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  • #16
    Originally posted by Rreemo View Post
    I'm kind of curious how bad it was flipped, b/c it's pretty common that these things get flipped over when playing around and never sustain any damage. I flipped my old Polaris a bunch of times, as did others who rode it, and I never had any issues with it at all.

    did it ingest water through the intake or perhaps run upside down and dry?
    I'm guessing they didn't hook up to the dead man tether and it ran upside down for a bit.

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    • #17
      Ask if you can borrow it for a bit and take it to a different repair shop and get an estimate and see what they say is wrong with it.

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      • #18
        Originally posted by QIK46 View Post
        U you can fix it easy I would look for something a lil more powerful though
        Expand on the "easy"
        2012 GT500

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        • #19
          Originally posted by Cobraman View Post
          Expand on the "easy"
          It's probably just out of gas!

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          • #20
            Rusted internals , yank it if it has no compression

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            • #21
              I know on our older ones if you did flip it, it had to be flipped back over a certain direction to keep the water out of the intake.

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              • #22
                Originally posted by GrayStangGT View Post
                I know on our older ones if you did flip it, it had to be flipped back over a certain direction to keep the water out of the intake.
                This. Probably hydro locked the motor and bent some rods.
                Whos your Daddy?

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                • #23
                  Ya, I'm going to pass. If anyone else is interested, pm me and I'll get you in touch.
                  2012 GT500

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                  • #24
                    Originally posted by Cobraman View Post
                    Expand on the "easy"
                    It won't be if you don't have the time. That's a big boat with a not so great engine. You could pull the engine and replace it with a manual and some time. The only way I would mess with that was if it was really cheap to make it worth it

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                    • #25
                      Meh, I'd pass... PWC are not fun to work on.

                      If you like bending yourself into a pretzel, scraping all the skin off your elbows, and losing the same nut or bolt in the bottom of the hull 10x times... There will be some money to be made if the electronics are still good. If you just like to tinker.

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                      • #26
                        A motor for that boat with core is about 2grand for anybody interested in it.

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                        • #27
                          Or it could be electrical
                          "If I asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses." - Henry Ford

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                          • #28
                            Worth around $500
                            2015 F250 Platinum

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                            • #29
                              Working on PWC's is a pain in the ass (super tiny work space, sore back, and torn up arms). After owning 3 PWC's and getting burned on two I would offer no more than $500 as someone stated above. That way if it's to be a costly repair you can simply relist it for the $500 and be done with it.

                              Unless you can get it fired up easily on site, I would personally pass.

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                              • #30
                                I agree phaux inboard outboards are a bitch too. I'm finishing my first bellows job and it was a hassle. Learned a lot though

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