Man I tell you what this guy right here actually is a genius!!! I bought a pair of jet skis with no clue how to work on them and i put a battery in them and had nothing, no power they wouldn't turn over. After watching this guys videos now I have two running wave runners that i bought for a fraction of what I would have paid had they been sold to me as lake ready skis! Thanks for saving me thousands of dollars of mechanical repairs and sharing with me your knowledge
As a disabled person, I love Andrews videos, lot of interesting stuff happening in them and I get to see stuff I would never be able to do in real life anymore.
I started 3 hours ago with taking down the barn, then lawn tractor and small engine repair, and now having just fixed a jet ski. So enjoyable to watch.
At first I thought this guy was a joke, then he cut the diamond plate aluminum in between the legs of his jean shorts holding it down with his work boots. My hats off to ya bud glad you found the transmission fluid for the starters sake
Well. Ive lost my attention on many videos much shorter than this one. But here i am 1 hour and 10 minutes after starting, and i am not disappointed. Good video!
So my wife comes home and sees my phone sitting on the counter playing your video. She says “your watching someone pressure wash a jet ski? Why?” She just doesn’t get it!
learning new things, finding new ways to do things, how to make old new, and its a guy thing. Like looking at cloths for hours and hours and hours and hours and hours and hours on end...is a women thing. send us to a store for shirt, pants, shoes we are back within a hour...send her for the same thing...6 hours later she comes back...with 5 of everything...becasue she needed underwear to match, but each underwear was a different color, so she needed one outfit for each underwear color.
Andrew, I keep watching so many of your videos! I am 60 years old now and spent MANY of those years fixing stuff just like you do. It is fun to bring things back to life. Again, thanks for your care in video and audio. You do a great job in presenting your activities. Thanks!!
You’re a very good mechanic. Like Yogi said, It ain’t over, till it’s over...Stuff that would have been junked, you bring back to life...AND have fun doing it and then go out and have fun with it. Life’s WAY to short to not have fun. Andrew, I think you capture people’s hearts with your ZEST for life...Good for you!!!
Amen,finally we are blessed to watch this great fix it,get'er done guy like Andrew and to not hear cussing... God bless you Andrew...we can really enjoy these vids...keep'em all coming on strong...!!!
He redid the seat and trailer cleaned off all the stickers. Other than a few bolts for fixing the engine cover and a little faded fiberglass looks pretty good considering how old it is.
That was an amazing fix. He will tackle the most daunting projects, and he doesn’t give up. He finds a way to make it work. He is an inspiration for every mechanic.
1 week ago I didn't knew a thing about jet-skis, 3 days after I watched this and the other video. I bought cheap jetski from fb marketplace And ordered parts to fix it. Hopefully I can get it to run this weekend thanks for your excellent videos I have learned a lot. 👍👍👍
I like how the video covers start to finish. Too many RUclips videos of people starting projects and either stringing you out for the next or never a follow up. I found this more watchable than a movie, atleast you learn something along the way and doesn't leave you all annoyed with a rubbish ending :)
Totally agree. His videos are not only entertaining but also rewarding and well made. This guy is aparently a genius in many ways. I did cringe when he just willy nilly put the head back on. "But I dont know, just gonna tighten it with this!" Lol, charming.
I agree. Once he busted out that new carb i was ready to ride. Then he had to fix shaft bearings. new unit. ok. now he going to ride it. No he needs to fix trailer. then finally he rode it. Great hour video if you ask me.
One more comment. Your videos are the only ones on RUclips where I can sit there and watch a whole hour and not notice the time at all. I hope you keep it up👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
You can tell when a guy has "pre taken something apart" for the camera / video, Andrew legitimately has never worked on most of the things he tears apart and fixes for the first time ! so impressive.
Andrew thanks for sharing your work and passions. You have a good girl there willing to help you. They are like gold and very hard to find. I have lived my life with passion and optimism and you are definitely doing that. Keep on trucking !
I am glad to see that you now have an assistant to help out in the shop. Sometimes it is nice to have an extra set of hands when you are working on things.
Man this is some excellent root cause analysis......eliminate potential cause A, move on to B....move on to C.....very good methodical approach, I appreciate your style.
