Nissan NS60A no spark - water accident

[A Laker Taker]

My NS60A stopped running on me today on my way back from fishing. I was running at crusing speed and the motor hesitated several times and then cut off completely. It acted like it was running out of fuel (I had plenty of new clean fuel that I had already been running). I took the engine cover off and noticed that the water coolant tubing was pulled back into the motor housing and I believe that the engine compartment had become partially full of water! I don't know if water got pulled into the air intake or if perhaps the electric components got wet, but it sure doesn't run now. I got a fresh tank of gas and hooked it up. Took off the air intake cover, drained the gas out of the bottom of the carbs, put in new plugs and let it sit in the sun for a couple of hours. It still wouldn't fire up. It cranks and sounds good, but no fire. It doesn't look like there was water coming out of the cylinders or the carbs when I cranked it. I tried to check the plugs for spark and it doesn't appear to have any spark. I could be wrong - this was hard for me to do with little help.

Any ideas of what may have happened with a wet engine or water in the air intake to make the eninge stop and not run now??

Thanks,
Steve
NS60A
Northern Michigan

 

[henleyhale]

Been through a similar situation recently myself, i flooded up past my carbs, got some water past the air intake, had to clean out the carbs all the fuel lines and remove the air intake manifold to soak up some water in there, my fuel lines were full of water gas and oil mix. Took a few hrs. I said 5 but i had to think

 

[henleyhale]

The fuel water mix is a grey goop.