ski sunk help

[rbabb524]

So yesterday in fear of this hurricane my family took my sxr out of water. They didn't know that I had exhaust pipe off due to replacing starter. Therefore they sunk it. This was around 1:00pm. I got home around 11:00pm. I couldn't flip jetski over by myself at this time and ski was on trailer, so I took out the engine and drained it. I then filled the engine with oil so it wouldn't rust over night. What are my next steps? I can't drain oil and start the engine to remove any extra moisture, because I still don't have the new starter. Do I need to rip down the entire engine? Also do you think I caught the problem in time?

Any help would be much appreciated.

 

[badvinny]

safest bet is to open it right up, plus then you will see if your efforts were enough to keep the crank bearings safe!

 

[SUPERJET-113]

Ya, you need to get it running and blow the crap out of it for a good 15-20 min ride, or completely strip it down and clean/blow with compressed air.. carbs too. Sorry to say.

 

[rbabb524]

If I were to get a starter overnight-ed and leave the oil in it for 2 days would that work or too risky? Should I just rip it down today?

 

[McDog]

Gas would have neen better than oil.

 

[erik mx45]

was it fresh water or salt? if salt a few days is to long i would tear it down!

 

[rbabb524]

It was fresh water. I ended up borrowing a starter from a buddy so we are putting it back together now to get it running

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[rbabb524]

So I got it started. I drained the oil. Then filled it with gas. Drained it. Did that again to get any dirt out and excess oil out. Put ski back together with buddies starter. Fired right up and I let it Idol for like 30 min.

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[dmpus]

Just ideling will not burn the moisture out of the cases. You need to run it hard for a while

 

[rbabb524]

I fogged it last night after letting it idelling. ended up putting it in the water today and ran it for about 20min wfo. Ran great

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[Fro Diesel]

Go run it for another 20 and check compression you may have dodged a bullet.

 

[guy_from_Iowa]

Just in case you haven't come across this thread yet its a good read. Also mentions filling the engine with diesel if you can't get it running or disassembled right away. http://www.x-h2o.com/index.php?threads/so-you-sunk-your-ski.111656/

 

[rbabb524]

Yeah I saw that but didn't have any access to diesel at 1:00 am when I got home

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[superjetguy]

We had a competition a while ago with some friends to see who could sink their ski, get it back to shore, fired up, and run a few laps the fastest. These skis are resilient I'm sure you're fine! Most of the skis were 550s and 750s.

 

[BradyK]

We had a competition a while ago with some friends to see who could sink their ski, get it back to shore, fired up, and run a few laps the fastest. These skis are resilient I'm sure you're fine! Most of the skis were 550s and 750s.

that sounds horrible

 

[superjetguy]

that sounds horrible

I believe it takes a little bit of liquid courage.