*Watching you and other guys on youtube fix shit got me motivated to fix my mustang GT 2001. replaced the fuel pump in the tank. Alternator, battery, serpentine belt and the engine got a miss right after I got it running. bought a set of 8 coil packs on ebay for $35 things runs great with 153,000 miles on it and the Aircon works great. next new break rotors and pads from ebay, then 1955 bug to get running. Thanks Andrew for getting me motivated oh and also replaced the front left wheel bearing on my honda accord*
After getting hooked on this channel, I bought a drill, repaired some broken guttering, replaced a water heater element and replaced an entire water heater. Truly inspiring how he can figure out and fix anything!
Andrew, you are amazing!! My Dad was a kawasaki dealer in the 70's and I spent a lot of time working on jet skis on and off the lake. So watching you bring this thing back to life is incredible and very satisfying. Thank you for all the great videos!
You are a dragon slayer Andrew. I admire your confidence to analyze and overcome things both small and large, and to know when your efforts aren't warranted.
Mee koo nee. One of the best small engine carbs ever made. All Andrew needs to do now is grow his own food, and he'll be the 1% that survives the apocalypse.
My question is how many of us are here watching somebody else work on their projects because we don't have the motivation to work on all the ones we've got at our own house
Say what you want, but: He's got tools-knows how to use them. He's got money-knows how to spend it. He's got 80,000 subscribers and 350,000 views in 12 days on this one video alone. Subscribers + views + all original content can generate income, regardless of whether this machine ever runs or not. If it blows up on the workbench, it just might become more popular. Now, who doesn't know what's up?
I have no idea why youtube suggested this to me but I'm glad it did. This is insane and awesome at the same time. Like half assed version of Mustie1. Love it.
I like your other fans I had no doubt you would get it going mostly with what you have, your determination and eliminating the words I CANT DO IT and I GIVE UP from your vocabulary. I have followed you for some time. You know who I am and where I live. I've watched you grow and mature both in your business career and you self. I know no one who can do what you can do. I follow many channels but no one has variety as you do plus let's not leave out your self to taught filming and editing skills. You see things through the camera normal people can't. When I see you post a video I stop what ever I'm doing and I must see or experience your work, adventures with you. I find it rare I can't hold back with out making a comment. I just can't hold it inside! Thank you THANK YOU from the heart for making your videos, sharing your life and adventures Andrew. Carlo
Great starter ski for a younger kid around 14 (im 16) i started on a 94 yamaha waverunner 3 700cc and i thought that i Owned the lake when i was on it i didnt care that people were flying past me on new ones i loved it. Now that im expeirenced and older i got a 2018 kawasaki stx 15f that has 1500cc and 160 hp and man shows ya how far you come and makes you love what got ya started. Keep fixing these old skis there a young kid out there looking for his first and these are great.
I will say one thing. That drive shaft cover isn't just a stupid cover. It keeps the coupler from spraying water all over the inside of the jet ski farther rusting and corroding things
Mr. Camarata, I have been enjoying your videos now for several months. I enjoy your videos on fixing your machinery. You are a very talented person. I am now in my mid70's and wish that I had been talented enough to try doing the things you have shown in your videos. Keep up the good work.
Hey, I know you probably won’t see this but I really want to thank you because I just got a free 1992 Yamaha wave runner III and had no clue how to fix it and I was sad because I thought I would have to scrap it, but now I know what I’m doing and hopefully I can get the pistons at least moving, this is also my first project for I am a 15 year old who is really into mechanics and I fell in live with this jet ski, wish me luck on fixing it tomorrow!
That was amazing seeing that come back from the dead I would not have tried that. You did well. 650 Runs great! Finding that carb was the ticket and finding the used shaft bearing was a good thing too.
In the military me & another grunt were standing on top of a 5000 gallon gas tanker dropping a load of fuel and checking the level of gas through the 15 inch lid on top. The level was right up there still when he took the cigar he was smoking and tapped the inch long ash off right down that hole. All I heard was a sizzle as the gas extinguished the ashes. Other times I saw him lose a stogy into the gas tank accidentally of a jeep he was putting gas into. It simply sizzle out and he reached down and got it out to throw away. We were uncertain if we were going to survive the combat coming our way and we were reckless as you can get. Not uncommon in combat by soldiers.
