Two 2001 Seadoo GTX's, Repair or sell?!?!
To be quite frank, I made a poor decision and am in a predicament. Long story short my Fiance and I fell in love with Jetski's after renting one on a trip to havasu end of March and had been itching to get our own. Browsing Facebook one day I came across two 2001 Seadoo gtx's with "106" and "103" hours for 4k with a very nice double trailer and a ton of extras. Cosmeticslly appeared well maintained (well cared for paint), they fired right up and rev'd well, and without much more research pulled the trigger (i know...). Went to Havasu and one of em kept dying after hitting ~43mph which by end of the day would happen at ~30mph. Dirty carbs, no biggie. I've rebuilt dirt bike and small equipment carbs many times, think I can manage. The problem lies with the other... aside from being a bit hard to start the first time, it ran GREAT. 60-62 MPH, no dying except a couple random instances we paid no mind to, ran it hard 2 up all day... Once home figured I'll do a maintenance on everything. So i ordered 2 carb kits, all new plugs, plus ordered a compression tester for giggles so I have peace of mind. Ski that kept dying? 125/125 cold, not bad. The one that ran GREAT? 125/85... fuck. I've rebuilt many small carbs, and done lots of my own mechanic work, but have no idea how I feel about rebuilding a top end. Is this something I could reasonably pull off? Should I just cut my losses and get the one going and see if I can get like 3k back for the whole setup?? Any advice appreciated, in the meantime I'm cosmetically restoring them both to help the shame and sadness