85 250es submerged, I hope.

[tri again]

Flood waters came up within hours and I know there's a 250 out there.

Too bad I didn't leave a dune flag on it since the water is over the h bars.

Wondering if they really float enough to flip over and float away?

Next q is probably gonna answer itself but what should I do if it's
still there other than oil, gear oil and gas change?

Any chance the water stayed out of the crankcase?
If it got to the top of the piston through the exhaust or carb, unless it was at TDC with both valves closed...idk.

I guess we'll see if it's even still there.

I'd post a pic, but it's just water with ripples on top.

[ezmoney1979]

So you just leave three wheelers laying around your property near live streams? Weird...........

[C.J]

How wel it floats depends on what tires were on it and how much air was in them... youd be all ok if it had some holey old bubble tires what only hold air for a ride. but yea youre right, change all the fluids, pull the plug out, turn it over a while to flus the water out the cylinder then start flushing it out with deisel. gotta be real careful when using the deisel though. I hope shes still there man.... if not start going down stream looking for it in trees, under logs, all over the place.

[fabiodriven]

You know what to do doc. The water will be in everything. They float upside down.

[dustrunner]

hope you find it ... wow

[tri again]

So you just leave three wheelers laying around your property near live streams? Weird...........

awww, the *&^%$ was hitting the fan and the whole town was sinking.
By the time I got home, it was over.
No one has ever seen it flood like that with the first storm.

Yeah, we were gonna go back the 'next' day and figure out how to rescue it.

[ezmoney1979]

awww, the *&^%$ was hitting the fan and the whole town was sinking.
By the time I got home, it was over.
No one has ever seen it flood like that with the first storm.

Yeah, we were gonna go back the 'next' day and figure out why it died.
I must say that was quite the rain storm, been a while since I've seen it rain that hard.

[tri again]

You know what to do doc. The water will be in everything. They float upside down.

I saw a pic of one that went through the ice, rolled upside down and could see 3 tires and the skid plate but coudn't tell if it was sitting on the bottom of held up by the ice.

[fabiodriven]

Haha, yup. That was Dirtcrasher's 350X. It wasn't on the bottom, it was indeed floating.

[Dirtcrasher]

Yep, 1st time I met all the guys. Best day ever.

Now they know I'm nuts anyhow.....

http://i257.photobucket.com/albums/hh220/Dirtcrasher/P1000154jpgHondaSubmarine.jpg

[midsouthtrikes]

I bet that wasn't fun to fish out!

[Howdy]

Yep, 1st time I met all the guys. Best day ever.

Now they know I'm nuts anyhow.....

http://i257.photobucket.com/albums/hh220/Dirtcrasher/P1000154jpgHondaSubmarine.jpg

Ya lose it in the water, ya lose it in the woods. hmmm, remind me to not loan you a machine unless I have a GPS tracking device on it. LMAO Just busting you chops Steve.


Yes, 250sx's will float upside down. Good luck finding it if it floated away. They had one quad go through the ice on our lake and they found it 9-10 weeks later when the ice melted. It was about 4-5 miles from where it went in.
Howdy

[swampthang]

Alot of the smaller machines will float with out a rider on them right side up safely. The bigger machines 250es, sx, sport machines float... but upside down. I know from experience as well. me and a friend were attempting to float our 250es acrossed chest deep water pushing them as we walked beside them. The 185s and 200s floated right acrossed my buddies 250 rolled upside down and as I was laughin my butt off at him mine got away from me and rolled over as well. They are pretty tough machines just drain all the fluids and flush everything out good and they usually fire back up with alittle work and luck.

I did here of a guy that had a 3wheeler in his back yard that got swept away by flood water and they found it a few miles away stuck under the bridge railing on the next road over. Still runs to this day.

[tri again]

I must say that was quite the rain storm, been a while since I've seen it rain that hard.

They said 5 to 10 inches of rain at Gold Beach, southern Oregon.

I wonder how many trikes went awol in Katrina and Sandy.

Never thought they'd ever need boat anchors as a safety feature.

I lock mine all together so they'd probably all disappear into the same vortex.

[Justin200x]

I had my 86 x go threw a flood. It was a epic flood last year in pa. My wheeler floated around a 1/2 mile down stream then was hanging 30 ft in the tree tops. Ounce it fell out after water receded I simplynletnit sit for awhil than pulled plugs kicked all the water out. Put a new p,ug in an it fired right up. Oh gas tank needed drained first. But it faired out well.

[Dirtcrasher]

Ya lose it in the water, ya lose it in the woods. hmmm, remind me to not loan you a machine unless I have a GPS tracking device on it. LMAO Just busting you chops Steve.



It's only happened a few times :lol: :beer !!

[captainweezy]

[QUOTE=tri again;1173073]They said 5 to 10 inches of rain at Gold Beach, southern Oregon.

I wonder how many trikes went awol in Katrina and Sandy.

Never thought they'd ever need boat anchors as a safety feature.

If only they had trailpro's on it.

[tri again]

Hope the pix come thru.

I will try to take pix every few hrs until the 250 es
unveils itself.

Love the geese.

Trikes apparently work well as decoys.

Keep 'em hidden and away from that much water.

[tri again]

PS - The rowboat made a great trailer to deliver groceries to the swamped neighbor.

Notice I didn't put that away properly either.
Gets dark so blasted fast these days.

See that flat tire pointing up?

We'll see what it looks like in the morning.

I promise to post fresh morning pix of the sequence.

I hope the airbox lid didn't float away.
or the side covers

[kb0nly]

Wow... Keep us updated. Takes a lot to kill a Honda though, flush and fill and i bet it will run again.

[userj8670]

Well I never had my 3 wheeler lost to a flood but i did sink the ol girl in the pond out back. Got the backhoe to pull it out (all sand) and when i got it back to the barn i changed the oil (all white) all the fluids etc and the oil filter*** i flushed out the crankcase with kerosene a number of times then put oil in it with a new filter, ran it for 10 min at idle then changed oil again. then new oil and filter, putte'd around for 15 then drained again and repeated til it came out clean. It might be a little excessive but i have to much money in my machines to eff around and take short cuts.