what i should do with my sled

[j***@hotmail.com]

I have a MXZ 600 HO 2003 and just sank it and it stayed in the water
for about 3 hours. I'm not the best mechanic and I'm not sure exactly
how to clean and repair it. Please post some hints for me.
Thx. Snowhoe

[D Ward]

I did that to a sled a few years ago. Sat underwater for a day and a
half!!!

Firstly, drain the fuel tank, lines and carbs. Remove the spark plugs and
pull on the rope a few times to blow all the water out of the engine
cylinders. Drain the chaincase and refill with new oil. Drain the oil
tank, remove all the oil lines and blow them clean. Grease all fittings on
the suspension to clear them of water.

Put fresh fuel in the tank, fresh plugs, fresh oil. Use mixed fuel in the
tank as a safety till the oil in the injector lines starts to come through.
Pul the SOB over till she starts and run it till it is toasty warm - helps
dry everything else out.

If it is too late to go out riding anymore, fog the engine for summer
storage, keeping the fuel tank full with some stabilizer in it. Hope for
the best next fall when you start her up again....

Good luck...

Post by j***@hotmail.com
I have a MXZ 600 HO 2003 and just sank it and it stayed in the water
for about 3 hours. I'm not the best mechanic and I'm not sure exactly
how to clean and repair it. Please post some hints for me.
Thx. Snowhoe

[Doug Bissett]

Post by j***@hotmail.com
I have a MXZ 600 HO 2003 and just sank it and it stayed in the water
for about 3 hours. I'm not the best mechanic and I'm not sure exactly
how to clean and repair it. Please post some hints for me.
Thx. Snowhoe

What you need to do, depends a lot on how dirty the water was. I was
involved with a sled that was sunk in absolutely clean water (about 20
feet down), for a couple of months (some idiot stole it, then broke
through the ice - it was only chance that someone spotted it while
fishing - don't know what happened to the guy who stole it). All that
was required, was to drain the water, empty the gas tank (filtered the
gas through a water filter, and got about a cup full of water out of
it - gas, in that location, was worth about $16 per gallon, and that
was about 20 years ago), put the gas back in, along with lots of oil,
and started it up. After it warmed up enough to evaporate any left
over water, it was fine. Of course, this was not a high performance
engine.

I have also been involved with another, that was sunk in a river, that
was very muddy. It was only under for about 15 minutes, but in that
time, the engine filled up with mud. Of course, the only way to clean
that up, is to take everything apart, and, carefully, wash it, before
putting it back together.

It also matters, if you were at WOT, when it went under. If you suck
in a bunch of water, the pistons will, very suddenly, stop, when they
have no more room to compress the gasses, and that will bend, or even
break, the crank, or worse. If you managed to think about killing it,
before it went under (yeah right), you shouldn't have that problem.

Doing it yourself can be a learning experience, and you can, possibly,
take some short cuts, that a professional could not, but you do take a
chance that it will self destruct if you miss something, or do
something wrong.

What more can I say??? Except, good luck...