Probably something additional worth mentioning Steve. The copper wound stator under the flywheel will have salt water in it that gets wicked right into the winding by surface tension. If it's not replaced and corrodes over time it will create a no start, no run situation just out of the blue one day. If you take the flywheel off and remove the stator winding you can then use WD40 etc to soak it in liquid WD40 for 24 hours to displace all the salt and water. it will dry out with heat when you run the OB - but you don't want the salt left behind in it to create hard to diagnose problems later down the track. A new stator and if it has one a lighting coil are pretty cheap to buy and replace so worth doing. It it was a Merc it would also have coil packs for each cylinder for the loop charged stating system - same deal eithger get them clean of salt or replace for longevity sake. Basically electrickery and salty water just don't get along well. CRC put out a electrical contacts spray cleaner that again would be worth a go in all the electronics / connections. Sure thing getting all the mechanicals protected from corrosion is important & you covered that well - but corroded electronics like stator (some of the older evinrudes etc had points sets under the flywheel as well) will certainly leave you stranded at the worst possible time at sea!. If you ever remake this vid - add a little more about the importance of electrics after a dunking in salt water. All in all a great effort for those who find themselves in need. Cheers & cold beers from me, big ears!

Currently on my honeymoon in the Bahamas. Dingy got flipped and engine submerged. Filled this and got it running. Seriously this save my entire trip!

One of the main advantages of owning a 2 stroke instead of a 4 stroke - if it gets drowned - you still have a very good chance of getting it running again.

Did this with all of my power equipment after hurricane sandy. Two backpack blowers, two snow throwers, a lawn mower, a weed wacker and two big power washers. Rinse them in fresh water. Change oil, drain carbs and fuel, plugs out, purge cylinders and lube with oil. One by one they all started and ran. All good to this day.

I flipped a new 2001 , 2 stroke 6hp merc in a freshwater lake. Got the boat upright with the motor. It started right up . Ran it about an hour to dry everything out. Has been running fine to this day. Saltwater immersion a whole different story.

I followed your steps right up to the point you said take the motor to a Yamaha dealer. You never said a "Yamaha outboard motor dealer", boy were those people at the music store pissed when I drug my motor into the showroom.

A few years ago i lost my old inherited 2hp Yamaha for 1,5 years at the bottom of a lake(sweet-water, community drinking water) when my boat got loose after a big storm(the short version), a fellow found it a meter under the waterline and brought it back to his place, how it ended back quickly in my possession is a funny story, but not for now. Anyhow; Removed the covers and cleaned all the gunk that got in there, this has a built-in tank and i am very cautious to close the venting after every run so no water had gotten in that way (and no gasoline out). removed the spark plug a yanked the starter-rope to get water out of the cylinder, there was none. checked the spark and it was good, put everything together again and it started on the first pull with the original gas, and have worked since... Japan makes creepy good machines. The boat however, that the motor sat on, was never found again...

I seen a fellow let his boat sink tied up to the dock during a huge rain storm one nite ! Motor and all ! It was in fresh water ! he removed the spark plugs oiled the cylinders reinstalled the plugs ! He sprayed fuel in the carbs and fired it up ! He run that motor for years ! this was a 25 yammie 2 stroke ! I have owned 2 25 yammies ! I love them ! too bad they are no longer for sale !

my remedy for drowned motor when i was about 10 years old , yell daddy daddy daddy , point to water behind boat n say motor motor motor , watch daddy swim down n save drowned motor , sneak up stairs n eat cookies n watch cartoons until you hear motor running agin (about 1 - 1.5 hours) , get in boat and continue on days adventures.

