imalldunn

My GTX 155 pretty much sank last night ... barely floating, nose up, on a mooring. Got it ashore, pumped the bilge, secured it on the beach. Manual says take it to dealer & do not try to start. I looked in the air intake box to see if there was water in it, as I know NOT to start if there is. What I found was liquid, but milky in color and oil/oily. Not a lot, like a 1/23/4" deep ring of it at the bottm of the intake. Anyone know (with certainty!), if that's normal & I'm OK to try to fire it up, or should I get it towed, pull it & get it serviced?

BTW, in direct path of Irene in CT, so I need to get whatever I need to do, done tomorrow! Thanks.

Peter

pwcpro

what has happened is you got water in your crankcase along withn oil and this has overflow into the air box. first, make sure all of the electrical connectors that were submerged are dry and apply a di-electric grease before plugging back in. next, remove spark plugs. then, plug in dess key and with the seat on, crank over the engine. if there is water in cylynders, it will shoot out of the spark plug holes. then pull the oil dipstick to see if milky substance is also on it. if so you will have to perform several oil changes along with a burn off period. once oil is mostly clean, run for a while(2-3 hours) thenchange oil again. be sure to resolve the water leak beefore you return to the water!

imalldunn

No pro on this end. Appreciate the info. Off to the dealer for service, if I can get it towed & out tomorrow before Irene makes this discussion moot!