Things to do after drowning bike

[250sx_mulisha]

long story short i was jumping piles in a pumice pit and didnt relise the reason one part was so flat was because it was waist deep water with pumice floating in top

i have stripped my bike down and the barrel and piston still look good
should i just take her down completely and clean/dry everything or is there some tricks i can use?

[Macktheknife]

long story short i was jumping piles in a pumice pit and didnt relise the reason one part was so flat was because it was waist deep water with pumice floating in top

i have stripped my bike down and the barrel and piston still look good
should i just take her down completely and clean/dry everything or is there some tricks i can use?

hahahahahahahaha
gottta love that!
The short answer is yes; strip, clean and dry; grease oil and lube; rebuild, ride on.
I am not a fan of short cuts when it has been snorkelling.
Good luck, did anyone get a photo?

[ManDownUnder]

hahahahahahahaha
gottta love that!
The short answer is yes; strip, clean and dry; grease oil and lube; rebuild, ride on.
I am not a fan of short cuts when it has been snorkelling.
Good luck, did anyone get a photo?

LMFAO - what he said... oh and bling! I am so glad I'm not the only one that does shit that dumb!

[janno]

Bugger, bugger, bugger!

where is the youtube generation when you need them . . .

bling to you for letting us know, would have paid money to see that! :yes:

[psyguy]

as kids we used to jump with our bikes off the wharf into the sea... :innocent:
(don't ask me why)
i remember it was heaps and heaps of work afterwards cleaning everything inside and out, and it was only a simple bicycle... i sure don't envy you having to do all that cleaning on a motorbike! :shit:
i don't remember any tricks or shortcuts, just lotsa work...
good luck!

[250sx_mulisha]

i stripped it all down
it hasnt rusted at all it seams all fine
only prob is i cant get the nut off the end of the crank
how do i stop it spinning?
i need the split the case to clean the big end
i sprayed heaps of premix down into it and that seams to have got the water out i just worry about the grit

[psyguy]

only prob is i cant get the nut off the end of the crank
how do i stop it spinning?

not sure if applicable to your bike, but ... remove the piston / gudgeon pin, put a screwdriver through the piston rod eye and use a piece of wood as a support between the crankcase and the screwdriver so the crankshaft can't turn over as you undo the nut

[250sx_mulisha]

haha just tried that it just made a big groove in the peice of wood
i put a rag on a 3/8th extension and put it through the rod eye

might heat up the nut

[Conquiztador]

long story short i was jumping piles in a pumice pit and didnt relise the reason one part was so flat was because it was waist deep water with pumice floating in top

i have stripped my bike down and the barrel and piston still look good
should i just take her down completely and clean/dry everything or is there some tricks i can use?

Salt sea water: Yes strip and clean and grease!!!

Fresh water or rain water: Empty water, fill up with new oil and fuel and U be away. Same as when bike stands outside in rain. OK, so U got water inside motor. But it will not do much harm if emptied and filled with new oil/fuel straight away.

Good Luck!

[F5 Dave]

Just hold on cuz with the brutal attempts. I'd just flush it out well with Kero several times & invert. Then see if the gear oil is contaminated & flush that if so.

To remove the flywheel nut you need to hold the flywheel, in absence of the correct holder a rattle gun will spin it off, or can use a chain link vice grip plumbing tool that wraps around the flywheel. But then you need the flywheel puller & to go further you need other tools to separate the cases. I'd just flush it.

[250sx_mulisha]

i heated up the nut very gently and it wound off easy as
i had been using snapon impacter so it had plenty of balls but loktite was to hard to crack the nut off

the crank bearings are rusted it got heaps of mud in there when it got drowned ordered both sides

big end and little end are sweet barrel and piston/ring are fine

i would of flushed it if it was just water but pumice/mud is abrasive as

all my gears and everything look brand new not even a sign of wear
quite impressed really all looks brand new
pretty stokes the case gasket came off in one peice and should go back in

only thing i didnt like was the cases are so thin how do they hold up to my abuse?

ahh im a very happy man now bed time
anyone wana ride this week end?

[F5 Dave]

How long was it left for the mains to go rusty?

[250sx_mulisha]

overnight
i filled the crank case with premix too try prevent that too
they arnt very rusty just surface and make a noise so out they go

[F5 Dave]

Well you did the right thing -I am shocked they rusted so quickly, what the hell is in a pumice pit? [thinks] I guess it must be a volcanic area, sulphur etc?? Don't really have any locally.

[250sx_mulisha]

oh yeah forgot to mention its a 2 stroke
it has ball bearing mains

yeah there was alot of grit in the crank case
the water had got into the bearing with grit and i wasnt able to flush it out with out pressure
the parts washer blasted the water out but by that time it was to late

if it was river water and clean i would just taken the spark plug out tipped her upside down and got most the water out and started it
would of dried up at operating temp

[250sx_mulisha]

http://i68.photobucket.com/albums/i38/mossberg_hunter/bike002.jpg

thats the rust on the bearing

http://i68.photobucket.com/albums/i38/mossberg_hunter/bike003.jpg

the peice of wood my 3/8 extension put a groove in

http://i68.photobucket.com/albums/i38/mossberg_hunter/bike001.jpg

and me roosting a terrano in the rain

[250sx_mulisha]

all done
new bearings,gear box and engine
new vertex piston,rings gudion pin big end and little end bearing replaced
every seal ugraded to top of the line and genuine gasket replaced
new sparkplug


heated the casings in the oven to 150 degrees and the bearings all tapped out then new ones dropped straight in they locked in place when it cooled down