Overall weekend was good but learned a few things. The plant life growing at Pirates Cove launch ramp is crazy!! With that being said this was my first time out and thankfully I was with someone who knew better. Launched the floater and beached it to make sure all was good water temp, oil pressure, and no leaks. Took boat out and couldn't believe all the crap growing and floating around I went out around 10:30/11:00. Idled to the river, and was surprised how bad jet boats steer when idling ok no biggy. I get to the river and rev the engine a little to get water into the exhaust, yes its over the transom Bassett's and then jumped on it-the boat's rpms flew to 5000k but we hardly moved, told to shut it down right away. Now keep in mind the engine water temp stayed around 125-130*F the whole time. I was told we sucked up shit into the grate and I had to jump in and clear it out. Ok done. Restart it up and go again boat did better but no water outa exhaust. We headed back to trailer and reloaded boat and removed inspection cover-loaded with more plant life. So after cleaning I looked around and saw about 4 waverunners beached and flipped on their sides removing the same shit. So I learned these boats are strong but not stronger than a simple weed, and running chrome headers with restricted water flow will blue them real quick-shit!! Needless to say after all said and done took it out again only to find oil coming out of the dipstick under WOT. Removed breathers to check for blowby pressure under throttle nothing, only to discover the oring is missing from cheap chrome dipstick. BTW what are you guys running for oil pressure at idle 1100 rpms? Im showing roughly 80 to me thats high I would think 60 would be more than enough I'm running 15w40 oil now and might go to a 10w30 to bring the pressure down some.
