Went on a little ride last night and the worst happened. I was trying to take it easy (Dont want to break anything) and we came up to a deep water crossing (beaver pond). Well there were 4 of us and one was already accross and another right in front of me and one behind me. Iwasnt really wanting to make the trip through but I figured I would just set on the ice chest and "float" the front end like I always do. Everything was going as planned and when I went to get the front end up the bike cut out for a second and thats all it took, She sank like the Titanic. After about thirty minutes of work we finally got it out of the water and on to dry land. We drained what seemed like a gallon of water out of the airbox, and when i checked the oil, water came out!!!. Well there was no driving the bear out so we towed her home.
I got it up here to my shop this morning and I have begun the "clean out" process and I just figured I would share what I done to get it back to life again and let some other people that have drowned theres out share what they did.

1st. Drained the airbox and removed the filter
2nd. Drained all the oil (and water mix) out
3rd. Removed the spark plug
4th. Drained the carb out
5th. After all the oil was out I put 1 fresh quart back in.
6th. I started to "pump" the cyclinder with only one quart in the motor and with out the spark plug in so it would blow any water out of the topend.
7th. I drained that 1 quart of oil out (which looks terrible) and filled it back up with the correct amount
8th. Put in a new spark plug
9th. Put on a new air filter and re-installed the lid.
10th. Hit the starter and back to life she came!!
11th. let it run for a few minutes and kill it (repeat 4 or 5 times)
12th. Drain oil again and re-fill
13th. repeat step 11
14th. Drain oil once more and refill and change oil filter
15th. She is alive again and running good!!

I havent gotton to the front and rear Diff's yet so I will post the best way to flush them out after i go through the process. To anyone that has never drown there bike out before, never try to start it while it is still in the water, if there is water in the oil, do not try to start it at all untill you have gone through something similar to this system.
And to give everyone an Idea of the water level. My bear measures 40 inches at the rack. My fog lights measure 42 inches, and the water was about 3 inches over that. It was a very bad Idea on my part and Now I remember why I do not like going through water.

 

The only other thing I did when I submerdged my 99TJ (other than dry out the seats and carpet) was to take every electrical connector I could find apart and clean them with alcohol and coat the contacts with electrical grease.

 

Man thats great you did not have any permanent damage. I will print this out foor future reference incase something like that happens to me. Since I have a little experience with jetski and have flooded mine out a few times one thing that might save you a little money on oil for next time.

Yamalube or Seadoo lube (can looks like tall WD-40 can

after you drain the oil out and take spark plug out. You might shoot a can of that lube down in there in the head down in the cylinder for the first rough cleanout.