- In this video I'ma show you how to start a Jet Ski
when it's not in the water,
if you need to do some work to it.
So I just bought these Jet Skis this year
and we already have some issues that we've done,
and had with 'em.
We've flipped one over, I mean just a lot
of different things and I'm gonna do video series on that
'cause if you're like me I bought these used
and really didn't know much about 'em.
First Jet Skis I ever owned, I've always had a boat,
but there's a lot of things about these that I didn't know.
You know, just for example, you know if you flip one over,
there's a certain way you gotta flip it and all that.
I'm kind of learning that as I go.
But I want to share that on YouTube
'cause I've had a problem, you know,
with the problems I've had, I've kind of struggled
finding the answers, seems like I always go back
to the same two or three videos
for every question that I have
so I'm gonna kind of go through it on this series.
Now this one's simple,
I'm just gonna show you how to start it
and there is something you gotta watch for,
you can't just hook it up, water turn the water on
and start it, and I didn't know that, you know,
and I had to actually get a owner's manual.
Now these are for the Honda,
I don't know if every Jet Ski is the same,
you know you probably gonna have to check
if you have something other than one of these Hondas.
But I'm gonna go ahead and go through the steps,
the process of how to start this.
So first, let's just talk about these Jet Skis a little bit.
These are the Honda Aquatrax, RX-12 or R-12X
and what that X means, I believe, is these are turbo,
they have a turbo in 'em.
Remove the seat you just move this lever back here,
pull up on that,
and this is what the motor looks like in 'em.
But anyway, what we're gonna do, just talk about a few
of the issues that I have with this and kind of shape.
I mean, I believe that they're 2004,
so I believe they're pretty good shape.
There is some things that are wrong with them,
for example these foot pads here,
the water gets in here and stays in there a lot.
I don't know if all Jet Skis are like that,
but it just keeps that soaked
and that glue seems to come lose
and they do have these sets that you can buy new,
where you can go all the way around the Jet Ski,
but I think what I'm gonna do, and it won't be this summer,
but I think I'm gonna Rhino Line,
or not Rhino but Bed Line this
with some sprayed-on Bed Liner,
and that way you won't have that problem of it
softening the glue up.
Course it's been scuffed up a little bit,
it's been bumped right here a little bit,
that's probably the worst one right there,
and I'm thinking I may do something with that liner,
you know to kind of come up in here.
And you can also get these, I think they sell it as a set,
these bumper strips, this has some bad things on it.
I mean, it's nothing horrible, you could live with it,
but I'd kind of like to go ahead and replace 'em
whenever I have time.
These decals, you know, they're starting to peel,
they're pretty bad.
You can see both of these lids here,
so I think this tab breaks right here and they fly off.
I'd need to get two more of those if I can find 'em.
I haven't really looked for those yet,
but they have a lid that comes down,
supposed to latch on and you can keep your stuff
dry in there.
And you can see that bumped strip is molding right here,
got a little banged up here,
just some little things like that, nothing major.
They run really good but we have had some problems
with this one, this one we really haven't.
We did have a bracket collapse
and we'll go over that in a different video
but the main thing I wanna talk about on this one
is starting it, and I know that's pretty basic,
especially if you have used these,
you probably know all about Jet Skis
and it's probably gonna be very basic
and I don't know if they're all the same,
but these you have to start and then you have to,
within less than 15 seconds, then you turn the water on
and then when you gotta turn it off,
you gotta turn the water off before you stop it
and they say if you run water up in there
before the engine's started,
you can get in air box and cause some problems.
And that's what we've had to do with this one.
We've sank it, water's got in the block,
we've had to get water out,
and I'll make a video about all that later.
But to start this, just put that in there
like you normally would to start, ooh, to start it.
Now all you need is just a water hose like this
where you cut the end off
and connect it to your garden hose,
and this just slipped right on there, so.
First thing you have to do is put that reverse bucket up
and you can see that nozzle right there that comes out
and all you do is you get this hose and you slip it over.
Just like that, and now we're gonna start it
and then we'll turn the water on.
(engine rumbles)
(water tap opening)
Now run just for a couple minutes
and it should start coming out of that pilot hole
like that right there, should have a decent stream,
which that's another problem we're having with this one,
it's not having that much water come through
and it seems like it's causing it to overheat a little bit
so we've done some things, we've checked the filter
which we'll do in a video,
but we still need to figure out why that one's
not having the right amount of water
and plus when the water comes out of the pilot hole
in this one, you know it's really hot.
This one you know, you know stays a lot cooler.
It seems like this one has more coming out of the exhaust
than this one, so anyway we'll cover that in another video.
So to go ahead and stop this and before you kill it,
you don't want the water running,
so you wanna turn the water off.
(water tap closing)
Now before you kill it, and they say to do this
even when you're getting out of the lake,
you wanna rev it up a little bit,
just to get all the water out.
(engine revs)
And then you can kill it.
So, yeah, that something as simple as that,
I would not have know if I didn't learn about it.
And like I said, I didn't buy it at a dealership,
maybe when you buy these from the dealership,
they will tell you all those things but,
no I've just kind of had to learn everything on my own.
So that my friends is how you run a Jet Ski
when you're not in the lake.
Now I know that's real basic for many of you,
I mean if you have Jet Skis, probably already know that,
and again, I don't know if that's for every make and model,
but for these Hondas, that's what they recommend doing.
If you of some other recommendations, like for a C, D,
or one of the other models, let us know, that'd be helpful.
Now we're gonna get in some more in-depth videos,
for example, this one we have flipped upside down.
It's got water all in the inch compartment,
it's got water in the engine, the oil has had water in it,
you know it's not spitting out water out of its pilot hole
like it should, so this one we've had some troubles with.
I mean it runs good,
but you know we've just had some troubles with it.
And we'll be working on this one.
And as we're going, if you have any suggestions,
recommendations, or maybe you've had the same problem
and if you've got the solution,
be sure to leave us a comment down in the comment section,
we'd be glad to hear from ya.
If you liked this video, be sure to give us a thumbs up,
subscribe to this channel.
Thanks for watching, take care,
and we'll see you in the next video.