36:00 Starting fluid all over the place... sparking wrench in the solenoid... "this wrench is too hot" "that should be fine" What could go wrong? Just riveting to watch, lol!
I love it so much that you take your time with the videos and wait to release only complete ones, instead of making us wait in agony because parts need to be ordered.
The whole time i heard that engine struggling to turn freely, im thinking the propeller is getting hung up in its housing. Usually there's a stainless steel liner pressed into an aluminum housing and when these jetski's are run in salt water the metals corrode and it bulges out causing the propeller to bind up. Thats what i ran into with two kawasaki's i had worked on. It's best to isolate the jet drive mechanism from the motor when diagnosing either part of the watercraft. Anyway, im sure you know this already by now. Great videos!
You and the mrs., having fun! Wahoooo! Never would of dreamed that you were actually a kid at heart. I'm having fun watching the two of you enjoy life.... so much more than just work and by the grin on her face she was getting into it. Personally I really didn't think that motor was savable but once in a while I like to be wrong
If nobody's mentioned it yet check the jet drive there's a ring that will expand and almost bind your motor up is swells and locks up on the impeller I believe I've owned many of these WaveRunners in the past
Demo Rcr I was commenting on horse1066 his comment because that was kinda pessimistic, I my self am an optimist as I will always try to repair an item before throwing it away
Great work Andrew. It was a lot of hard work, but you saved some jet skis from oblivion, and you and your lady will have many awesome days of fun out on the water. Memories to last a life time !!! Keep up the awesome work !
So i picked up 3 of these a bit newer and it was so hard to find a video this detailed. Good job, very informative. I got lucky and all 3 had titles and were from the origin owner but they all need work.
mannnnnnn just looking at that brings back so many childhood memories! i always loved how they looked compared to other jet skis at the time, they were my favorite back then still pretty much are
I do not understand why so many of your subscribers post that your lady friend appears to be hot. She doesn't display any signs or symptoms of heat exhaustion or heat stroke or any other observable sign that she has a temperature issue. It appears to me that she is just having fun.
The camara work, or direction, and the editing of your videos is really artful. Getting the camera right down beside the bearing, with good light on it, and the drone shot holding the jet-ski stationary in the bottom of the frame while it ascended, then pulling left to look out at the mountains - that's slick.
Bought one of these Waverunners last year for $50- didnt want to pay for a factory CDI so I wired up a CDI from a cheap china scooter..had the strongest spark I had ever seen. The bike CDI disabled the rev-limiter so Jet-Ski revved out alot higher.
@@danieljameschamberlin1726 Not only that, he was actually using a battery powered impact, not an air impact. I doubt that battery powered impact will create enough torque to damage a spark plug. An air impact or electric impact probably would, but not that little battery powered one. Even if it would, I'm sure Andrew had the clutch drawn down so it wouldn't do any damage.
@@masterspacetime2826 So instead of spewing asinine know-it-all comments into the ether of the interwebz, let's keep our comments in line with the context of this video. I have that exact same, or at least very similar, Craftsman battery impact, and it's not going to produce enough torque to break off spark plugs. Additionally, my Snap-On air impact produces 2 - 8 times the torque my Craftsmen battery impact does. For you "professionals" those types of battery impacts may be common place, but for us regular folk, air impacts are still torque kings. However, to stay on task, that Craftsman impact does not produce enough torque to do any damage, and if you say otherwise, you're either a liar or completely ignorant. Now, if he were using that DeWalt or Kobalt electric impact he has, that would definitely be ill-advised, but that wasn't the case, now was it?
Wow - this was awesome. If you ever want to wash this at our car wash, bring it down we're in Newburgh. It's called Bubble Barn Car Wash - we'll let you use the spray bay as long as you want for free.
You just don't remember all the careless things you did way back then Doc however, Andrews learning time is now but he will learn good sense as he gets older for now he is just having fun!
That starter deserves it's own RUclips channel. What a warrior!!!
Underrated comment right here
this guy gives new meaning to never give up......
Lol he said " i have plans for this, this weekend"
I've never seen such a well edited and composed video over an hour in length. Loved every minute of it.
I freakin love this guy. There's nothing this dude can't do. I'm working my way through every one of his videos. I can't get enough.
