Elite Mouse
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NO, NO, NO!!!!!RAndrew42 said:...and if you drop it you should give it full throttle because it will keep the water from staying inside your engine, it will just go through...
+2RM_guy said:NO, NO, NO!!!!!
If you drop it in the water kill the engine as quickly as possible. A running engine will pull water into the filter, carb, cylinder, pipe...you get the point. Not a pretty picture and can take a lot of trail side clean up to get it running again.
maxrevs666 said:
Ride with a buddy and make him go first
Actually, water in the exhaust pipe is of little concern because it is on the EXHAUST side. Anything in the pipe will be pushed out when the bike is eventually started. If your pipe is filled to the point where water can back-flow into a dead engine you would have to release enough of it to keep the cylinder free of the back-wash, but the real problem is on the intake side. Your carburetor is designed to pull in air, mix it with fuel, and deliver it to the combustion chamber. If instead it pulls in water, that is what gets delivered to your engine. As we all know, water doesn't burn very well, nor does it compress. If your bike floods with water, DO NOT try to start it or otherwise rotate the engine until the spark plug has been removed. Since it is impossible to compress water, severe engine could occur if you try to rotate the engine while the cylinder is full of water.photojojo said:If the bike does got flooded you can stand it up on it's rear wheel to drain the water from the tailpipe.
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