Charlie155
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Just curious on a properly maintained machine how many hours has been reached?
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What's the most hours you've seen on a 4 Tec?
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They can easily go into the thousands of hours...
Spimothy Leary
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the highest i've seen on a gauge is 538. but CJ is correct, they can certainly run longer.
3ftDeep
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My pump failed catastrophically when my machine reached about 335 hours, and was about 6 years old. Previous rider had it in salt water, and did not maintain well. In other words, other parts will probably start failing long before the engine does, as long as it was well-maintained.
ski-d00
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I've seen 1600 but have heard of a few at 2500. However, this is not the norm. Good maintenance is required but no guarantee. I've seen motors throw rods through the side of the block and other major engine failure at 20 hours, 50 hours, 100 hours, and many more with less than 200. This also is not the norm and somewhere in between is what you should expect.
Sandman_73
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Saw 1200+ hr on an early naturally aspirated GTX a couple of years ago. My 02 only has 150hr. Really need to start using it more
Charlie155
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Good to know. The highest I seen was 500+ on a GTI 130
shucky
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Keeping in mind the 09-10 gtis and gtx i
Plus a couple others have coated drive shafts.
IDoSeaDoo
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What does this do to them?
IDoSeaDoo
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:facepalm: then why the hell coat it in the first place? I'd think that would HELP with corrosion. What model years had this issue?
ski-d00
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It is a thick rubber coating that is on the driveshaft on the outside of the hull only. It doesn't get in the engine or even inside the hull at all. The coating will tear and fall off and go through the pump. Once ripped or torn, it also holds moisture in making it rust more than without the coating. It also had a different collar system that was a left handed nut instead of a collar held on by a c-clip. All 4tec models had it in most of 09-10.
ski-d00
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Yes, that is exactly what the diagram shows. The rubber coating stops at the left handed nut collar that rests against the carbon seal, they call it a floating ring (3) I believe. Everything from the carbon seal back is outside the hull in the water except of course what goes into the impeller which is also not coated.
I've taken plenty of these apart and it takes two people to remove the nut, one person turns the drive shaft at the back with a special socket and the other holds the nut in the hull. Not a great design and the real reason seadoo did it was cost savings. They thought the coating would enable them to use a cheaper driveshaft steel that would eventually rust like crazy once the rubber coating starts coming apart. Funny, they don't mention cost saving in the bulletin.
I've taken plenty of these apart and it takes two people to remove the nut, one person turns the drive shaft at the back with a special socket and the other holds the nut in the hull. Not a great design and the real reason seadoo did it was cost savings. They thought the coating would enable them to use a cheaper driveshaft steel that would eventually rust like crazy once the rubber coating starts coming apart. Funny, they don't mention cost saving in the bulletin.
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