Ok I like many other am having sportjet issues. Mine is a 90hp 1995. I am missing the sound attenuator/airbox on it. I have never really worked on engines so its all very new to me. I had a mechanic come and help me out with getting it running. He told me that the attenuator wasn't really important but we still had problems starting it. I did some research myself because I had hoses just hanging off the carbs. Sure enough they attach to the sound attenuator. I looked at the older models and it didn't look all to important on those but in my model one of them connects to an auto enrichner. I did some research and found out that this helps control the amount of gas released into the system. I then figured that the lack of this hose being attached to the attenuator might be causing it to either flood the engine or not give enough gas to it. If this is the case then the attenuator would actually be important to get a hold of. Would anyone know if this is true? Would anyone know were the heck can i find this part? I have seriously looked every were. The other issue I am having is my genius mechanic I hired decided it was a good idea to try to start it without a flush kit. So BLAMMO blown rideplate....ugh...I hadn't been on the forums yet so I didn't see the 90 million warnings to not do this. Fortunately the ride plate only sneezed off and although a little bent its not torn or broken so I think it can be bent back into shape and placed back in with a new rubber seal. The thing that bothers me is that after this happened I had it parked in my garage and a puddle of fluid pooled under the jet drive. This was not gas nor was it the oil mixture because it was not blue in color. It was rather thick and smelled like car oil or something similar. Any clue where this fluid could be coming from and what I might need to repair in that area? Would it be some sort of hydrolic fluid or lubricating oil for the jet drive parts? Is there anything down in that area that could have been blown loose?
