TwoBallScrewBall
Lieutenant Commander
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- Sep 14, 2003
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Well, didn't know whether to put this here or in the stupid human forum. Decided on here since I could use some advice.<br /><br />NJ had some seriuos torrential rain in my area Wednesday night. I went fishing Tuesday and parked the boat when I got back, apparently leaving the plug in. Wednesday the rains came, and they were serious. The street in front of my house was under literally 2 feet of rainwater. My neighbors across the street had water about a foot up their garage doors and front doors. Luckily I'm on a slight elevation compared to them so I stayed dry. Anyway.....<br /><br />Got home from work yesterday (Thursday) and was thinking of chasing some fluke, so I went out to get the boat ready. Everything in the boat was floating in about 6" of water over the floor. There was about 2 feet total of water measured from the bottom of the hull. Water submerged starter completely, just barely started covering alternator, and was above the oil pan but about 1/4" below the bottom of the dipstick tube. <br /><br />So I take out the plug and switch on my 1000gph pump, and 45 minutes later the water finally stops. I roughly calculated by the time it took to drain that there was about 975 gallons of water in the boat. This was from ONE NIGHT!!!! And no runoffs running into the boat or anything like that, just straight rainwater. At 6 pounds a gallon, I really don't know how my poor little escort trailer survived it. But thank god it did. <br /><br />After draining the boat I checked the dipstick, just oil on it. So I whipped out the muffs and hit the starter. Click. Hit is again. Click. I figure maybe the battery is dead from pumping so I switch over to batt 2. Click. Click. Now I'm getting upset. Click. Click. Click. Click. Then finally Click turned into crank and the little 3.0 started right up and idled like nothing ever happened. <br /><br />I'm worried about 2 things. Number one and the lesser of the two is the motor. Looks like no water in the oil after running so that's good. I'm a little worried about the starter but think it just got stuck from getting wet and finally broke loose. Anything else I should be thinking about or checking? The gimble bearing was definitely under, should I worry about that? I greased it already after the engine started. <br /><br />Number two is the boat. How much damage, water logging, future rot, etc, can I now expect since my entire floor was under about 1/2 foot of water for almost 24 hours? <br /><br />I'll have pictures in a few minutes.....<br /><br />Please tell me everything's going to be OK!!!!