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Posted: Sun Jun 21, 2009 10:40 pm
by occasional demons
Donkeypuncher wrote:Don't crank that starter for too long, it can overheat and burn up. The fsm mentioned it somewhere, I think the recommended limit was like 15 seconds or so.
That is with the plugs in (under full cranking load). With no compression it should crank a bit longer before overheating. I wouldn't go for a 5 minute run, but common sense would hopefully prevail there.
Besides a little heat in the (starter) motor won't hurt the soaked little bastid anyways. It might not hurt to pull the starter and pop the end off a little, just enough to spray some WD-40 in there too.
Posted: Sun Jun 21, 2009 11:00 pm
by ZeroChad
Posted: Sun Jun 21, 2009 11:05 pm
by occasional demons
ouch.
Posted: Sun Jun 21, 2009 11:16 pm
by excon
yeah... time for forged internals.
Posted: Mon Jun 22, 2009 9:14 am
by newlitemotorist
Dude that sucks! I have helped repair/replace 3 hydrolocked engines in the past 3 years and everytime it was just a "little" puddle or they were just ideling through.
One of my buddies rolled out of a macdonolds parking lot onto the road....coasted and hit a puddle. Killed his engine immediatly.....bent the no. rod.
One thing you do have going for you though is that in all of my days dealing with this I have yet to see a 4 cylinder damage more then just one rod/piston. They all bent or snaped just one....the others were always fine.
Posted: Mon Jun 22, 2009 10:56 am
by fixitmattman
Well that sucks.
But hey, at least you know now that it does need to be rebuilt. As you can imagine if the internals were ok it wasn't that bad to get it going again. Imagine pulling the engine to get it going again just to find you could have gotten away with this kind of effort.
But yeah, definate pull engine and inspect time.
Posted: Mon Jun 22, 2009 11:05 am
by MyNeonSaysHi
Cold Air Intake ForTheLoss.
That really sucks man.
Posted: Mon Jun 22, 2009 11:15 am
by fixitmattman
CAI nothing. You can hydrolock an engine with a stock intake just as well.
Posted: Mon Jun 22, 2009 12:01 pm
by MyNeonSaysHi
fixitmattman wrote:CAI nothing. You can hydrolock an engine with a stock intake just as well.
No shit, but the CAI makes it more likely to happen and in less water.
Posted: Mon Jun 22, 2009 2:14 pm
by alsey_seven
Sucks about the car, and all the hard work on the rebuild.
Socal= No rain FTW
Posted: Mon Jun 22, 2009 3:57 pm
by OB
That's terrible Chad I'm sorry to hear it. Your car is raw you need to fix it asap.
Posted: Mon Jun 22, 2009 7:17 pm
by ZeroChad
^I'm doing my best lol
I'll be dropping the pan tomorrow. Way to tired today. I'm really hoping that the crank and block are fine.
CAI or not I was fucked lol. There were 3 other stock height/intake cars that got stuck right when I did too.
I just saw some pics of some flooding north of here in Ionia county. There was a country fest there and a river overflowed the fairgrounds leaving 1000 cars flooded.