Midway through summer I began to notice my spark did not jump out of the water from a dead stop like usual so I installed a wear ring I bought last year just in case. It was a gravy 5 minute job to replace. Thrust was again restored . On the second ride we were playing with fire and running up a very,very shallow river when I turned around to go back sure enough I sucked up a rock at idle and popped a quarter sized hole in the wear ring. I cleaned out the rocks and the ski would take a minute at partial throttle to get back up on plane then once going would still almost go as fast as normal. So she made it back the 5 miles to the boat landing no problem.
Kind of bummed I ordered a second ring off of ebay which was the white one in the pic. What do you know first ride I was following my wife way to close near the edge of the river to go around some canoe and few into her open wake which revealed a gravel bar about 6 inches below the water line and bam the whole wear ring exploded . Luckily we were only a couple hundred yards from the boat landing and I put putted at a walking speed in.
Kind of bummed I ordered a second ring off of ebay which was the white one in the pic. What do you know first ride I was following my wife way to close near the edge of the river to go around some canoe and few into her open wake which revealed a gravel bar about 6 inches below the water line and bam the whole wear ring exploded . Luckily we were only a couple hundred yards from the boat landing and I put putted at a walking speed in.