This happened to my 2004 Corolla once, was parked in an underground parking garage, a hurricane happened and the garage was flooded to 2 feet deep.A week later the water receded and I let everything dry first, then changed the oil and spark plugs and it started right up, drove it for 7 more years until it got rear ended

I,ve watched a few of these submerged outboard videos, cant believe not one of them have removed the flywheel

Thank You for this video! This is very interesting and very informative for me!

this is great advice but if one thing i would of added is to make sure the engine kill switch is disconnected before pull the pull start with plugs out... Reason for this as i have learnt from 26 years racing powerboats and a mechanic is that the spark or electricity always take shortest path and the coil pack being closest to the earth (engine block) and forms a crack cause it is the shortest path and this unknown to the owner and causes engine to misfire and running rough intermittently and dont ever find the fault.

lol my merc fell in the water, had no red line attached to it, i managed to get it up. and try'ed to start it. it started in 4 pulls and ran great. merc for life

A 6hp with 2 cilinders? Damn awesome

What if you drop it into the Ohio river? Polluted with all that c8 from the Dupont plant, the stuff they use to make teflon. Wouldn't that like, extend the life of the motor? No rust could ever stick to it.

Watches this video after my motor popped off the transom and fell in the bay and I pulled it out by the electrical cables. I followed the steps and the engine actually started. I couldn’t believe it.

Growing up we had a 84 jet ski that sank twice in fresh water! Removed the plugs and tapped the starter until no more water sprayed out of the plug holes. Then prime with a little premix; reinstall plug, boom on your way!! SIMPLE

i was going about 30 on the Mississippi river and took a left turn and the motor came of the transom pulled it out of the water put it back on and it ran just fine i still got it and it runs now and that was a year ago

This is foremost a first-world-problem. if you read this, that means that you have internet access, if you can´t figure out your fix, that means you spelled a word somewhere wrong in you´re search-query... or you keep clicking at stupid ads that will get you nowhere.

Wow, look at all those Yammy 15 2 strokes at the beginning! One of the best motors Yamaha ever made, and nearly impossible to find in the USA anymore......

Just load it up with Kerosene through the spark plug holes. Those cylinders would not havr bren completely covered in oil at all. Only one side because you never turned the motor around. Just had it laying on one side. Kero has oil in it even diesel will do and much tbinner then oil alone so gets past the rings faster and into the crank case. A good motor should have a sump plug with easy access to drain anything out.

Yamaha this is strong in the sea 💪💪💪

We are going to recover a 2018 200hp yamaha in a couple days. It's been in brackish water for a month now. Wish is luck.

I had one that stayed under water for over a year. When it comes out of the water that’s when the damage starts. Mine got flushed out and ran like a champ.

would love to see these guys man handle 200-300hp like they did would with go cart motor.

I drowned my outboard after flipping the tinnie and didn’t have safety lanyard on and outboard was running when under salt water, I used methylated spirits two litres straight into both pots cranked it slowly then drained and I put around two litres of two stroke oil in both pots then cranked then I ran a higher oil to petrol mix then idle it to temperature then give her some revs underload in a tank Started the outboard the other day after a few months of not useing and started and ran fine

Sure, with a 2-stroke. However, if a 4-stroke fell in the drink while it was running, you're more than likely screwed. It would need head work done and all.

ive done all the tips and my motor is not starting and i dont have the money to get it serviced. do you know what they did at the shop?

I am very sad that Yamaha doesn’t make 2 strokes anymore.

i wonder who ended up buying that outboard and dosn't know what happened

*Drops motor on purpose* "Of course you wouldn't do this on purpose unless you were a complete idiot". HAHA

Wouldn't it make more sense to just remove the plugs, get the water out, then insert the plugs again and let it run for awhile?

You didn't show how you fixed the crankshaft.

Wow thank you! My poor drowned outboard-torrential rain followed by bilge pump failure, at least she sank in her slip, but it's salt water :(

Thanks

Step 1: Don't drop outboard into water in the first place.

Hello ! Was out on the water for an hr no issues with this engine. I stopped it for 25 mins and went to start again and it wouldn't. It's my first outboard and didn't know you have to put the throttle on a certain a position and then pull the rope, I have been pulling the rope without throttle on set position and It has always taken me 7 pulls or more to start it so I think I flooded the motor. How do I de flood? is there such a thing? I tried putting throttle all the way open and choke closed to possibly deflood and cranked it ten to fifteen times and then tried with throttle on the start position to crank but have had no luck starting, tried also with choke on for a few strokes with no luck either. Could I have fouled up the spark plug?

