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[evilnss]

Thanks in advanced for the help....

Issue 1: I never thought this was an issue until i started looking through the forum for issues related to the wear ring.

from a stop ill put the throttle about 80% forward and it will rev and then a second or two later it will feel like it would catch and then lift up and begin to plane, Ive read that its supposed to "jump out of the water"

Thoughts?

Issue 2: Driving around today towing, after we stopped to pull the tuber back in, when we started it back up and would go 80% throttle to get going, it wouldnt feel like it would rev as high and was EXTREMELY sluggish. so I limped it all the way back to the marinia. Looked into the back portion of impeller and it looked like gunk was in there. walked to the marina store to get a flash light, and ended up bumping into a sea doo mechanic, and he took a quick look, i just told him it looked like i sucked up something. I didnt mention anything to him about it being extremely sluggish.

He crawled under the boat (on the trailer at this point) and looked at it and said i def. sucked something up and the wear ring was toast! but the impeller looks perfect. (told me to take it to his shop and they could get to in in 3 weeks)

But I guess im really not 100% understanding what role the wear ring plays. so if that was to go bad, would that be a cause to this issue? or even issue number 1?

Thoughts?

Issue 3: I heard a humming noise, the sea doo guy looked at it and said the floater was up or open on the beilge pump. can someone explain that and a how to fix for that?

[j1g1c1]

Thanks in advanced for the help....

Issue 1: I never thought this was an issue until i started looking through the forum for issues related to the wear ring.

from a stop ill put the throttle about 80% forward and it will rev and then a second or two later it will feel like it would catch and then lift up and begin to plane, Ive read that its supposed to "jump out of the water"

Thoughts?

Issue 2: Driving around today towing, after we stopped to pull the tuber back in, when we started it back up and would go 80% throttle to get going, it wouldnt feel like it would rev as high and was EXTREMELY sluggish. so I limped it all the way back to the marinia. Looked into the back portion of impeller and it looked like gunk was in there. walked to the marina store to get a flash light, and ended up bumping into a sea doo mechanic, and he took a quick look, i just told him it looked like i sucked up something. I didnt mention anything to him about it being extremely sluggish.

He crawled under the boat (on the trailer at this point) and looked at it and said i def. sucked something up and the wear ring was toast! but the impeller looks perfect. (told me to take it to his shop and they could get to in in 3 weeks)

But I guess im really not 100% understanding what role the wear ring plays. so if that was to go bad, would that be a cause to this issue? or even issue number 1?

Thoughts?

Issue 3: I heard a humming noise, the sea doo guy looked at it and said the floater was up or open on the beilge pump. can someone explain that and a how to fix for that?

Issue 3: If the float switch is stuck up, there may be some debris holding it up. Try flushing the bilge pump and float switch with fresh water.

[evilnss]

Issue 3: If the float switch is stuck up, there may be some debris holding it up. Try flushing the bilge pump and float switch with fresh water.

Sorry about the NEWB question, but how do you flush the bilge pump?

[j1g1c1]

Sorry about the NEWB question, but how do you flush the bilge pump?

The best way is to remove it from the hull (should snap into and out of, a base attached to the hull. That said, I see mine is difficult to get at, you could just squirt it with a garden hose.

[keviseeb]

The wear ring is a sacrificial piece of nylon/delrin which surrounds the impeller. It's function is to get torn up instead of the impeller. We charge around $185.00 including parts to replace a wear ring only assuming everything else is ok, the impeller cost alone is almost twice that. The symptoms you describe are cavitation, it literally means boiling of the water. In an older unit with the plastic housing allowing cavitatation to continue may actually cause the wear ring to melt! The measurement to go by is .0013 (thirteen thousandsth) between the wearing and impeller tip. Anything more than that after a new wear ring has been installed means the impeller will need to be replaced as well. With respect to the bilge pump nothing beats the ole arm type paddle sending unit. It is reliable and easy to spot if something is wrong. A rule 500 pump is an exact replacement, a new plug will have to be added but it is the same unit for less than 1/2 the price of a factory pump.

Kevin Seeber
Kingsland Marine

Thanks in advanced for the help....

Issue 1: I never thought this was an issue until i started looking through the forum for issues related to the wear ring.

from a stop ill put the throttle about 80% forward and it will rev and then a second or two later it will feel like it would catch and then lift up and begin to plane, Ive read that its supposed to "jump out of the water"

Thoughts?

Issue 2: Driving around today towing, after we stopped to pull the tuber back in, when we started it back up and would go 80% throttle to get going, it wouldnt feel like it would rev as high and was EXTREMELY sluggish. so I limped it all the way back to the marinia. Looked into the back portion of impeller and it looked like gunk was in there. walked to the marina store to get a flash light, and ended up bumping into a sea doo mechanic, and he took a quick look, i just told him it looked like i sucked up something. I didnt mention anything to him about it being extremely sluggish.

He crawled under the boat (on the trailer at this point) and looked at it and said i def. sucked something up and the wear ring was toast! but the impeller looks perfect. (told me to take it to his shop and they could get to in in 3 weeks)

But I guess im really not 100% understanding what role the wear ring plays. so if that was to go bad, would that be a cause to this issue? or even issue number 1?

Thoughts?

Issue 3: I heard a humming noise, the sea doo guy looked at it and said the floater was up or open on the beilge pump. can someone explain that and a how to fix for that?