Who would have thought there would be a hole that deep on that dirt super highway down in the Aucilla River Management area in North FL. 3 feet to the left it's less than a foot deep. I passed at least 8-9 4wheel drives getting there, but I get stuck and not another vehicle passes by for 3 hours, and it is a two wheel drive. Another 2 hours before someone pulls me out. Then 3 hours waiting on the flatbed to get me home. Would have never got stuck with some decent tires. Dang street tires no traction at all to get over the lip of that hole. Just spinning away.

Truck cranked up after being pulled out. I shut it down right after though. Just a small amount of water in oil, but the gas tank filled up with water. Fortunately the air box stayed dry.

Water in the gas tank has become a major ordeal though. I can run the truck with starter fluid, and I disconnected the fuel lines up front. It is pumping the water out but will take forever at that pace. So I have rigged up a fuel pump and connected it to the line with hopes of it pumping out the rest of the water with it.

Cool story man, makes you wanna say "maggot sauce"....

Uh, there's a drain plug in the tank. Let the truck sit and settle, and make sure it's level, or at least that the drain is at the low point, and pull the plug (you're supposed to use a new copper crush gasket each time) and let the water drain until the gas is water free, or just drain all of it. Crank the motor with both fuel lines removed from the carb until the lines are dry. Replace the fuel lines, but you can keep the line from filter to pump free to prime the fuel pump out of a jar with the coil wire shorted to ground. Go to the drugstore and buy a bottle of isopropyl rubbing alcohol and pour it in the plugged tank. Add at least 5gal of gas. Crank that baby up. You may have to prime the fuel pump twice, but not likely. Also, after the fuel pump is primed, pump the accel pedal until the accel pump in the primary barrel is squirting gas, not water, to flush the carb bowl, then reprime the fuel pump to refill the bowl.

The rubbing alky adsorbs the remainin water (the drain plug has a short rim around it that makes it impossible to completely drain the tank) and then it gets burned up/evaporated and goes out the tail pipe without leaning out the mixture like a water/gas mix will. "Heet" and other fuel additives to prevent fuel line icing by "drying" up the water are mostly alky of some kind. I have used a wet/dry vac with a hook bent piece of 1/4" copper to vac out the remaining water, but if there is any fuel in it, you could go boom from motor brush sparks. In your case, it's almost certainly almost all water, and "safe". It's your <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/butwiggle.gif" alt="" />.

Actually my rigged up fuel pump worked. I pulled a five gallon bucket of water/gas till it was pretty much 100% gas coming out. This one is the 2000 model Eddie. No carb and I'm not sure there is a plug you can get to on the fuel tank without yanking it.

Reconnected fuel lines and she fired off. Ran a little rough till she warmed up then OK. The gas left in is contaminated I think so it has a slight miss on idle. Gonna give that rubbing alcohol remedy a try. See if that smooths it out. Still got half a tank of gas in it so it will be a while to burn that out and put some fresh non ethanol in it.

Had to pump it down completely. Even still with all new gas if I go up a steep incline or turn it gets some water in the line and shuts down with me.

I'm close though.

Played in the water a little bit today with the LandRaider. thirty sixes help a bunch.

jealous

small part of Hardrock Scott. Tell us a good date for you to go, we'll set up a meet.

Put in a bottle of that HEET stuff from WallMart Sunday. Drove it around a little and it started cutting out when I got on the gas. Made it back to the house just barely. Noticed some smoke coming out of the hood area so shut her down. After popping hood and looking around only thing I saw was exhaust cat right below motor looked like steam was coming off of it. Sucker must have got clogged up with that stuff and got hot as a pistol ball.

Anyway it fired off and ran OK this evening just idling around the yard. Did notice some steam from tailpipe when I first cranked it up.

Also seems starter relay has gone south. Takes 2-3 twists on the key to get her to turn over. This boghole experience has cost me time and money. <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/frown.gif" alt="" />

Final Tally 1200 bucks. All three cats, gas tank cleanout(took 3 times to get the dirt out) Fuel pump & filter. Oh yea starter too.