water damage ?

[Fifer13]

Hi

 

new member here and my first post so hello all !

 

I recently got flooded out and my ryobi chainsaw was underwater for maybe half a day. I partially stripped it down, dried out and put back together. After a bit faffing new fuel/spark and some carb cleaner i got it to fire up and it now starts okay, quickly settling down to a steady idle. My question is this - should i be concerned about water ingress to main bearings and motor ? Will the bearings run dry or are the motor casings watertight ? Its a cheap chainsaw and i really don't want to tear it down (might not go back together again)

anyways - any advice most welcome

 

stu

[wrsni]

Well all things being equal you'd strip it down and check but then you don't want to do that.

 

My notion would be that it can't be too bad or you'd have some water coming up through the transfers from the bottom end which would affect the spark and make it run badly so if it's running 100% it would be a fair assumption that most of the water is out.

 

You could maybe run a couple of tanks of petrol through it at double the normal oil ratio to re-establish a good coating on the main and big end bearings and see how it goes from there.

[kev_s]

let it idle for a while to get it hot and stay hot. that should with a bit of luck dry it out completely.

 

Shelby runs his saw in the water!

 

[Bearded Munch]

We dropped a Stihl 260 in a canal once, got it out straight away and it started straight away too and lived for many years after.

[Stubby]

let it idle for a while to get it hot and stay hot. that should with a bit of luck dry it out completely.

 

Shelby runs his saw in the water!

 

 

One of Shelbys lines is " We godda git ourseffs in da wowta ! "

[H-A]

It will be fine, I have had a couple of outboards go for a swim, remove plug pull it over until no more water comes out.

 

Run it for a good bit get it nice and hot, spray with WD40 before you put it up on a shelf not on the floor:biggrin:

 

H-A

[onyx landscaping/fencing]

wd40 is a de-greaser

[GardenKit]

wd40 is a de-greaser

But not a very good one!

[onyx landscaping/fencing]

it may not be a good one but it is great at destroying moving parts

[doobin]

WD 40 is cr@p. I recently had the misfortune to try their 'contact cleaner' as the excellent Comma varient is sadly no longer made.

 

It's that good a solvent that it just smudged the writing on the whiteboard when I went to clean it.

 

Hiding behind the name. Just like Draper and Dewalt