps every 100 hrs. Just had a pump seize on spark the same spark (86 hrs)
any other salt water prep or extra maintenance ideas would be great!!!
Things I have thought of:
Anti-seize for any bolts going into aluminum and exposed to salt water. ex venturi bolts, etc (just snapped the head off a 2015 Spark (86 hrs) venturi bolt trying to do preventative leak test on the pump. ugh, that'll teach me!)
add grease to the drive shaft under the PTO seal boot. (just replaced the shaft/PTO seal/etc etc on a 2015 GTI 130 with 290 hrs)
take off intake grate/pump and grease the shaft
perhaps my situation is an extreme as we run them in a hyper-saline estuary. I am going to start leak testing my pumps every 100 hrs. Just had a pump seize on spark the same spark (86 hrs)
any other salt water prep or extra maintenance ideas would be great!!!