The only thing he can't do is get me unhooked off his videos. He's another Paul Short.
david lee roth is that you?
im jack of all trade, but compare to him im at level 5 hes at level 100
I'm working my way through them too...he does know about everything mechanical...amazing guy to be so young...
We can accomplish anything if we set our mind to it. That's Andrew. He may even screw up here or there but he keeps on trying and that's outstanding.
Man I tell you what this guy right here actually is a genius!!! I bought a pair of jet skis with no clue how to work on them and i put a battery in them and had nothing, no power they wouldn't turn over. After watching this guys videos now I have two running wave runners that i bought for a fraction of what I would have paid had they been sold to me as lake ready skis! Thanks for saving me thousands of dollars of mechanical repairs and sharing with me your knowledge
Next video Andrew buys one of the crashed Boeing 737's and has it up and running in less than a day!
Omg that made me laugh 😂😂😂😂
did he check the fuel tank for leaks? He beeter carry plenty of JB weld with him
He could
I'd probably watch the dude pressure wash the whole thing. Not in a weird way.
As a disabled person, I love Andrews videos, lot of interesting stuff happening in them and I get to see stuff I would never be able to do in real life anymore.
Andrew NASA called and they need a new space shuttle and the budget is $400
Hatya05: Great/clever comment.....
That is funny
Oh, and they need two of them!
J Moudy $200 a piece?????? No problem, make sure Andrew has a good internet connection!!!!!
Hatya05 🤣🤣🤣
“The starter stopped doing stuff”.. how can anyone not love this guy. Absolute legend.
I started 3 hours ago with taking down the barn, then lawn tractor and small engine repair, and now having just fixed a jet ski. So enjoyable to watch.
At first I thought this guy was a joke, then he cut the diamond plate aluminum in between the legs of his jean shorts holding it down with his work boots. My hats off to ya bud glad you found the transmission fluid for the starters sake
IVE NEVER SEEN A MAN AFFORD LUXURY BY HIS HANDS THOROUGHLY
Well. Ive lost my attention on many videos much shorter than this one. But here i am 1 hour and 10 minutes after starting, and i am not disappointed. Good video!
So my wife comes home and sees my phone sitting on the counter playing your video. She says “your watching someone pressure wash a jet ski? Why?” She just doesn’t get it!
Roaming Gnome Hahahhahahah women don’t get it. The sacred feeling of Making old things new again
learning new things, finding new ways to do things, how to make old new, and its a guy thing. Like looking at cloths for hours and hours and hours and hours and hours and hours on end...is a women thing. send us to a store for shirt, pants, shoes we are back within a hour...send her for the same thing...6 hours later she comes back...with 5 of everything...becasue she needed underwear to match, but each underwear was a different color, so she needed one outfit for each underwear color.
Men create while women consume
Mine came in at the exact same time.. I feel the struggle buddy...
Lol, love it 👍🏼
What the hell is wrong with women?? I don't let my ol' lady nowhere near my phone, yikes!!! Great story though bro, that's hilarious!!
If you thought he would not get this running, this man got a 1952 chain saw running and cutting big logs with it.
Andrew, I keep watching so many of your videos! I am 60 years old now and spent MANY of those years fixing stuff just like you do. It is fun to bring things back to life. Again, thanks for your care in video and audio. You do a great job in presenting your activities. Thanks!!
Thanks.
You’re a very good mechanic. Like Yogi said, It ain’t over, till it’s over...Stuff that would have been junked, you bring back to life...AND have fun doing it and then go out and have fun with it. Life’s WAY to short to not have fun. Andrew, I think you capture people’s hearts with your ZEST for life...Good for you!!!
Thanks a bunch, learning to fix yourself is great. No cussing,... your calm....like a pro!
Amen,finally we are blessed to watch this great fix it,get'er done guy like Andrew and to not hear cussing... God bless you Andrew...we can really enjoy these vids...keep'em all coming on strong...!!!
This is one of the most janky and hilarious restorations I've ever seen and he got the job DONE! Love it!
Your standards must be at the lowest.
A rat machine did all he needed to do probably run for a long time
SSDeathstar Your standards aren't too high either if you call this junk skis
He redid the seat and trailer cleaned off all the stickers. Other than a few bolts for fixing the engine cover and a little faded fiberglass looks pretty good considering how old it is.
