Stihl submerged in water

[flywheel044]

Yesterday I had a little emergency and I had to rescue my bridge from the fallen tree. We've got heavy rains here lately and my small river went berserk. So I had to cut the tree :greenchainsaw: lying in the water before it would came and destroy my bridge. And guess what? While I was walking in the water, I slipped and fell into water. With my Stihl 044 which totally submerged. Luckily enough it wasn't running.
Then my friend advised me to fire it at once and I did it. Without any problem.
What should I do now? Do I have to dissasemble whole chainsaw and try to dry it? I've already dried air filter, taken off the bar etc. I'm not very good mechanic myself so if there's something serious to be done I will probably have to get my chainsaw to a workshop.
I own it for two years now and I'm stihl learning .

 

[computeruser]

Glad to hear your saw made it through its swimming lesson!

Others may actually know exactly what needs to be done, but I would think that if you dried/cleaned the air filter and otherwise got the saw running and ran it enough to get up to operating temeperature, it should be fine. Everything should get dried from the heat of running the saw, so beyond that I can't think what else might need to be done.

 

[Mr.]

+1

Next time take the spark plug out, dry the airfilter out, crank like a slow monkey grinding an organ, then reinstall plug and start.

Fred

You can buy cars cheep that have taken a drink and be AOK.

Editted to add make sure ther is no water in the muffler. it could hang out in there for a while.

 

[opus]

It should be just fine. I WOULDNT have started it though, until it was drained/dried out.

I see snowmobiles in the water often....dont ask.

 

[THALL10326]

Yesterday I had a little emergency and I had to rescue my bridge from the fallen tree. We've got heavy rains here lately and my small river went berserk. So I had to cut the tree :greenchainsaw: lying in the water before it would came and destroy my bridge. And guess what? While I was walking in the water, I slipped and fell into water. With my Stihl 044 which totally submerged. Luckily enough it wasn't running.
Then my friend advised me to fire it at once and I did it. Without any problem.
What should I do now? Do I have to dissasemble whole chainsaw and try to dry it? I've already dried air filter, taken off the bar etc. I'm not very good mechanic myself so if there's something serious to be done I will probably have to get my chainsaw to a workshop.
I own it for two years now and I'm stihl learning .

No need to worry, if it started right up apparently your a fast man, you must have gotton it out of the water some kinda fast,lol. You've already dried it best you can. All you need to do is fire it back up, let it idle and warm up real good and the heat off the saw itself will dry out everything you couldn't dry by hand. Your saw will be just fine other than it cussing you for the suprized bath you gave it,lol, just messing with ya, your saw is fine, no need to worry.........

 

[sawn_penn]

If it was going to die from water in the cylinder, it would have done it on the spot.

If it had been underwater for say, an hour, I'd have pulled the airfilter off to dry, pulled the plug out, and then cranked the saw over a heap of times with the exhaust pointing straight down. I'd probably also dump the fuel and flush with fresh fuel.

But that's if the saw had been underwater an hour...

 

[RaisedByWolves]

I have a 1/4 scale R/C boat with a Shindiawa engine, it does about 45-50mph.



I wish I had a nickle for everytime it flipped and injested water at full throttle. I simply pull the plug, invert the boat and pull the cord till water stops coming out.


Fire it up and run it at high speed till warm and shut her off. Dry the radio out and Im back on the water.:hmm3grin2orange:

 

[ShoerFast]

Vids,,,, we needs vids!

It would be nice to see the video of this!

Welcome to this site! Your English is better then mine!

Just be glad that the saw was not running hot,as there would be other problems now.

Chalk another up for Stihl, they started bragging there sealed ignition, up , back in the early 80's!

If I may ask, how far are you from Czestochowa? As that is were my ancestry is from.

Kevin

 

[turnkey4099]

As it was a 'quick dunk' you should be o.k. Were it a bit longer, I would pull the chain and put in an oil bath until I was going to use it. Also clean and oil the bar. I had a chain rust up on me from just sitting out in the rain (don't loan tools!).

Harry K

 

[Bermie]

Just be thankful it wasn't salt water!!

 

[Another Bucker]

glad your saw still runs

If you had been unlucky enough to get the cylinder full of water that could have been ugly...but it started up and ran so all is well engine wise but like stated above check fuel and bar oil for water. Next time pull the spark plug and crank slowly because water doesn't compress like air and fuel...Chain, strap or winch the offending tree away from the water next time if possible. Stay safe.
Chuck

 

[Bermie]

Stihl submerged in water

If it's stihl in the water why haven't you pulled it out yet??:hmm3grin2orange:

 

[flywheel044]

Thanks!!

Welcome all
Thank you all for your answers. The saw seems to be fine, but now my conscious also is. Many thanks.
I've got no water in the muffler
> To Kevin
About 130 miles, I believe. I've been there once. Yes, and I was laughing too, until I thought of my poor saw.
> To Chuck I had to act quick. And unfortunately I've got no winch.
> To Bermie. No it's not It's stihl running