Well, my lease is flooded, we have had copious amounts of rain lately. Driving down a flooded road that a skidder evidently drove down sometime before me. Water was all up in my lap like right now. Machine started coughing, died. I got out found the winch under the muddy water and winched the thing out. Sat scratching my head and thinking about what to do. I checked the oil to see if water was in it, no, clean and at normal level. Intake appears to have been just barely under for just a moment. Was going to dissamble breather assembly, unloaded my rack with all the lease maintenance accoutrements and then thought, I will try and start it. Turned it over and it acted like it wanted to start, like it had bad gas, (it did, water in the gas). Kept turning it over, it coughed a few times and started up. I went ahead and drove it for about 4 more hours while working around the lease, and it ran very rough for about the first two hours and then smoothed on out like nothing happened. My question is, what now, do I need to do anything to it? I am going to take the air filter out tomorrow and clean it and the housing. What else should I do. Never thought I wanted a snorkel until today. Also, I believe if I had a little taller, and more aggressive tires other than the stocks, I would probably have pulled right through the hole. After it died and we got out to winch it to dry land, it climbed on top of over a foot of mud. Nasty place.
