She sunk last week; i went out to the dock to work on her and she was tight lined to the dock. I think her bilge pumped failed and we had major rains!!
She wasnt under water for more than 12 hours but we got a backhoe and pulled her out. SHe is now missing her seats and most likely the engine will need to be redone/replaced but she still would be a great project.
I am for sure set on selling her now and will do so for a good price to a good home. She sunk last Wed and if someone jumped on it fast they might be able to save the engine??? If you know of anyone that is up for a major project to bring back to life a "poor mans XK19" please let me know.
I hope you are doing well and i continually enjoy your site!!
If it was salt, I would flush all the interior out, including the electrics. Then use a leaf blower to dry everything off, and soak down everything with WD40.
Pop the distributor cap, use a lot of WD40. It may have to be pulled if it is pocketing a lot of water.
Drain the fuel tank. Be sure water is out. Refill with a quarter tank, slosh around, siphon some out, see what you have.
Squirt WD into the instruments. I don't think it will hurt any electrical device. Someone please correct me if I am off base here.
Drain the oil, put fresh oil in (cheap stuff, because you'll have to drain it out again). Fill the cylinders with ATF or MMO, turn everything over by hand. Eventually, when you squirt out the ATF or MMO, then you can hopefully spin the motor with the starter (with plugs out). At that point, drain the oil again, re fill, and it's ready to sell.
If you wait for rust to take hold of the piston rings and valve stems, then you're going to get a few pennies on the dollar, and the motor may well have to be taken apart. If you go after the essentials and get fluid circulated as noted, you should be okay.
Very sorry to hear about this bad news. It does happen, more than we would all like to admit, but there are a lot of boats out there still runnig that spent a short while like a submarine.
I moved your note to this dedicated thread, with the link noted above to the other info about it. It will get more exposure this way.
I'm terribly sorry to hear this news. I think Tom has some good suggestions, I would do what he notes, and do it this week end if at all possible. The good news is, boats won't rust under water for that amount of time, but they will begin rusting when exposed to oxygen. Go ahead, drain it down, get that water out, and flush it like Tom said. I think it's all good advice. Pull the cap off the voltage regulator and put WD40 all over the internals too. Of course, the carb needs to come off, sadly. If you do this, and can sell the boat in running condition, even if it won't run properly, it's worth a lot more than a boat with a sad story.
You should be able to do all this in the course of a few hours to half a day, actually. Once things all dry out, wipe the WD off the contact points, be sure you have good fuel, and I'll bet it runs.
Good luck, all the best,
Paul
This message has been edited by FEfinaticP on Feb 2, 2008 7:22 AM This message has been edited by FEfinaticP on Feb 1, 2008 7:00 PM
It's imperative that you get everything dried out. Tom sent in some good advice. Major engine parts should be okay if they're flushed out. Electrics will suffer unless they're dried out fast and saturated with WD40. Sorry about that carb, better take it apart, waste a can of carb cleaner on it, put it back together with a new filter right near the carb, get that puppy running before you sell it.
If it went down in salt water, that wiring harness will need some careful attention. I don't know how far salt will seep up a wire, but they'll all need attention if it was salt water. I hope it wasn't. When we have boats go under here in the Gulf, the general practice is to rewire totally, otherwise they won't sell as soon as someone knows they were under.
Once you get the motorspinning without plugs, be careful you don't overheat and fry the starter. Check the oil, if it looks like a milkshake, you know you picked up some of the water in the sump, which is probably good to know.
Transmission fluid, check it, be prepared to flush it, oil floats out the breather and therefore water got in.
