- In this video,
I'm gonna show you how to replace the one-way valve.
It's a check valve,
and hopefully that's gonna fix the problem we've been
having with this, not getting enough water out of
the pilot hole.
Yeah, so we checked the grate, there was no,
it wasn't plugged up there.
We checked the water filter,
that was all good.
And after a lot of research,
it took me quite a few hours of reading forums and,
and things like that.
The next thing to check is the,
it's called a one-way valve.
It's basically a check valve.
And I guess sometimes if that is not working properly,
it can cause kind of what they was talking about,
where it's hot, hot water,
but you just got a small stream and there
are some people on forums said they changed that
and it fixed it.
So hopefully on this one, that will be the fix.
Now the good thing is it's a cheap part.
I mean, 20 bucks,
19, $20, I think.
The bad thing, it's kinda hard to get to.
You can see it easy enough,
but it's kinda hard to get both hands in there to work,
'cause it's kinda down on the bottom.
So that's gonna be a little bit of a challenge.
We'll see how it works out.
But the first thing that we need to do
before we start doing that,
I looked this up in the book after I figured out
that might be the problem,
is we need to go ahead and take
a couple of these panels off
just to give us a little bit more access.
So we're gonna remove these.
Okay, so first I'm gonna take these bolts out.
There's two missing there,
I'll need to get those
before I go back on it.
I don't know if I'll find bolts that look exactly like this,
but get something close,
something that'll keep it snug up there anyway.
But yeah, that's after looking at how to place this valve,
it did say take this side panel off,
and to take this off as well.
Okay, I got this side panel off,
and I got this passenger handlebar off.
That gives me a little bit more access, not much,
it's a tight fit in there.
And what I'm gonna do
is I'm gonna try to reach down in there,
loosen those hose connections.
And a lot of times
I can just get one hand at a time in,
so it's going to be kind of a challenge.
It's kinda hard to get both hands inside of that.
And I really don't wanna cut that hose
trying to get 'em off of that valve
because it's very tight, there's not a lot of room.
So if I cut the hose,
I don't know if there's room to shorten it
and get it back together.
It's a really tight fit.
That's the only bad thing about these Jet Skis is,
it's really, everything is so small,
access is so, I'm not even gonna attempt to
try to film in that in there,
video that while I'm in there
loosening up those connections.
I don't think I can get a video camera in there anyway.
So, but anyway, that is what I'm gonna do.
I'm gonna loosen those up and attempt to remove that valve.
There's three different fittings on that connection.
So I need to loosen those all up,
slide the hose off and hopefully
get that valve outta there.
And that way I can read exactly what part number it is
and there's no confusion when I go to order it,
because it's probably gonna take a little bit to get here.
So I'm gonna go ahead and do that and I'll be right back.
Okay, so it wasn't too bad.
I was able to use a couple of extensions
to reach down in there and loosen those hose clamps.
And what I was worried about, some hoses are really,
really hard to get off
and I've had some I couldn't get off without cutting them,
but I was able with one hand to,
it took a little bit of time
just to wiggle that fitting around that valve
and finally get all three hoses off.
Now, may be kinda hard to go back on, I'm not sure.
But we did get it off,
and this is what it looks like right here.
And it's basically just a check valve.
This goes towards the front,
there's a hose that comes back here,
and it lays over like this right here.
One goes to the front and one to the side, so.
So now I wanna get that out so I can look at it real good.
This one is a HW5, has those initials on it,
so that's what I'll need to look for.
And the thing I found out about these Hondas
is they're a little bit harder to find parts for
than like a Sea-Doo.
You gotta kinda dig a little bit.
I think I did find a place,
but they had two of these
and they have different numbers.
So I wanna make sure and get this out
where I could look at it and make sure and order
the right one.
Now the good news for you, I'll be right back in a second.
But for me, this might take a week or two.
And I'm back.
So yeah, I got this in.
Usually I like going through Amazon
because I'm a Prime member and I get it real fast,
usually in a couple of days,
but actually I got this in about two days,
so I was pretty happy with the timeframe on that.
And I got this valve,
this one-way valve.
And also they had some of those
bolts that I was looking for that was missing on this.
So I went ahead and got a couple extra of those.
So that's kinda cool
I was able to find those original bolts
that looked the same, so.
Anyway, I am gonna install this and again,
can't really get the camera down on there, very tight spot,
but I'm gonna install this and I'll be back.
So I got the one-way valve replaced and I thought
I'd just take it out to the lake to give it a test,
to see if it's overheating or anything like that.
And I took it easy for a little bit
just to make sure it wasn't overheating, and it was not.
And drove it quite a bit that day,
just making sure that everything ran right.
And I did not have any problems with it.
Ran it quite a bit, didn't overheat,
but I don't have a video clip of this, I didn't get one.
But once we took it out of the water,
I went and checked it again
to see if it was coming out better out of the pilot hole,
and it still is not coming out as a heavy stream
as the other Jet Ski.
I don't know why or why that one would
not have quite as big a stream,
but it didn't overheat or anything, so it's running good.
So hopefully this lasts for a while
before we have to work on it, other than just changing oil
and spark plugs and maintenance things like that.
So I hope you enjoyed this video.
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Thanks for watching, take care,
and we'll see you in the next video.
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