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PsychFugue

Member Since 27 Mar 2011
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Upstate New York
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Miscellaneous - Lakes/Ocean
Year of DOO
2001
Model of DOO
Utopia 185
Engine in DOO
Mercury M² Jet Drive 240 EFI
Hours on DOO
15
Real Name
Ray Bownds
City
Utica
State or Province
NY

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In Topic: My 01 Utopia 185 just died :(

23 October 2011 - 11:08 PM

I added my info, but my thread title is "My 01 Utopia 185"

Ok, I got word back from the shop. The cause of the this issue was a blown fuse for the fuel pump that supports the Vacume Seperator? It boat had sat for 2 years so they assume some debris is in there so they will take the pump apart and clean it.

HOWEVER, with their diagnosis, they noticed that Cyl 5 had low compression, it wouldn't even register 100PSI. Their solution for this....is to replace the block with a factory Mercury block.....now this seems a bit odd to me because normally you hone or bore the cylinder get a new piston and rings and you're good to go....no?

Now, the boat sat for a few years, could it be a valve or something that just needs to work it's way back to normal
?

I told them to just fix the fuel pump and make sure the spark plugs and stuff were good and I was going to take my chances.

Thoughts?

I see no one answered your post Jerome... it's been a while I see... everytime someone gets a chance to say "you should get a new short-block" instead of re-boring the cylinders, you know it's sneaky. For some places it's all about the $$$ unfortunately.

Just like any other motor, they can be re-bored and set to go for far less money by any reputable mechanic.

In Topic: Utopia Exhaust Help

23 October 2011 - 10:43 PM

Well I call three more dealers today asking for the same part and if they know where I can get it. And the last one I called let me know that out of all the sea doo boat dealers there were only three left showing in the system. One in maine and two in Upstate New York took down both numbers and $242.00 later I have all three of them heading my way. Ill just let all you know if there is a part on your boat needing attention don't hesatate to change it because dealers have limited stock for parts for utopia and the optimax engins.

I don't want to sound like a butt-head, LOL But why does everyone think you need "genuine" Mercury/Sea Doo parts after the warranty is way out of expiration?

You can get mufflers all over online that will fit simply by looking at the size of the openings and length of the tube, even custom sounding ones. For far less $$ too, LOL

When it comes to parts for Mercury engines (i.e., Opti-Max M2, etc.), they can be found all over online for far less than genuine Mercury products. I got the "exact same" alternator for the Opti-Max for $190.00 online rather than the $590.00 for the genuine product. I also had it arrive 4 days sooner than Mercury could deliver it. If you had it under warranty, I'd understand... but just sayin... LOL

In Topic: How much fuel is this thing supposed to use?

23 October 2011 - 10:34 PM

I took out my boat for about 2-2.5 hours. Maybe 30 minutes was spent going 35 mph and the rest of the time around 5 mph. I used 25 gallons of fuel. It doesn't appear to be leaking fuel, and it seems to smoke too much after it gets warmed up. Any ideas??

That seems to be at least "twice" the fuel consumption that I get with exactly the same boat/motor. Seems to me it might need to be checked out as it could be running rich (it sounds like it with the "smoke" but you didn't really indicate you felt that) or it could just need the old software updated by a dealer, if you haven't done so already. With the year of your boat I would suspect it does.