spudmanmike
New Member
First time poster, as the problems continue....
I've been battling problems on my 2009 RXT iS.. Background on the machine - bought after being a demo with 24 hours on it in early 2010. Been in the shop cause it burns oil in the #1 cylinder (quart per 10 hours, havn't seen a problem this season yet). Dealer can't fix it, dealer closes shop, dealers around be abandon BRP, yada yada yada. Closest dealer is now an hour away.
6 weeks ago, I replaced the impeller and wear ring at 79 hours. The OEM impeller was chewed up and the wear ring was grooved up pretty bad. I bought a Solas SRZ-CD-15/21 from Amazon, a wear ring and grease from Impros. Out with the old and in with the new in ~3 hours. Very straightforward to do.
I take the machine to Lake Norman NC for a week and ran 13 hours on it. While there, you could hear the pump cavitating while cruising at 40. HUGE difference over the bent up stock out of the hole (would never hit the rev limiter). Besides the noise, ran fine.
I bring the machine home and see that the billet impeller seal was unscrewed from the nose of the impeller. Pull the pump out and re-threadlock the seal into the impeller. While there I pulled the tailcone off to give me the flat where I could get some leverage with wrenches. The cone dumped a full load of water on me. All the grease was washed out too. The bearing looked pretty good actually with no resistance to it or unusual noise. I cleaned up the o-rings, repacked the cone with grease, greased up the bearing and reinstalled. It sat for about a week so I'm sure the threadlock was dry.
Today she went in the water for 4-5 hours (salt water). Bring her back home, same exact thing. Pop the cone off and whatever space was in the cone not filled by grease was filled with water. Got some fresh water soaking the bearing now.
Any suggestions on which seals to go after in the pump and what to do with the impeller seal? Google searching says the billet seal is bad and go with OEM. At this point if i'm messing with the forward bearing seal i'm going to do a new bearing.
Appreciate any advice, thank you! -Mike
I've been battling problems on my 2009 RXT iS.. Background on the machine - bought after being a demo with 24 hours on it in early 2010. Been in the shop cause it burns oil in the #1 cylinder (quart per 10 hours, havn't seen a problem this season yet). Dealer can't fix it, dealer closes shop, dealers around be abandon BRP, yada yada yada. Closest dealer is now an hour away.
6 weeks ago, I replaced the impeller and wear ring at 79 hours. The OEM impeller was chewed up and the wear ring was grooved up pretty bad. I bought a Solas SRZ-CD-15/21 from Amazon, a wear ring and grease from Impros. Out with the old and in with the new in ~3 hours. Very straightforward to do.
I take the machine to Lake Norman NC for a week and ran 13 hours on it. While there, you could hear the pump cavitating while cruising at 40. HUGE difference over the bent up stock out of the hole (would never hit the rev limiter). Besides the noise, ran fine.
I bring the machine home and see that the billet impeller seal was unscrewed from the nose of the impeller. Pull the pump out and re-threadlock the seal into the impeller. While there I pulled the tailcone off to give me the flat where I could get some leverage with wrenches. The cone dumped a full load of water on me. All the grease was washed out too. The bearing looked pretty good actually with no resistance to it or unusual noise. I cleaned up the o-rings, repacked the cone with grease, greased up the bearing and reinstalled. It sat for about a week so I'm sure the threadlock was dry.
Today she went in the water for 4-5 hours (salt water). Bring her back home, same exact thing. Pop the cone off and whatever space was in the cone not filled by grease was filled with water. Got some fresh water soaking the bearing now.
Any suggestions on which seals to go after in the pump and what to do with the impeller seal? Google searching says the billet seal is bad and go with OEM. At this point if i'm messing with the forward bearing seal i'm going to do a new bearing.
Appreciate any advice, thank you! -Mike
