David Martin
Jet Boat Junkie
- Messages
- 549
- Reaction score
- 355
- Points
- 137
- Location
- Punta Gorda
- Boat Make
- Yamaha
- Year
- 2013
- Boat Model
- SX
- Boat Length
- 24
Well guy its "happened" been jet boating around 9 months and just clogged my first jet!!!!! I will also give a warning about clogs and YES going to pimp slap Yamaha engineers a little. First the clog....... the sea weed in my cannel just off Charlette Harbor these little buggers are about 8 inches long and look like a snap pea about the thickness of your finger and they flote up right you can only see the little tip and most are below the water service. I felt the forward thrust loose about 30% the starboard engine lost 200rmp and the port remained at 1600rpm. I let her go for about 30 seconds pulled her into neutral and drifted a little seeing if she would clear. (No luck) hear is the WARNING and you guys probable know it, but us Jet newbies not having a true neutral it can lead you into trouble.
As I goosed the motors with a quick blip of the throttles to clear the jets the debris jammed the gates open and will not allow you to throttle back to first Idle indent........YOU CAN SEE THE PROBLEM, stuck at idle jammed gates full open and the speed of the 3000rmp. Could not drop into neutral and move to reverse. Could have been tragic in close quarters like a busy fuel dock ect...... within a second I shut the keys off......my wife said she was glad I was driving because she said she would not have turned keys off. So their you have it the Newbie learned today do not use throttles to clear jets Period just don't do it. Shut it down and clear it out.
Sorry Yamaha I'm going to call you out for the next one put temp and oil pressure gages on these boats so a quick glance I can diagnose what going on...............as I hit the debris field and felt my boat loose forward momentum I quickly look at my rpm gages(Analog) and determined(quickly) my Starboard engine was down 200 rpm and the next quick glance was to the TEMPETURE GAGUE I INSTALLED and I watched my temp rise 30 degrees on port engine in about 30 seconds so I went from neutral to 3000rpm blip to clear(fatal mistake on my part) I own that.................but Yamaha you own the stupidly of not giving owners gages to take care of PROBLEMS long before the computers go off. I never came close to over heat / limp mode or even close to hurting and seal/gasket/rubber hose ect................... RANT OFF!
Next project OIL pressure Gauge sorry but it should have been on the dash from the start Yamaha.
As I goosed the motors with a quick blip of the throttles to clear the jets the debris jammed the gates open and will not allow you to throttle back to first Idle indent........YOU CAN SEE THE PROBLEM, stuck at idle jammed gates full open and the speed of the 3000rmp. Could not drop into neutral and move to reverse. Could have been tragic in close quarters like a busy fuel dock ect...... within a second I shut the keys off......my wife said she was glad I was driving because she said she would not have turned keys off. So their you have it the Newbie learned today do not use throttles to clear jets Period just don't do it. Shut it down and clear it out.
Sorry Yamaha I'm going to call you out for the next one put temp and oil pressure gages on these boats so a quick glance I can diagnose what going on...............as I hit the debris field and felt my boat loose forward momentum I quickly look at my rpm gages(Analog) and determined(quickly) my Starboard engine was down 200 rpm and the next quick glance was to the TEMPETURE GAGUE I INSTALLED and I watched my temp rise 30 degrees on port engine in about 30 seconds so I went from neutral to 3000rpm blip to clear(fatal mistake on my part) I own that.................but Yamaha you own the stupidly of not giving owners gages to take care of PROBLEMS long before the computers go off. I never came close to over heat / limp mode or even close to hurting and seal/gasket/rubber hose ect................... RANT OFF!
Next project OIL pressure Gauge sorry but it should have been on the dash from the start Yamaha.