Had an idea, clean out debris

[bgruhn76]

Was this system any good or a flop? Seemed good in theory. But only for about 50% of what can actually get caught up inside.

 

[Murf'n'surf]

Was this system any good or a flop? Seemed good in theory. But only for about 50% of what can actually get caught up inside.

It worked on certain debris, like thick clumps of grass when sucked up at a slow speed. Most clogs happen at speed and the debris get wedged in deeper than the intake grate.

 

[bgruhn76]

Yeah, that's what I figured. I come from PWC world, and we just hop off and clear them. We've had to cut out rope and tie down straps too. Those things get wound so tight....become like a steel rod!

 

[Ronnie]

My sequence is to try the reverse trick first, the clean out plugs second and go swimming last. Tying one boat up to another comes with an entirely different set of potential problems and is more than I am willing to go through when I have other simpler "fixes" available to me.

 

[Ronnie]

It worked on certain debris, like thick clumps of grass when sucked up at a slow speed. Most clogs happen at speed and the debris get wedged in deeper than the intake grate.

I had a 2003 seadoo x20 challenger with a Mercury pump and engine. The intake did exactly the opposite of the one in this video. That is, the times folded in toward the shaft. Many including mine had a tine break off and size the impeller. Sometimes costing a lot to fully fix. The idea was that vegetation would be easily shredded and ejected out the back, the down side, other than potentially breaking a tine, is that the system was automatic/spring activated (not controlled by the boat owner at all) and would sometimes allow things like rocks the size of baseballs, not just soft vegetation, into the pump.