That was an amazing fix. He will tackle the most daunting projects, and he doesn’t give up. He finds a way to make it work. He is an inspiration for every mechanic.
1 week ago I didn't knew a thing about jet-skis, 3 days after I watched this and the other video. I bought cheap jetski from fb marketplace And ordered parts to fix it. Hopefully I can get it to run this weekend thanks for your excellent videos I have learned a lot. 👍👍👍
Cool, have fun with it.
I like how the video covers start to finish. Too many RUclips videos of people starting projects and either stringing you out for the next or never a follow up. I found this more watchable than a movie, atleast you learn something along the way and doesn't leave you all annoyed with a rubbish ending :)
I agree.
Yes and he shows his mistakes and fixes
I liked that too
Totally agree. His videos are not only entertaining but also rewarding and well made. This guy is aparently a genius in many ways. I did cringe when he just willy nilly put the head back on. "But I dont know, just gonna tighten it with this!" Lol, charming.
I agree. Once he busted out that new carb i was ready to ride. Then he had to fix shaft bearings. new unit. ok. now he going to ride it. No he needs to fix trailer. then finally he rode it. Great hour video if you ask me.
One more comment. Your videos are the only ones on RUclips where I can sit there and watch a whole hour and not notice the time at all. I hope you keep it up👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
Thanks
Yep. You're welcome.
2X helps.
You can tell when a guy has "pre taken something apart" for the camera / video, Andrew legitimately has never worked on most of the things he tears apart and fixes for the first time ! so impressive.
Andrew thanks for sharing your work and passions. You have a good girl there willing to help you. They are like gold and very hard to find. I have lived my life with passion and optimism and you are definitely doing that. Keep on trucking !
The camera angles inside the wave runner are incfedible. Positioning so we can see every move? You have the patience of Job.
The effort he put into a $50 jet ski is amazing! But for some reason I couldn’t look away...damm that boy can fix anything!
I am glad to see that you now have an assistant to help out in the shop. Sometimes it is nice to have an extra set of hands when you are working on things.
The world needs more can do men like this guy.
Unbelievable tenacity. This young man is an example to us all!! Bravo Andrew we appreciate you!
My favorite statement "that'll be fine"
cool guy
I was thinking the same thing😂
Jon: "What do you think Isaac?" Isaac: "It'll be fine. For testin' purposes only."
Man this is some excellent root cause analysis......eliminate potential cause A, move on to B....move on to C.....very good methodical approach, I appreciate your style.
*Watching you and other guys on youtube fix shit got me motivated to fix my mustang GT 2001. replaced the fuel pump in the tank. Alternator, battery, serpentine belt and the engine got a miss right after I got it running. bought a set of 8 coil packs on ebay for $35 things runs great with 153,000 miles on it and the Aircon works great. next new break rotors and pads from ebay, then 1955 bug to get running. Thanks Andrew for getting me motivated oh and also replaced the front left wheel bearing on my honda accord*
lol i dont even own a jetski but this is 1 of the best videos ive seen on RUclips
After getting hooked on this channel, I bought a drill, repaired some broken guttering, replaced a water heater element and replaced an entire water heater. Truly inspiring how he can figure out and fix anything!
Andrew, you are amazing!! My Dad was a kawasaki dealer in the 70's and I spent a lot of time working on jet skis on and off the lake. So watching you bring this thing back to life is incredible and very satisfying. Thank you for all the great videos!
The problem watching videos of Andrew is that i don't just watch one, i'll keep watching for a few hours while munching on chips.
Is it just me or was this video ,especially watching the work pay off in the end, pretty relaxing? I'm ready for bed now thanks 👌🏼
best hour and 10 minutes ive spent all week haha thoroughly entertaining . love the video bro
Curtis Carpenter I just realized this was an hour and I’m watching it
Heavy Andrew withdrawals going back through him watching all his old videos. Learn something new every time.😂
We desperately need Andrew to buy more Waverunners
You are a dragon slayer Andrew. I admire your confidence to analyze and overcome things both small and large, and to know when your efforts aren't warranted.
Your video really demystified 2-stroke marine engines for me. I can now try my hand at it using knowledgevfrom your video. thank you!
Mee koo nee. One of the best small engine carbs ever made.
