I keep reading that the shaft seal cooling hose shouldn’t be coming off the transmission cooler.  Where should it be coming off of if not there?

Hi all, just taking the Axis out of storage today. Put all the plugs back in and ran the boat on the trailer. But the engine temp is getting to 223 degrees and sounding the alarm. Got good water flow coming out the exhaust and no visible leaks. Antifreeze full in both reservoirs. Any suggestions? Thanks, T

I’m confident all clamps are tight. Just put another new water pump in just in case (they are cheap enough). And I ran it without thermostat.  It has the hose reroute kit done, new raw water pump and engine water pump.  Running hose connected directly to v-drive.  I even replaced a lot of hoses just in case. It seems to climb steadily to 200 without the thermostat in.   Any idea where the coolant sensor is?  

When I ran my '02 Wakesetter for the first time this season I noticed that my fuel pump was squealing so I drained the fuel line between the fuel filter and the fuel pump and noticed that there was a good amount of silt in the line. After that I took the screen out of the bottom of the fuel pump and cleaned it with carburetor cleaner.

As I was putting the fuel lines back together I put the screen (fuel pump filter) in the cap of the cleaner on the dashboard of my car. When I went back to get the screen a gust of wind blew the cap over and the screen fell into my dash board.  I've taken my dashboard apart as far as I can (probably farther than I should have) and can't find it. I called the local Malibu shop who called Indmar who said that they wouldn't provide just the screen for the fuel pump so they told me that I will have to buy a whole new pump.

The bad news is that the fuel pump was just replaced last summer and only has about 45 hours on it, so I really don't want to buy new one. Does anyone have any suggestions for a replacement solution? Does anyone know what type of screen this would be (microns etc.)?

This is frustrating.

any tips on changing the paddle wheel on my 07 vlx? Can i do it all from inside the boat or do i need to pull the boat out?