Well, I just picked up the 9.9 hp from the repair shop.....the owner asked me "when did you submerge the motor?"
I told him I NEVER submerged the motor.....as a matter of fact, I used it only one time this summer: when we went on vacation and it wouldn't run! He proceeded to show me a jar full of water with a little bit of gas in it; said that this was what he pulled out of the carburator, and that there was significant water in the cylinders as well.
Turns out some A-hole has placed water in my gas tanks!!!!
God help the SOB if I ever find out who it was......even the maggots won't want his carcass when I get done with him! Used to keep the tanks in the boats (I live on a corner), but not any more.....keeping them locked up in the garage.
Dirty rotten bastards!