All Andrew needs to do now is grow his own food, and he'll be the 1% that survives the apocalypse.
Nope I heard him clear as a bell min UKI . Must be new cause I never heard of it.
Mikuni is a Japanese carburetor for 2 stroke engines.
@@neilgelinas9926 is mikuni better than Andrew's minuki?
Neil gelinas they also made 4 stroke carbs, avail on Chrysler’s and Isuzu’s and others in the mid 80’s
@@wicked347tfs yes. But are they as good as minuki ?
My question is how many of us are here watching somebody else work on their projects because we don't have the motivation to work on all the ones we've got at our own house
It actually brings back memories of watching someone work on the cars, to me.
Same here, my software engineering projects are on a stall. But watching this relaxes me :D
I just don't have the skills. I break more than I fix. So I best to just sit my ass down and watch the pros...
OK, you got me. Guilty as charged. Just don't tell my wife huh ?
therapudic watching patience and persistance.
I watched this in 2018 for the first time, i had to revisit it in 2019 just to make sure that starter was still working- and sure enough!!!!
Time to revisit it for 2020 a.c nd 2021 coming up in a few months...
“That’s a little bit crazy, but it’ll be fine “ 😂😂😂😂. Super humble guy man be safe out there
Say what you want, but: He's got tools-knows how to use them. He's got money-knows how to spend it. He's got 80,000 subscribers and 350,000 views in 12 days on this one video alone. Subscribers + views + all original content can generate income, regardless of whether this machine ever runs or not. If it blows up on the workbench, it just might become more popular. Now, who doesn't know what's up?
So he makes money doing what he loves. That's what life's about, man!
I have no idea why youtube suggested this to me but I'm glad it did. This is insane and awesome at the same time. Like half assed version of Mustie1. Love it.
i thought the same thing my man.
Andrew and Mustie should both do a project together. They would dominate the RUclips world
I like your other fans I had no doubt you would get it going mostly with what you have, your determination and eliminating the words I CANT DO IT and I GIVE UP from your vocabulary. I have followed you for some time. You know who I am and where I live. I've watched you grow and mature both in your business career and you self. I know no one who can do what you can do. I follow many channels but no one has variety as you do plus let's not leave out your self to taught filming and editing skills. You see things through the camera normal people can't.
When I see you post a video I stop what ever I'm doing and I must see or experience your work, adventures with you. I find it rare I can't hold back with out making a comment. I just can't hold it inside! Thank you THANK YOU from the heart for making your videos, sharing your life and adventures Andrew. Carlo
Thanks
Great starter ski for a younger kid around 14 (im 16) i started on a 94 yamaha waverunner 3 700cc and i thought that i
Owned the lake when i was on it i didnt care that people were flying past me on new ones i loved it. Now that im expeirenced and older i got a 2018 kawasaki stx 15f that has 1500cc and 160 hp and man shows ya how far you come and makes you love what got ya started. Keep fixing these old skis there a young kid out there looking for his first and these are great.
I'm glad to see you have a devoted helper, very nice. I am proud to see not one comment out of line, very honorable.
I can’t believe I watched the whole thing. It was just so good.
RUclips algorithm say people won't watch videos over 15 minutes I don't like watching videos under 15 minutes but at least an hour
Watching you work makes me realize how little I actually know. Great video
I will say one thing. That drive shaft cover isn't just a stupid cover. It keeps the coupler from spraying water all over the inside of the jet ski farther rusting and corroding things
Mad Man Marine “further”
Mr. Camarata,
I have been enjoying your videos now for several months. I enjoy your videos on fixing your machinery. You are a very talented person. I am now in my mid70's and wish that I had been talented enough to try doing the things you have shown in your videos. Keep up the good work.
Hey, I know you probably won’t see this but I really want to thank you because I just got a free 1992 Yamaha wave runner III and had no clue how to fix it and I was sad because I thought I would have to scrap it, but now I know what I’m doing and hopefully I can get the pistons at least moving, this is also my first project for I am a 15 year old who is really into mechanics and I fell in live with this jet ski, wish me luck on fixing it tomorrow!
“The gas was on off let’s put the gas on on” this is the best
Where there’s a will there is an Andrew to get it done. Great job and video...
