Popular Post Mitch.W Posted September 28, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted September 28, 2020 thought i might as well make a build thread for this thing to keep track of whats going on with it. popped up on trade me locally and i couldn't help myself, there was no pictures and the guy had no clue what it was or the parts it had. i went and checked it out for shits and gigs expecting it to be shit. had to hide my excitement when i was looking around and seeing more and more PJ'S parts, managed to convince the guy to withdraw the auction and sell it to me on the spot for $400 which was ideal. Story was it was sitting in his friends garage and he did some panel work to his car and got the jetski as payment. starter motor was bung so he bought a china replacement and kept jamming on the flywheel (he didn't know what was wrong) i got it home and tore it to bits gave everything a good clean up and checked the starter motor wasn't too munched. i Have a new genuine starter motor on the way which will hopefully fix the issue. so far i have found it has pj's full exhaust, intake grate, ride plate, pump nozzle, steering and straight bars, finger throttle. also has a skat-trak impeller. it has had a bunch machined off of the head as it has bigger washers to space up the head bolts. Plans are to get the rest of it cleaned and back together for summer enjoyment, trying to not strip it to bits and give it a full restore yet as i want to enjoy it. feels like it has good compression, going to tidy up the exterior paint and new hydro turf and graphics and a reproduction fuel tank and SBN38 carb after a bit of a clean This was after about 2 hours of cleaning, previous owner thought that oil went in with the flywheel which was cool too as it just went in an came straight back out the bottom of the cover and went into the hull afew of the bits in tonight after giving everything a quick clean heres the starter motor eating the flywheel 10 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Positive Ape Posted September 28, 2020 Share Posted September 28, 2020 Cool project. But I always wondered...are these things hard to ride? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kiwi808 Posted September 29, 2020 Share Posted September 29, 2020 22 hours ago, Positive Ape said: Cool project. But I always wondered...are these things hard to ride? Short answer is yes. They are really narrow, underpowered and unstable. But that’s what makes them fun when you can ride them. @Mitch.W make sure you replace the HT leads. I would even consider replacing the whole coil pack. These only need fuel and spark to work, so you really want to make sure you have good spark. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mitch.W Posted October 2, 2020 Author Share Posted October 2, 2020 On 29/09/2020 at 20:58, kiwi808 said: Short answer is yes. They are really narrow, underpowered and unstable. But that’s what makes them fun when you can ride them. @Mitch.W make sure you replace the HT leads. I would even consider replacing the whole coil pack. These only need fuel and spark to work, so you really want to make sure you have good spark. im just having heaps of fun setting up the jet unit at the moment, may take afew box's of beer to figure it out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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