hydra

my spx turns over slowly with the plugs installed, with them remove it turns over fine, bateries tried are good connections are good, even with the rotary vale removed it still is diffecult to turn over i'm thinking starter but i don't want to keep throwing money at it any help would be appriciated

thomta23

You may have hydrolocked it.
When my ski did that I had sucked water in the cylinders through the exhaust because I was an idiot and forgot to turn it on its left side after tipping it. Take your plugs out, turn over the machine with a dry rag on top with the fuel selector turned off, turn it over intermittently to blow out all of the gunk, put a touch of seafoam in each cylinder, let it sit for about half an hour, tip it over on left side for a couple minutes, hope to hell it starts. If this doesnt help then you you may have issues with your crank.

hydra

thanks, i decided to take the starter apart it's pretty bad but i cleaned it up and reinstalled it and it cranks now but i'm sure not for long