*sigh* "This wrench is too hot!" *picks up another wrench*
It’s amazing what knowledge a person can pick up while watching videos like this. Thanks Andrew!
No bullshit, less talk, more action, super calm, you can learn a lot by even looking, thats why i like Andrew !
That was amazing seeing that come back from the dead I would not have tried that. You did well. 650 Runs great! Finding that carb was the ticket and finding the used shaft bearing was a good thing too.
Fair play, it fought you tooth and nail but you got it running......impressed!
35:30 Wrench sparking against terminals in one hand. Can of starting fluid in the other. What could POSSIBLY go wrong. LOL Interesting video
i saw that, too. completely rednekking it.
koviack and a full tank of fuel, and an engine room full of fumes.
koviack: He has in one hand a can of starter fluid (spraying it) and in the other hand a wrench crossing terminals throwing sparks.... just sayin
In the military me & another grunt were standing on top of a 5000 gallon gas tanker dropping a load of fuel and checking the level of gas through the 15 inch lid on top. The level was right up there still when he took the cigar he was smoking and tapped the inch long ash off right down that hole. All I heard was a sizzle as the gas extinguished the ashes. Other times I saw him lose a stogy into the gas tank accidentally of a jeep he was putting gas into. It simply sizzle out and he reached down and got it out to throw away. We were uncertain if we were going to survive the combat coming our way and we were reckless as you can get. Not uncommon in combat by soldiers.
Haahahaaha
I got give it to you. You are a master. I have never watched 1 hour video on RUclips until i watched yours. Well edited and composed.
I love this ,. Rich people will never understand. You can't buy this satisfaction of Resurrecting something with your skill , interest , and hands.
Wow!! Unmatched determination! Very impressive job AC!
36:00 Starting fluid all over the place... sparking wrench in the solenoid... "this wrench is too hot" "that should be fine"
What could go wrong?
Just riveting to watch, lol!
Harrowing! So many opportunities for calamity or catastrophic failure!
“Yeah it looks like the torque specs and order are right here on the cylinder head but I don’t know...I’m just gonna tighten with this.”
I love it so much that you take your time with the videos and wait to release only complete ones, instead of making us wait in agony because parts need to be ordered.
Wow an HR and 10min video with 1.5m views is unreal. Andy's content is king and what I come to youtube for
WOW, you are one determined guy. I'm impressed.
The whole time i heard that engine struggling to turn freely, im thinking the propeller is getting hung up in its housing. Usually there's a stainless steel liner pressed into an aluminum housing and when these jetski's are run in salt water the metals corrode and it bulges out causing the propeller to bind up. Thats what i ran into with two kawasaki's i had worked on. It's best to isolate the jet drive mechanism from the motor when diagnosing either part of the watercraft. Anyway, im sure you know this already by now. Great videos!
When you say fix things, you really mean it. And it's entartained aswell! Congratz to 100k man!
Why do I like this master?so this is for the fact that he approaches the case with all rigor and discipline.And he gets real things.
You and the mrs., having fun! Wahoooo! Never would of dreamed that you were actually a kid at heart. I'm having fun watching the two of you enjoy life.... so much more than just work and by the grin on her face she was getting into it. Personally I really didn't think that motor was savable but once in a while I like to be wrong
"Let's see if we can get it running for this weekend". Love AC's can-do outlook.
If nobody's mentioned it yet check the jet drive there's a ring that will expand and almost bind your motor up is swells and locks up on the impeller I believe I've owned many of these WaveRunners in the past
Me: Sees a rusty wreck of a machine with a tree growing through the middle, pffft, that'll never run again.
Andrew: Hold my beer...
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horse1066 *
pessimist
Demo Rcr I was commenting on horse1066 his comment because that was kinda pessimistic, I my self am an optimist as I will always try to repair an item before throwing it away
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Great work Andrew. It was a lot of hard work, but you saved some jet skis from oblivion, and you and your lady will have many awesome days of fun out on the water. Memories to last a life time !!! Keep up the awesome work !
This was so well put together and informative that I couldn't stop watching.
This is what RUclips IS ALL ABOUT
One more subb from me bro!
