Water was WAY deeper then I though! Sunk my whole bike! Qestions....

[4wheeling]

So I was riding at a local lake here and there is a mud flats area where people 4wheel and ride quads and bikes... The lake is fairly shallow for a ways out there (under 1 foot in depth) so it was already raining out and I was soaked to the bone so I thought I would just rip through the water as fast as I could... What did I care I was already wet!

 

Anyway it turns out there is a freaking ditch dug though the lake about 10 feet out and I didn't see it.... Under I went and before I knew what the hell happened the bike stalled and I was VERY wet... Yet much cleaner!

 

So we towed my Banshee out of the lake and stood her up.... Took the plugs out, kicked it over drained all the water out of the carb, put new plugs in and tried to start it... No luck, I got tired. So we hooked up a two strap from my Shee to my friends Shee and he towed me down the road with the clutch out and it finally started up, spit water out the exhaust for a bit but idled just fine after a couple mins.

 

My question is.... Should I be looking at anything now or removing/cleaning/draining/changing anything after this drowning?

 

Thanks everyone!

 

C

Edited August 26, 2007 by 4wheeling

[ripped blaster]

clean your air filter, drain the float bowls, and change your oil. might be a good idea to repack your silencer since it got soaked.after that you should be good.

[peterlocal22]

first def. change the oil and look to see if its milky or if it just looks like untouched oil then let me know

[4wheeling]

first def. change the oil and look to see if its milky or if it just looks like untouched oil then let me know

 

Ok I will do this tomorrow and let you know, funny thing is I just changed the oil before this ride it is fresh oil in it... Man my Yammaha dealer is getting rich off me lately! Back there tomorrow to get some more trans oil.

 

C

[NYUK]

take the stator cover off, make sure it didn t fill with water, i have bought abot 10 complete bikes where the owners had water all the way up over the top of the fly wheel. they couldn t figure out why it won t start.

new oil, gas, plugs, dry all wire connections.stand her up and make sure all water drains out of cylinders.

[XxMeltIcexX]

lmao ive never seen such a story on BHQ, i can just see someone towing a banshee out of a lake.... Sounds like they covered everything...

 

Eric

[FasterThanU90]

hah yea water is not compressible

[4wheeling]

lmao ive never seen such a story on BHQ, i can just see someone towing a banshee out of a lake.... Sounds like they covered everything...

 

Eric

 

I am suprized no one has sunk a bike before... I was really easy to do!!

 

Will check overything over this week, I have a set of VForce2 reeds to put in the bike so that whole area needs to come apart which will give me a good look at the whole intake system and clean out any forigen material that may have gotten in there.

 

C

[peterlocal22]

I am suprized no one has sunk a bike before... I was really easy to do!!

 

Will check overything over this week, I have a set of VForce2 reeds to put in the bike so that whole area needs to come apart which will give me a good look at the whole intake system and clean out any forigen material that may have gotten in there.

 

C

 

i sink my bike at least once a year thats why i was giving you some advice lol.

its funnny there are ony a couple people on this s/ite that really sink there bike like us. oh well its fun right?

let me know what happens after you drain the oil?

thanks peter

[4wheeling]

Ok so here is what I did today....

 

Frist Drained the transmission oil... It was not milky at all... Perhaps very very very slightly grey but not mikly for sure... I would say little to no water got in there.

 

I then proceeded to remove the air filter, I noticed some sandy shit got in the carbs so I took them off, took the bowls off and cleaned the heck out of them and put them back together, took the reeds out as well (I have a set of Vforce2 reeds I bought on ebay coming in the next day or two), I then looked at the pistons as best you can through the reed ports and all looks good...

 

I got the idea however that there might be some water in the bottom end of the engine so I basically stood the bike up on end and tilted it back and sure enough a bunch of water poured out.... I got as much of it as I could so I think it will be ok.

 

I will put everything back together after I get my reeds in the next day or so and hopfully all is well.

 

Anything I did sound odd or do you have any other suggestions of things I should do?

 

Thanks!

 

C

[Justintoxicated]

Ok so here is what I did today....

 

Frist Drained the transmission oil... It was not milky at all... Perhaps very very very slightly grey but not mikly for sure... I would say little to no water got in there.

 

I then proceeded to remove the air filter, I noticed some sandy shit got in the carbs so I took them off, took the bowls off and cleaned the heck out of them and put them back together, took the reeds out as well (I have a set of Vforce2 reeds I bought on ebay coming in the next day or two), I then looked at the pistons as best you can through the reed ports and all looks good...

 

I got the idea however that there might be some water in the bottom end of the engine so I basically stood the bike up on end and tilted it back and sure enough a bunch of water poured out.... I got as much of it as I could so I think it will be ok.

 

I will put everything back together after I get my reeds in the next day or so and hopfully all is well.

 

Anything I did sound odd or do you have any other suggestions of things I should do?

 

Thanks!

 

C

 

Pull the A-arms off and fill them new grease. At miniumum re-grease all Zerks.

 

Banshees REALLY do not like water. I would suggest getting a different ATV if you plan on submerging it again. Likely you will have a bad rust problem develope somewhere. Your flywheel is going to rust, the pipes are going to rust, crank could have some problems now etc.

[flattrakker]

dang i sink 4 wheelers all the time right through the ice. hit a soft spot and your done. all i do is drain all the fluids and replace them with new ones. depends how bad tho. asolutly make sure there is no water sitting in the case. my 4 stroke was 1400 bucks to fix becuse the whole inside rusted out.