Sunk my SRX need some help

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Styles211

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I sunk my Srx today while out ice fishing, it was under for about an hour. Just need some advise on getting her back up and running. It is in my shop thawing out right now. It froze solid on the trip home.

Thanks in advance!
 
Had the same thing happen two weeks ago. Here is what I did:

1. Remove all exhaust parts and dump the water out

2. Remove air box and dump the water out

3. Remove the carbs and dump the water out. I took them completely apart, rinsed with isopropyl alcohol (rubbing alcohol), then sprayed everything off with carb cleaner. Left them apart to further dry while I did the rest of the steps.

4. Pulled the cylinder heads and cylinders.

5. Using a small hand pump with a thin piece of tubing, I pumped the water out of the crank case. Then I filled the crankcase with rubbing alcohol, pumped it out again and repeated once more. I then sprayed a bunch of carb cleaner in the crank case, then set a big fan on top of the engine blowing into the crank case for a few hours. The puropse of the alcohol is to remove any traces of water. Water and alcohol form what is called an azeotropic mixture which means that they blend completely (unlike gasoline and water which seperate) and will evaporate at a much faster rate and lower temperature than water alone.

6. While the fan was running, I drained and flushed out the gas tank, oil tank and cooling system. I used rubbing alcohol in the gas tank and tried my best to spray it all over using a squirt bottle. Then I did the same with gasoline to rinse out the alcohol. Make sure that you get all of the fuel lines rinsed out too.

7. Drained, flushed and refiled the chaincase.

8. Using the hand pump, empty the water out of the trunk!

9. Regreased all suspension and steering parts.

10. Your speedo cable is probablly broken if you pulled the sled around after it had frozen up... mine was broke.

11. Put it all back together.

12. Cross fingers

13. Pull on rope and hope it makes fire!

14. Mine started on the second pull. Project took about 6 hours with two of us working (lots of beer breaks!). I have put 250 miles on since the incident and it is running as good as it ever has. Gotta love Yamaha!
 
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go completely thru fuel system. drain everything. remove carbs,air box, fuel pump, tank. oil tank. chain case ,drain and refill.pull plugs and pull over making shure all water is out of the base.wd 40 spray liberally everwhere just for starters
 
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And do all the stuff mentioned above ASAP. You don't want that water sitting in the crank!!! Corrosion doesn't wait long.
 
same as above but do not put iso in motor, it removes lube, better to fill with two stroke oil while your doing all the other draining once everything is dry and ready to go suck as much oil as you can out, put rags by plug hole and exhaust and pull over slowly until the large amounts of lube are out then pull over quicker until fine mist reassemble and start let idle for as long as you can
 
seats are salvageable. sunk my sxr 2 years ago. peeled the seat cover off put the foam between 2 pieces of plywood and drove the truck over it a few times. then parked the truck on it for half an hour. this took most of the water out after that i just put a fan to it. putting it next to a nice wood stove after squishing it might do the trick too. also your headlight bulb is probably broken mine shattered cause it was so hot then got cooled so fast by the water. had to take the headlight assembly right out to shake and rinse all the little pieces out. hope this helps
 
I never thought about the seat! I had the sled out on two different occasions after the water incident and didn't notice any difference in the seat. It had sat out overnight in 10F weather and the seat was still soft in the morning. I am going to remove the seat this weekend and see how much water is in it.
 
Tore it down today and sucked all the water out of the crankcase. Soaked it with WD40 and sucked all that out. I am starting to wonder If at this point, I should do a complet rebuild. I am worried that the crank barings and the main seal are going to be screwed. Any thoughts?
 
I'm no expert by any means but I too have been in this situation where I had to wait a day before drying out my sled after being under water and I didn't have any issues.Like everyone else said dry the pipes out,new gas & oil (although I just dumped a bottle of isopropyl into each tank and run it) and pull the engine over easily to pump the water out of the base.Once you have the majority of the water out and the engine will pull over easily without locking up (usually happens with a lot of water in the base ) put the pipes on and fire it up.The biggest thing after that is letting it run a while to really dry any excess water up.
One other area to look at too is all the electrical connectors,pop the apart and put some dielectric grease in them to get rid of any moisture.
 
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Tore it down today and sucked all the water out of the crankcase. Soaked it with WD40 and sucked all that out. I am starting to wonder If at this point, I should do a complet rebuild. I am worried that the crank barings and the main seal are going to be screwed. Any thoughts?
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Dropping an outboard in the drink is a regular weekly occurence at most tourest camps in the North.[My youngest son, at 6,went to the bottom of Lac Suel off the float of my PA12 with a Johnson 2hp in his arms!!!He never let it go until we fished him out, thata boy!! We still had an awesome day of fishing,his mom still does'nt know] If it was'nt running when it went in,with an outboard, you pull the plugs, fill the cylinders with fuel, dump it out, pull it over and repeat, put the plugs back in and spark it up! Sleds are no different. The key is to get it up and running ASAP!If your crank and seals were OK prior to going in,they should be OK now. Lets not get into over kill here. After you've done the excellant recommended procedures advised...premix your first tank of fuel, take it easy til its gone..."THEN DRIVE IT LIKE YOU STOLE IT"!!!
JMO!
 
good call vmax4 on not getting carried away. after i sunk mine i just pulled it out turned it on its side pulled the plugs and pulled on the cord till it stopped puking water and i could see gas and oil coming out. then put the plugs in finger tight and fired it up. took an easy lap around the lake till it cleaned out abit then tightened the plugs and rode the crap out of it. mind you it was only under for about 10 mins. but i never had any issues after that.
 
i agree with 800vmax4 about an outboard, but not if the hole boat goes down there is alot to do with boat it has to be dryed, same as sled ,dry and check as prevously stated by other members and its important ASAP on motor
 
I have "soaked seat" experience... my Phazer a long time ago. I would suggest removing the cover from the seat and hanging the seat for several days or weeks with a fan blowing on it. It will take a day or two before it starts dripping (at least that's how it was with the foam back then).
 
my buddy sunk his MXZ 600 a couple moths ago, he never did anything with the seat, but he got a 700 motor for it after, he lost the 600 motor all together, but it was salt water. I dont think you need to fool with the seat.
 
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