Amanda Herrick
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Got the grate off and dis - lodged the rock! Hope it didn't cause too much damage.
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Sucked up rocks
- Thread starter Amanda Herrick
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Did you take any pictures?
Zarrella
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Hopefully that is the end of that and no further damage was done!
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Stick your camera phone up there and snap a few shots, might be able to help you see the damage.
PapaBear
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I ran my boat in the St Johns on Monday. I sucked up some big lily pads. Had to do some 360s a drift...whatever was up in there finally past. ..took a bit in order to get good water flow through the thing.
PapaBear
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Curious to how this thread turned out...any further issues?
Any part pics OF damage
Any part pics OF damage
Robert Sands
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I sucked up a big tubing rope once and spent an hour under the boat fishing it out. I got lucky, I didn't see any damage to the boot and the boat worked great for the rest of the year until we put it away. Out of curiosity, how fast was this damage caused and what material was the rope made from?
I'm asking because when I had sucked my rope up we didn't know what happened, we had sucked the middle portion up and it still looked like there was a ton of rope left out there behind the boat. I tried hard for a while to get the boat going (being new to jet boats) I didn't realize what was happening when the engine kept turning itself off. I guess the friction on the impeller and drive shaft from the rope causes it to shut off to avoid damage? When I fished the rope out the portion of the rope that was snug up against the boot was melted, but no visible damage to the boat. At the time my tow rope was 1" diameter Airhead braided nylon, which I feel helped it get mostly lodged up against the drive shaft sleeve instead of sucked down into the impeller area. Maybe your docking line was 3/4" or 3/8" and polyester? it might have really wound up against your boot and chaffed the heck out of it. How long was it before you knew you sucked the rope up, basically how fast was this damage caused?
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The boat had turned off, unaware of what had happened. Turned it back on for about 5 minutes until I realized I had ran over a docking line that someone had left by the dock.
Robert Sands
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I'm surprised it didn't turn back off again. The rope probably shimmied down to the boot and didn't restrict water flow enough for the thing to kick off. Instead it just tore up your boot. That sucks, I'm kind of worried one day I'll be cruising and run over a floating tow rope and need a tow back. There's so much power in that vacuum. In my marina slip near August-Sept we get big water plants that are tough and durable like cordage, if I run over one it will rip it to pieces even uprooting a few. Then I've got to dive in and fish it out. Sure which there was a gate or something on that metal inlet grate.
DrivenPhoto
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I agree, the shaft guard does nothing... theres about two inches of the actually shaft exposed at impeller. I did it twice in two days... the first was not watching or caring thinking this "feature" was a benefit. Second was my woman getting frustrated and me taking over but nobody had the rope. Do yourself a favor, get a long knife(machete) that can reach the end of the shaft... you can start cutting the rope... its tedious but better than 4k in repairs. I took a Maps gas torch and heated up the machete and cut right through the nylon rope like butter. Pulled out all the bits I could... Cranked the motor up and it shot out the rest. Good to go!! TWICE! 