It's a simple little w stroke try it on new big motor

Well done - Fine!

Is it the same for a 4 strokes engine?

Worth knowing 👍

TAKE TO THE DEALER ,FOR WHAT EVEN MY DOG CAN FLUSH THE MOTOR AND TAKE THE WATER OUT

I would love to see a video of how to desarm a yamaha motor

I was training with the boat crew in Wales and I was cruising on a zodiac milpro Surf Rescue boat with a zodiac milpro 30 hp and next to me my friend in a arancia Surf Rescue boat and with a mercury 25 hp and then his motor just fell off.. we had to tow him back to shore. I laughed so fucking hard

Bet they sold that for 7 grand afterwards

Comment l'avoir au RF.Congo Kinshasa et prix ?

What if I drop a 2 stroke in fresh water?

Unfortunately in the states we don’t have too many dealerships that we can run to on the fly. The majority of boat owners here shouldn’t even own a boat. They run them till they wreck them lol

Yamaha 9 and 15 are the best dogs bullocks

Mantap..

how would you know Kris Kross aren't you supposed to be sailing

Starlo has lost a bit of weight!

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Nocreo por q el motor tiene agua el carbulador. Tiene q desbarartar

He’s like mad max but a little younger

It YAMAHA Made in Japan ?

Never saw a beautiful yamaha motor??

Gee they sure do spell "flywheel" funny down under...

and now a running engine

I just threw my new outboard in the water to try this but the water was 239 ft deep I Found out lately

At speed...any motor can ingest water and "shorten" a connecting rod .

My marina started up straight away 2nd pull from a capsize

i'm sure anyone owning an outboard cannot be used again if that happened and somehow needed to replace

Sh8t happens,and sometimes wrecks arn't predictable!

Diesel the engine soon as it`s out till refired up again .

hi 6HP engine in price

None of this will work without step #5, which they miss... #5 - sell motor Asap. Lol!

within the first 30 sec did he just call himself a complete idiot hmmm lmao

Bream do live in salt water, mate

WD-40 is a shit lubricant BUT it was developed to displace water.. Hence it's name Water Displacer 40. Point is.. it will displace water from the Ignition wires .. do your best to dry them in the field.. then use the WD-40 on the plug wires. Use Real Oil in your cylinders ! Rinse and dry all your electrical connections, then use electronic contact cleaner on each one.

Two stroke only....

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Hilarious. Most if not all motors that fall in the water are running and would injest quite a bit of water. Lets see, drain water, change oil and air filter, crank.

It will fire right up after 20 minutes of work.

sing it a song

My engine doesn't have spawk plugs.

Bus Yamaha 40 engine have your I am Bangladeshi your countries name

What a load of crap, putting a shed load of oil down the plug holes without then trying to get most of the oil out is a good way of hydrahydraulic-ing the motor up and bending the conrods. You need to get most of that oil out before refitting the spark plugs.

The auzzies i know would just pour fosters in there n then throw it back in the sea when it wouldnt start

Internal combustion engine not motor

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Alo papci, ovo nisu dva ista motora, ovaj potopljeni nema malu nalepnicu na kapi a ovaj upaljen ima. Nije tek tako ocistiti motor od vode, ima tu malo vise posla ali reklama im nije losa.

2 strokes can be salvaged and work great again. But four strokes that's another story.

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@MrKayakFisho :)

if it was a mercury it would of been fine ;)

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salt water BREAM WTF??

1:15 haha @thatboatguy did it on purpose

Just put it in a garbage can full of rice

good luck lifting my engine like that.. HAHAHA! you need a strong man or a crane.. Dry weight my engine weigh 50 kilograms, with water inside it weighs much much more, so what you do from the start is a FAIL!... take off the cover first!.. if the engine is full of water it will be like 20 kilo less in weight without the water in the housing.. You guys are Americans.. amateurs.. you can make guns and stuff but watching you save an engine make me cry. YOU ARE DOING IT ALL WRONG!!