regular maintenance schedule?

[RobertH]

Hi Folks, I've just recently bought a Tango Super Sport. It's an '07 model with the 240HP Mercury engine. I don't know anything about these and have no service history or run time details / log data for the boat.

Is there a service schedule for these boats, the motors, steering system or the jet drive units ? I guess there isn't much else to them really (?) but would like to know what I need to do and how often I need to do it to take care of the boat properly.

Any advice would be appreciated. Currently my instruments - fuel gauge, tacho and speedo only work intermittently. Suggestions on how to troubleshoot this would be great, thanks.

Cheers fellas

 

[Babin Farms]

Maybe @Bilmon can help with the Sugar Sand questions.

If your gauges work intermittently all at the same time I would look for a grounding issue. Chances are they all use the same ground wire.

 

[RobertH]

Oh ok thank you. That's a good tip.

Q - does anyone know what type of kill switch these boats have, is it active-open or active-closed ? Mine doesn't appear to work either

 

[pmorita]

Same issue with my 05 Tango. The tach works if going above 3000 RPM and the speedo worked when it wanted to. Replaced the speedo with a GPS unit and I would suggest the same. Works better than I imagined. I don't worry about the tach as it works at higher speeds. Gas guage works well, but if it didn't, I would just watch the gas level in the tank manually until I traced the issue.

 

[biffdotorg]

Here is a "rockstar" document on servicing any of the Merc SportJets. It was shared on the SeaDoo Forum years ago and I used this procedure on my SeaDoo X20. Of course, we had the same exact 240EFI as you do, so it applies to you as well.

Enjoy!