Sorry to hear about you delima...
You need to drain all fluids and inspect the fluids
for water intrusion. Crank case, tranny and rear axle
should be flushed with solvent. If you think the
master cylinder wasn't in the drink, you might get by
with just inspecting under the cap. Maybe suck out
most of the fluid with a syringe and top it off.
Pull the plugs and turn over the engine to expel water
from the cylinders, put alcohol in the cylinders and
turn over again, WD-40 in cylinders and turn over
again.
If the carb is well sealed, you can probably just turn
the key to turn on the fuel pump and pump the
accelerator to flush gas through.
Drain the gas tank. Rinse it out with water and drain
it. Put a gallon of alcohol in and shake it up, dump
it out, air it out for days or hours with compressed
air flowing into it, fill with gas, disconnect at the
fuel filter and run the pump.
Between dirt bikes and Jeeps, I've been through this
several times myself... sux :0
http://www.film.queensu.ca/CJ3B/Tech/Lube.html#Water
jon
--- Chris Rose <chris_rose@totalise.co.uk> wrote:
> Hi All
>
> Bad news to report, and some advice needed.
>
> Some of you may have seen the news reports about
> extensive flooding in the
> South East of England. Anyway, my 1963 MGB Roadster
> was in for a service at a
> MG specialist garage last week, unfortunately based
> in Uckfield.
>
> I had been abroad during the week and went over
> Saturday morning to supposedly
> collect the car after its repairs, and take it to
> the MOT centre for a
> re-test.
>
> Well, sadly that was not to be. Wednesday
> night/Thursday morning, the river
> Uck burst it banks, and its probably fair to say
> that my poor car was
> basically left stranded in about 4 feet of sewage
> polluted water for about 36
> hours.
>
> I took some digital pics of the car when I got
> there, but don't have the
> ability to post them up on the web from work, but if
> you can imagine a
> beautiful looking red and chrome car, with tell tale
> leaves and debris in the
> front grill, and then opening the doors to find a
> brown scum all over the
> entire car, up to about half way up the back of the
> seats, then you have some
> idea. The boot was full of water, and it was even
> deep enough to seep in
> through the air filter, so the engine is probably
> shot as well.
>
> Needless to say, i am completely gutted, not least
> as the car belonged to my
> dad before me and has been in the family 20 years!
>
> The only real plus side of the whole sorry affair is
> the fact that the car was
> in the garage and is therefore covered by their
> insurance.
>
> I felt so sorry for the garage owner as well, my MG
> was one of 7 B's parked
> outside and completely ruined, inside his warehouse,
> everything had been under
> a couple of feet of water, including all the cars in
> there (a couple more B's
> (including one which, by the looks of it, had JUST
> been re-upholstered all
> through, the seats were so new they didn't even have
> the covers off!))and a
> couple of MGA's as well.
>
> I guess I'm posting this partly as I hope some of
> you might be able to
> sympathise with how my weekend went seeing as this
> was the first thing I did
> in it, and also to ask if there is anyone out there
> who has any experience of
> re-building a car that has been flooded.
>
> I understand that the insurance company will pay,
> and the the chap at the
> garage (who is a specialist MG place and so should
> know the right things to
> do) will arrange for repairs, but I'd like to know
> what I should be making
> sure they have checked before accepting the car
> back, if you see what I mean.
>
> I am assuming as the water was sewage contaminated
> that cleaning the carpets
> isn't really an option and the seats which were
> virtually new, are ruined, but
> what else should be checked? Gearbox obviously,
> engine will need checking and
> drying out, the boot, the brakes and other stuff,
> horn would have been under
> water, as will most of the lights, the tonneau that
> goes over the car when the
> hood is down to keep stuff out was in the back of
> the car, and still had
> puddles in it, all my tools were in the boot, the
> spare wheel, even the
> speaker for the stereo (well, mono, actually!) would
> have been submerged.
>
> My dad says that when he rebuilt the car he wax
> oiled the shassis, and so I'm
> hoping that may have done some good, is it something
> worth trying to do again
> as part of the cleaning up/drying out process?
>
> Basically, i want to try and get a check list
> written down of things you all
> think should be checked on the car, and then make
> sure that I cross reference
> that with the work that the insurance repairer will
> do on the car.
>
> Any advice or comments very much appreciated.
>
> Many thanks
>
> Chris
>
> 1963 MGB Roadster Submersible :(
>
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