what happened?

[Denali44]

I was riding along yesterday at about 60 mph and all of the sudden I felt the ski slow down and it seemed to lose all power. I headed back at about 40, it didn’t have to much more and I did not want to damage it further. I got it of the water and started it with the seat off and it seemed to idle fine, when I gave it throttle it had a piercing screech and I shut it down. What happened?

[watermedic]

Any vibration after this happened? Could be something in the pump, could be the SC clutches. The more information you can give about RPM's, vibration etc. the better we can help figure it out.

[Denali44]

I could not get more then 6300rpms on the way back, approx. 53mph. It did sound like the SC clutch. But I'm not sure, it's my first 4-tech.

[Denali44]

no vibrations or anything else out of the ordinary. The motor sounded normal until I took the seat off.