They got the torque specs right on it.....but im just gonna use the impact driver....... 'Murica Baby
torque "recommendations"
He moves the waverunners with the lawnmower trailer, then a year later he moves a lawnmower with the waverunner trailer. Absolute madman
interesting bible section
So i picked up 3 of these a bit newer and it was so hard to find a video this detailed. Good job, very informative. I got lucky and all 3 had titles and were from the origin owner but they all need work.
Thanks. Good luck with yours.
mannnnnnn just looking at that brings back so many childhood memories! i always loved how they looked compared to other jet skis at the time, they were my favorite back then still pretty much are
Another great job my friend, totally enjoy watching you take a piece of junk and make it work. Keep 'em coming.
I do not understand why so many of your subscribers post that your lady friend appears to be hot. She doesn't display any signs or symptoms of heat exhaustion or heat stroke or any other observable sign that she has a temperature issue. It appears to me that she is just having fun.
She's helping out her fella, that's pretty hot to me. Any woman knowing and helping out is sexy. She could be watching the tv..
LoL
Dan S Brown LMFAO!!!!!
Lmao
There might be a chance here that Dan S Brown is NOT joking. If that is the case.... LOL
I can't figure out how you made this video without any cuss words
28:31 LOL
Editing perhaps ?!
NOT !
Your approach to solving problems is spot on!
The camara work, or direction, and the editing of your videos is really artful. Getting the camera right down beside the bearing, with good light on it, and the drone shot holding the jet-ski stationary in the bottom of the frame while it ascended, then pulling left to look out at the mountains - that's slick.
That was awesome! By the way that garage is heaven on Earth
Bought one of these Waverunners last year for $50- didnt want to pay for a factory CDI so I wired up a CDI from a cheap china scooter..had the strongest spark I had ever seen. The bike CDI disabled the rev-limiter so Jet-Ski revved out alot higher.
You a cousin of Andrew's by any chance
For Gods sake stop putting in spark plugs with an impact wrench.... hahaha! You work like a bull in a china shop.....Love it!!!
"That'll be fine."
@@danieljameschamberlin1726 Not only that, he was actually using a battery powered impact, not an air impact. I doubt that battery powered impact will create enough torque to damage a spark plug. An air impact or electric impact probably would, but not that little battery powered one. Even if it would, I'm sure Andrew had the clutch drawn down so it wouldn't do any damage.
It’s fine it was just a battery impact driver not an air impact wrench
@@masterspacetime2826 So instead of spewing asinine know-it-all comments into the ether of the interwebz, let's keep our comments in line with the context of this video. I have that exact same, or at least very similar, Craftsman battery impact, and it's not going to produce enough torque to break off spark plugs. Additionally, my Snap-On air impact produces 2 - 8 times the torque my Craftsmen battery impact does. For you "professionals" those types of battery impacts may be common place, but for us regular folk, air impacts are still torque kings. However, to stay on task, that Craftsman impact does not produce enough torque to do any damage, and if you say otherwise, you're either a liar or completely ignorant. Now, if he were using that DeWalt or Kobalt electric impact he has, that would definitely be ill-advised, but that wasn't the case, now was it?
Boss told me the same thing😂😂😂
proper old school mechanic style solving problems with his noodle... great work from Tasmania..
I literally can't stop watching all these amazing videos! It makes me happy :P
Wow - this was awesome. If you ever want to wash this at our car wash, bring it down we're in Newburgh. It's called Bubble Barn Car Wash - we'll let you use the spray bay as long as you want for free.
LOL LMAO !!!!!
He's got the patients of a saint... I would have smashed it up while swearing at it after about 2 minutes. 🇬🇧
Dave Holden sane
Same
doctors have patients,saints have patience
Yep! Every time I work on something I never have the right tools or everything is a fight every time or I can’t find the right parts to make repairs.
What I have learned from a lifetime of mistakes Andrew manages to cram in to one project.
You just don't remember all the careless things you did way back then Doc however, Andrews learning time is now but he will learn good sense as he gets older for now he is just having fun!
@@markbonham3477 Didn't I tell you I have an eidetic memory? (think about it) ;p
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@garth gimmestad I got mad and punched an engine once.
Never again ;p
docthebiker how did that turn out 😭
I love it that you have a go. Hopefully it will show others keen but nervous, to also have a go.
True perseverance shown a real rare trait these days, top job