Almost drowned my blaster yesterday

I was riding across a small retention pond a couple of feet deep ( which I'd done at least a dozen times ) and I hit a deep hole and sunk. I had water coming in the tail pipe it was so deep. Luckily my 6 year old was smart enough to follow directions and I sent him back to the truck to get a strap. He backed his raptor 90 close enough that he could toss me the strap which I hooked to the back of my blaster and I could jump from my blaster to the back of his raptor holding the strap . We pulled my blaster out, and he towed me back to the truck. We loaded up, went home and I drained the tranny, pulled the spark plug and stood the blaster up on the grab bar and drained all the water out. I used the kick starter to get all the water out of the cylinder. I ran some oil thru the tranny and put the plug back in, filled it up with some oil, started it and let it idle for a few seconds, drained the fluid again and filled it up with some fresh bel ray and she was good to go. I didn't even get my feet wet ! BTW we went back and rode for almost 4 more hours.

99LRDblaster said:

For future reference, just get off the blaster if you are in that situation again. I don't know about your's but mine floats if I am off of it. At Wayne I actually took a shortcut and got off and floated it across a 3 foot deep stream in waders. Just stood beside it and pushed it across.

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I could've gotten off and pushed it out but I didn't want to get my feet wet ( call me a sissy > : 0 )

If it were summer I would've but it was pretty chilly. I would put the blaster in 1st gear and put my legs on the front fenders and ease thru the pond. I'd done this dozens of times but this time I went thru a different area ( if you look at my vids from sunday's ride I got stuck about 15 feet to the right of where my son was doing donuts in the water ) As soon as it sunk it immediately filled with water so draining it was inevidable. I had sweat pants on under my jeans and I just didn't feel like getting wet especially since it was only 50 degrees . Yeah, I'm a puss > : 0 )

1995blaster said:

i would love to see a vid of where you drive through

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I'll have a vid of me crossing the pond this weekend.

No vid of him pulling me out but here he is ripping it up on his raptor.