Amazing how bad Salt is for the engines!

[Farny]

Saw this video while learning more about these engines. Wow look at that salt. He also does a good run through of the entire engine

 

[Judge]

No doubt salt definitely adds challenges, but I'm wondering how well the owner flushed the engine after each run and if he used Salt-Away or Salt-Off regularly as well.

 

[Farny]

No doubt salt definitely adds challenges, But I'm wondering how well the owner flushed the engine after each run and if he used Salt-Away or Salt-Off regularly as well.

Bet it wasn’t cared for properly at all

 

[Cobra Jet Steering LLC]

I only run in salt I add zinc to the pump I rinse the engines with car wash soap that has wax in it to coat the water jackets inside and no issues so far in the past 2 decades

 

[Brad_Ct]

These are pictures of the water jackets in an engine that I am in the process of replacing at the moment. I already did an acid flush on this so you can imagine how bad it was before that.

 

[adrianp89]

View attachment 196958View attachment 196960These are pictures of the water jackets in an engine that I am in the process of replacing at the moment. I already did an acid flush on this so you can imagine how bad it was before that.

Are you the original owner?

 

[Marvin willis]

Is there anything that I can run through my jet ski to really clean out the salt. It randomly over heats. Something really strong

 

[adrianp89]

Is there anything that I can run through my jet ski to really clean out the salt. It randomly over heats. Something really strong

There is a thread floating around here of a guy creating a closer loop flush system and flushing the shit of the engines for like 4 hours. He had really good results.

 

[Brad_Ct]

Are you the original owner?

I am not, bought this boat knowing it had a sorted history and already replaced the other engine because it was seized.

 

[Brad_Ct]

Is there anything that I can run through my jet ski to really clean out the salt. It randomly over heats. Something really strong

@CrankyGypsy has a write up on how to acid flush the engines.

 

[FSH 210 Sport]

Is there anything that I can run through my jet ski to really clean out the salt. It randomly over heats. Something really strong

In addition to @CrankyGypsy ‘s thread, there is a clean out procedure that salt away has in their instruction.

Here’s the heavy accumulation instruction; PDF.js viewer

Heres their instructions page; PDF.js viewer

 

[Thermobrett]

Interesting read. I only use in salt water and religiously use salt away after every outing. Haven’t notice a decrease in performance since buying the boat new. Then again, I also religiously follow the owners manual and perform all required maintenance.

 

[Brad_Ct]

I was going to try and clean out the water jackets to see if I could save this engine until I realized one of the cylinders was rusted bad. I took two good size pieces of the substance in the water jackets and put them in plastics cups, one had salt-away in it and the other CLR. I let them sit overnight, neither one was completely dissolved but the cup with salt-away was more so then the one in the CLR.