I swamped my H1 today and now it wont start, any ideas?
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when someone around here drowns there bike, we flip it up on the rear. (pick the front end up till it rests on the rear rack) hold the throttle wide open then start it up. it never fails. but of course the bike wont run right for a while ,till everthing dries out but it seems to work. make sure your oil is not a milky white. if it is,change it. also make sure the air filter is dry. if this dont work,sorry!

 

Probably water got into the air intake system. Take the air box top off and the air filter. Standing a 4 stroke on end and starting it will give you one thing, shot bearings as the oil pickup will be out of the oil. It's fine to do this with 2 strokes, but the 4 strokes are a different animal. Pull the spark plug and dry it. Crank the engine with the plug out and blow the water out of the cylinder. Check for spark while you are at it. Doe change the oil and filter if it is milky.

 

I would drain the Carberator bowl as well. They don't run very well with water in the gas.

 

i tried all that and still, it wont run

 

never thought about that bear(standing the 4 stroke on end) , good call. learn new things everyday!

 

Here is a lst of things to do after swamping.( just did my H on the weekend)

1-stand up to drain water from exhaust/top of cylinder DO NOT START
2- pull out sparkplug ans turn ovcre to get water out of top of head ( probably why yours doesn't start)
3- unscrew phillips drain screw on bottom of carb to drain bowl
4- check for water in airbox and filter
5- pull drainplug on bottom of belt case to drain if nessesary

She should fire right up after that. It is important not to try and start until these things are done. If you did and the oil is milky you will have to change oil/ run for a couple minutes, change oil/ run for a couple etc. ( maybe 6 or 7 oil changes till its clean) If it sputters after you have done this and everything else is fine, probably your plug is fouled. Good luck!

 

good to know all this now. i just bet my friend i could make it accross a small pond. its small,but deep! tomarrow i get to do everything on the list cattman suggested. oh, my lesson is learned, always let someone else go first. thanks

 

I sunk mine a few times also. All very good ideas. This worked on mine: When you remove the carb bowl drain plug, crank it a few times to push whatever remaining water out of carb. Then pull the spark plug and hold aginst a ground to check for spark. If you have good spark and good gas, should fire right up. Now snorkle it. Stock air intake is in horriable location. An easy way to snorkle it is to disconnect and remove the hose that connects front air box to air box under glove box. Run a piece of flex hose or pvc 90 degree elbow up from filter air box to compartment under glove box. run it just as high as the stock tranny intake and exhaust. Very easy to install and return to stock without re jetting. Good luck.

 

also one thing to do is flip the quad on its side and get the water out of the handlbars, if you don;t they will start to rust from the inside out.