As some of you may know, a couple of years ago I bought a pair of jet skis in early winter (best time to buy price wise) and my family has had a blast on them. Those two are 1997 Kawasaki STX1100 Jet Skis. I found then that only Kawasaki makes a "Jet Ski". I'd discovered that I used the name "jet ski" for any personal watercraft. You know, sort of like saying I want a Coke when in fact you want a cola or some other soda.
Anyway, I just picked up another matching pair of Jet Skis. This time I went with 2004 models that are 4 stroke with fuel injection. The older ones are 2 stroke and have the automatic oil injection system. I'm always concerned that the injection system will fail and I'll cook an engine. But, what the heck, they've made it 11 years just fine. The newer ones supposedly get better fuel economy even though they have 4 cylinder engines that are 1500cc in size.
Anyway, my main purpose for the thread is to see if anyone knows a good place to get Jet Ski parts. It seems that I always need some odd little part and my local Kawasaki dealer just kills me on part prices. Last year I bought a couple of drain plugs from a place called Babbitts. They were less than my local dealer by quite a bit, but they still broke it off in me on shipping for a couple of ounces of parts.
Anyway, I just picked up another matching pair of Jet Skis. This time I went with 2004 models that are 4 stroke with fuel injection. The older ones are 2 stroke and have the automatic oil injection system. I'm always concerned that the injection system will fail and I'll cook an engine. But, what the heck, they've made it 11 years just fine. The newer ones supposedly get better fuel economy even though they have 4 cylinder engines that are 1500cc in size.
Anyway, my main purpose for the thread is to see if anyone knows a good place to get Jet Ski parts. It seems that I always need some odd little part and my local Kawasaki dealer just kills me on part prices. Last year I bought a couple of drain plugs from a place called Babbitts. They were less than my local dealer by quite a bit, but they still broke it off in me on shipping for a couple of ounces of parts.