Glass over the opening behind the black grill at the top of the cowling just in front of the handle bars to seal it shut. Remove the top half of the Sea Doo hull and completely reglass it inside. Production ran from 1968 with the original design air cooled Sea Doo "320" Model and ended in 1969 with the redesigned water cooled Sea Doo model "372" which sported a better hull/keel design a bigger jet pump, and a water cooled twin cylinder Rotax 368cc engine.ĭuring the end of production, a recall was placed in effect on the 372 Models to overcome a problem where the boats would explode during hot starting. Both were submitted to Sea Doo who then modified the final design to look more in keeping with their current model snowmobiles, ie., yellow paint with black accent strips and the tradmark round, "positive curve," nose profile. The inventor, Clayton Jacobson, completed the design and built a proto-type. The results of the much larger hull design signaled the birth of the sit down personal watercraft. This engine was too big, and required too much air for cooling, to be used in small, narrow stand up design. It was a 320cc air cooled single cylinder Rotax engine currently in use in their "Olympique" model Ski Doo Snowmobiles. The twist in his stand up design came when Sea Doo provided him with the engine they wanted to be used. The executives at Sea Doo had heard of guy who was working on an intriguing design for a stand up jet powered water craft.sound familiar? That's right, the same guy who later brought the world the Kawasaki Jet Ski, designed the original personal watercraft, the 1968 Sea Doo! The makers of Ski Doo snowmobiles had the idea that it would be fun to create a snowmobile type riding experience for the water. Bombardier released the first jet ski, the 1968 Model 320, to the unsuspecting masses after a relatively short development period. It’s interesting, but unfortunately we have no parts for these early models –if any still exists. Included in the Sea-doo parts line are Sea Doo gaskets, Sea Doo pistons and rings, Sea Doo bearings, Sea Doo oil seals, Sea Doo starters, Sea Doo rotary valves and Sea Doo pump parts.įor those of you interested in knowing more about the history of Sea Doo watercraft, read on.
Rotax is a tradename of Bombardier Corporation which manuafactures Seadoo personal watercrafts. Powering on the Spark and holding down the reverse lever will bring up a menu for you move the bucket by pressing the VTS buttons.The Watercraft Superstore sells a complete line of Sea Doo parts for repairing your Rotax engine. Once you have VTS installed on your Spark all you need to do to adjust neutral is to place the watercraft in neutral and then just move the VTS up and down buttons to find the most natural for your craft.Īlso for my techs out there you can now move the iBR bucket up and down to be able to get to the pump a little better. So the iBR will just sit in the middle but you could always adjust this on the bigger models with iBR using the up and down arrows while in neutral. The neutral on a jet ski is just in between forward and reverse. On any jet ski you don’t have a true natural. The hardest part is figuring out the pins that connect to the button.Īn added benefit that no one mentions about getting the VTS kit installed on your iBR model Spark is that it will allow you to fine tune neutral. I feel like it really doesn’t take that long but I’ve got a little bit experience in putting these things on. Not a huge deal breaker as the VTS a highly needed feature for the Spark. So with this kit all your really getting is the button and chip that allows the functions to happen. Sea Doo being clever like they do, combined the iBR motor and the VTS motor into one to make things a little simpler. Also all the major components such as the VTS motor and VTS hardware is already on the iBR models.
I hope that this doesn’t upset you but this kit only works on iBR models only. The VTS comes in Seadoo’s standard yellow box with all the parts and the instructions. At least for 2015 Sea Doo finally gave us the VTS we all wanted and in this article we will be talking about what’s in the box and how hard it will be to put one on. It only made sense to have VTS on such a nimble watercraft. It was quite odd that Sea Doo didn’t come out with VTS (variable trim system) right away with the Sparks.