I spilled Sobe all over my laptop!

Earlier in the week i spilled some sobe on my laptop's keyboard. Now the keys on my keyboard are all stiff and make crunchy sounds when i type!
 My keyboard comes out very easily so i can get it apart from my laptop. What i need to know is can i submerge the keyboard in water to clean out this gunk and make it at least half of what it used to be?
I cannot clean the keyboard by taking all of the keys off, that's definetely not gonna work, the keys are very sensitive and i already almost broke one, and i'm not buying a new keyboard either, they cost somewhere around 81 dollars.

It will cause damage if it hasn't done so already. It is not covered by your warranty. You need to take the computer to your Apple retailer ASAP to see if it's still fixable.

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