With what history you have discovered, it’s now very clear that this boat was abused, then abandoned. The owners since the abandonment were flakes with dreams and no means to perform any boat maintenance. It will surprise me if the toilets work.
I only have a little bit more time before I have to leave and I'll be gone for a couple of weeks so I'm spraying lubricant into all of the cylinders but my main goal is I've got to get the water out of these two cylinders that are wet and make sure that they don't just rust into a complete ball in the next two weeks while I'm gone anybody got any suggestions on how to get the water out without being able to turn the engine over
Just because somebody buys a cheap repo boat with the intent to live on the water never intending to drive the boat or do anything with it that we would consider boating doesn't make them flakes with dreams
I can not imagine a couple of weeks would make a difference on an engine that has been wet for at least a couple of years. Sort of 'closing barn door after horse is gone.'I was able to get most of the liquid out of the two flooded cylinders but there's still some residue in there obviously any recommendations on what I could put in there that would prevent it from going really bad in the next couple of weeks would you just fill the cylinder with WD-40 or like RV antifreeze to prevent corrosion or should I flood the cylinder with rubbing alcohol and try and get it to dry out I really don't want to come back in 2 weeks and find out that it's worse than the one I started
I can not imagine a couple of weeks would make a difference on an engine that has been wet for at least a couple of years. Sort of 'closing barn door after horse is gone.'
Any ideas on how both engines ingested water? Seems a remarkable coincidence.
Peter
If you post the type of boat, model year, etc, someone with experience with that boat's factory equipment may have more info on the exhaust, and how the water may have gotten into the engine. Best of luck with the project!
Too bad everyone is now a technician, even DIY, hard to separate out a real old school mechanic.
Sunbow, I would never be comfortable removing salt water from the bores of a
boat engine, spraying in something else and then running it with an expectation
that I had remedied anything.
That engine will never be trustworthy until it is correctly returned to its original
condition. The parts that have been in contact with salt water must be redone.