I know....I already told him hes an idiot. Trust me I dont ever litter anywhere and he knows that shit pisses me off......thats why I was dumbfounded when I saw what was in my Jet. Hey speaking of Jet.....anyone know what kind I have?

Ok so I dug into my Jet this weekend. I couldnt believe what I found. First of all my friend is a drunken idiot just to put that out there. So when we were out there on the boat that day the rubber lining on my boat kept hanging off a little in some spots....I think it needed to be replaced. It was bugging my friend so he asked me if he could just pull the whole thing off because I needed a new one anyways so im like whatever I dont care. Im sure you know where this is going by now but uh yeah......never saw where he actually put the rubber but apparently he threw it in the water right under my boat. It took me 5 hours on Saturday to get out what I did. The whole rubber lining was in there wrapped around the shaft. Meanwhile the "friend" who did this was at the river again while I was sweatin my ass off fixing his mistake. Not to mention earlier that day we were chillin with some other guys who had bigger badder boats with props and they just kept talking about how my boat was a piece of shit....jokingly of course but then that happens and I had no clue at the time as to what was wrong with my boat.....so yeah of course I showed up the next day without my boat and those guys just laughed. Thats all I kept thinkin about as I was using a razor to cut through each layer of this lining. But yeah....I am at work right now and I have pictures I am going to post up tonight because I am sure you guys would like to see....and have a good Laugh. I have a problem I wanted to ask you guys about though. There is still a little bit of that rubber in there. Its too deep to get to it from the top opening so I went underneath the boat. I can see the last pieces from the bottom but I need to remove the grate to get to them. The screws are flathead screws and there are 2 of them that I just cannot get off. I tried and tried to get them off and they just wont budge. Was wondering if anyone has come accross this problem before and how you would go about getting those screws loose. I will check back a little later to see what you guys say and also to post pictures of this stupidity. Thanks for the help also. My Jet does have a hand hole cover right on top and thats how I got most of it out.

Hey GT! Thanks for the reply. I did turn the engine off and then tried it again. It was the same as before. I pulled it out that day and I did look under where the intake grate is and I didnt see anything. But the grate itself is pretty far away from the rear end of my boat.....I havent got the chance to look straight up it yet.
I was going to try that and then try to see if my Jet has a hand hole cover like mentioned before but it looks like boost said somethign about a loader bearing?? Is there something I need to know about that?

How did you get that one out crewchief?

Hey Guys! My name is Chad and I just bought a Jet Boat about a month 1/2 ago. It needed some minor things done to the engine and I took care of all of it to get the engine running real good. Only thing is I didnt touch the Jet and dont know much about them. I took the boat for a couple test runs as I was getting the engine right and once I did it was running great. Well this past weekend I took it all the way out to laughlin and the first day out something went wrong. It was running good all day and then at the end of the day I went and got some gas at the station on the water. After I was done getting gas something was different. The boat was moving but as I gave it gas it was barely going anywhere to the point where my engine was screaming and my boat was barely moving at all. I still have direction and reverse but just barely any power at all. Only thing I can think of is its got to be the Jet but I am a Noob to Jets so you guys probly know exactly whats wrong. Could you please help and point me in the right direction on where to start. Im kind of bummed out. I have been prepping all the little things on this boat and getting the engine to run real good since I bought it and it didnt even last a full day at the River =[