07/13/2026
Tip of the day:
One of the most common calls I get during the summer is, "My machine all of a sudden lost power, Just won't go!" I tell them, "look up inside the jet drive intake grate and check for weeds or debris". Every time they say, "There's nothing in it"
Then it gets here and there's debris.
When checking for weeds under your machine they're not always gonna be hanging out of the bottom of the intake grate for you to see, Debris will wrap around the driveshaft like these machines and interrupt the water coming in creating air pockets which caused cavitation and this is where you lose your power. You have to get up underneath the machine and look up into that intake grate. You may have to run it back to the launch and get it out with your trailer to crawl underneath it otherwise if you have the machine up near the beach and have a couple people you can tip it up on its side toward the exhaust side of the machine. Most of them will have a decal on the back telling you which way to roll it on its side but rolling it the wrong way while the engine is off can take water from the exhaust system and put it into the cylinders so it's critical that you tip to the side of the exhaust where it comes off the engine. Typically it is on the left side of the engine this would mean you want to tip it clockwise from the back.
These are two examples of machines that showed nothing hanging out the bottom and the customers missed the real problem farther up inside .
