How to breath life back into a truck that's been for a swim?

[Ben125]

Hi everyone.

Yesterday my brother got his old 2.4 hilux well and truly stuck in the river near our place. Water was up to about the bottom of the gear stick inside the truck. It has a snorkel so no water got into engine. It was about 5 hours before he found a friendly farmer who pulled him out. This morning he towed it to my place. I have a few days off work so I decided to make a start on fixing the old girl. So far I have:

-Pulled out the battery and put that onto charge
-Stripped seats and carpet out of the inside so they can dry
-Empted the engine oil, transmission oil, transfer case oil and both diffs (there was varying amounts of water in with all these fluids)

I'm planning on changing the brake fluid, checking the fuel tank for water and taking apart the hubs and re greasing the wheel bearings. I'll also do a grease of everything underneath with the grease gun.

I'm not much of a mechanic myself but I do have a pretty good workshop manual for the truck. Not surprisingly though it doesn't go through everything you should do after you take the truck swimming. I thought I'd better get on here and ask some of you guys, who I'm sure have been in similar situations before, for some advice. Would love to know what other items need to be sorted before we kick the old girl back to life. Cheers.

[Smurf]

Sounds like you have a pretty good handle on it.
Chuck a dehumidifier in it for a week to remove the water you can't get to, in dash, electrics etc.
It may also pay to CRC all the electrical plugs in the body and engine bay, you can open them up and spray them.
Make sure all the drain holes in the doors and body are unblocked so all the water can drain from the inside of the body panels.
Check your air filter housing is dry, even though there is a snorkel you may find some water in there.
Check headlights aren't full of water also, use a piece of thin plastic tubing to siphon the water out.