sucking in water

Everytime i get the ski nosing in the water and water is getting sucked in my ski it has no power each time I have installed bilge pump it doesn happen as much but still happens. Any ideas?

checked the shaft seal?

have not checked that but didnt think that would be the issue when it only happens when the whole ski goes under water.

yo steve. maybe when you go under the water the carb gets starved of air??

pretty sure she sucking in water and figured out just before that the bilge is not working properly il take her to skimd tomorrow have it propely checked out.

what kind of air filters / air box are you running?

some of the aftermarket ones are bad at letting water thru

yea korned down south had this problem too, if you have an aftermarket air filter it can let water into ur engine. stock airbox seems to work better.

see this:

http://www.dalusionfwx.co.nz/forum/viewtopic.php?t=940

sweet cheers yea thats exactly what mine is doing i got bilge pumps put in just last week but dont think they are running all the time so i will try sort that out and test it again.

Just running the standard one but think it will be the bilge pumps that are my issue.

do you have a splash guard over the coupler? or mayby steam off the pipe? have u got a pic of your engine bay?

Il have to get a camera then il get onto it. If you seen an sxr engine. Its still standard so will just be the same.

yeah stock filters best, even outer wears on aftermarket filters are crap, choke engine too much i find. And definately make sure u have a driveshaft cover as my ski didnt when i first got it and it was pain in the ass :evil:

hers's some pic's of "short ass" 's SXR...

Do you have a aftermarket pipe? If so, what?

Hmm, that answers that question..

have you tried filling engine bay about 1/4 and seeing what kiks around with hood off when running on trailer.

no holes rubbed through on that bilge pump water hose next to air box ? Ive had that happen to me before

or
I wonder if water can channel down that water out from the head hose thats touching the front of the air box? it shouldnt be touching the air box


just throwing some idears out there mate.

i did the 1/4 filling and the water doesnt really splash around at all. I went out yesterday and seems to be the right hand side of the hood letting water in could tell this when i was turning. Any ideas

Must be one hell of a leak if you need 2 500gph pumps to keep it dry!!
where are the outlets on the bilge pumps? and do you have one way valves on them because with them switched off it just runs back freely.
Sorry might be a dumb suggestion but just helpin out with ideas...

I would say the leak is coming in and going straight into the carbs cause the bilge pumps are doing there job

steve why dont you bring that ski up one after noon and we will go down to beach and look see where we can find it coming in might even give joel sometime off he can come too