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Location: Mauston, Wisconsin | If you have a oil injection tank check it for water. If it's not a tiller, I would also open up the throttle control/shift assembly and let it thouroughly dry out. Also take engine shift & throttle cables off and lube them. Lubing control cables can be messy but there are tricks to make it less messy.
Re. Your electrical panels & other electrical connection stuff. You need to get it inside in nice dry atmosphere and open up all hatches, etc. Disconnect all electrical connectors that were submerged, even if they are supposed to be "water proof" let it all dry out for at least a week. You could accerate the drying process with a hairdryer, just don't over heat stuff. I wouldn't use the boat until then.
Even after that there will quite likely be water still retained in between the wire insulation and the copper wires (water ingress into the cable/wiring) if either of the wire end's were submerged. But it shouldn't be a short term issue and long term there could be corrosion problems. If you've ever stripped a wire on your boat trailer and the wire was black instead of copper colored, that's from water ingress/corrosion. That's a very really problem with boat trailer wiring, as many us know from first hand experience. Aquarium grade RTV is a good sealant for crimped connections, like those on most boat trailers. But there's also trick(s)s to getting a good seal.
The tricks- I'll post later, just not enough time right now.
Al
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