Susuki DF 6 dunked what now.

[CliveF]

As title, small open boat swamped in storm, no one aboard, engine recovered flushed very thoroughly with fresh water . Carb flushed , cleaned, dewatered and thoroughly oiled.
Plug out engine tipped filled with oil and turned over vary slowly several times then drained. Sump oil checked out and no contamination.
Left in a cool workshop with cool fan blowing across it for 2 days, then several days outside in draft and winter sun to thoroughly dry out.

New fuel , good prime and steady pulls. Not a glimmer of life.
I suspect the CDI pack, though supposedly potted and fully water proof, is fritzed.
Its out of my reach in Norway and has probably been sitting to long now ( 4 months ) despite the above recovery work to ever work again.

Just wondered on peoples thoughts and If it is worth taking a CDI pack over.

This is all the info I can give as my aide at the other end in not really mechanically sound so I have had to do everything remote in great detail to get this far.
Any more in depth is not possible at that end.
Thought I would ask ready for when I am over as I will try it myself but don't expect to be successful. i suspect It will be going to spares / repairs or scrap.

thanks in advance

 

[jointventureII]

The only experience I have of this is our old tender flipping over on the mooring, with the 2hp Mariner attached. We sprayed WD40 into the cylinder through the spark plug hole whilst pulling the cord, until the entire can was finished. Plug back in and it started immediately, but that was 2 stroke and all the electronics were contained in a small sealed box.

Seems to me like it must be the CDI

 

[Mark-1]

As title, small open boat swamped in storm, no one aboard, engine recovered flushed very thoroughly with fresh water . Carb flushed , cleaned, dewatered and thoroughly oiled.
Plug out engine tipped filled with oil and turned over vary slowly several times then drained. Sump oil checked out and no contamination.
Left in a cool workshop with cool fan blowing across it for 2 days, then several days outside in draft and winter sun to thoroughly dry out.

New fuel , good prime and steady pulls. Not a glimmer of life.
I suspect the CDI pack, though supposedly potted and fully water proof, is fritzed.
Its out of my reach in Norway and has probably been sitting to long now ( 4 months ) despite the above recovery work to ever work again.

Just wondered on peoples thoughts and If it is worth taking a CDI pack over.

This is all the info I can give as my aide at the other end in not really mechanically sound so I have had to do everything remote in great detail to get this far.
Any more in depth is not possible at that end.
Thought I would ask ready for when I am over as I will try it myself but don't expect to be successful. i suspect It will be going to spares / repairs or scrap.

thanks in advance

I dunno, but if you can souce a cheap used CDI unit, surely it's worth a try?

 

[DownWest]

Had this happen to a new Merc 3.5 4T.
We recovered the boat and engine, but it was a Saturday and no agents open. Likely if we waited until the monday, it would have been ruined by the seawater, so I stripped it. Crankcase was half full of water.....
Cleaned all components and dowsed in DW40.
Reassembled and ran fine.
The ins co agreed that waiting for the service agent would have cost them a new engine and they paid for the gaskets and a bit of time.

 

[SC35]

Electrical system looks pretty simple.

Are you sure you have no spark?
Spark plug removed and end on block while turning over would confirm.

Kill cord switch okay?

 

[snowbird30ds]

Has the plug cap and rubber covers been removed and fully dried?
And the obvious question, is the kill cord in place, easy to forget when off the boat.

 

[CliveF]

Ill check with my mate about the kill cord, he could definitely have forgotten that.
The rest will be down to me.
I have an in line spark checker.
I will look up CDI costs as well.

Thank you for your replies.