Hyrdolocked!?! Rod knock video

Post by **occasional demons** » Sun Jun 21, 2009 10:40 pm

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.

ZeroChad · Post by **ZeroChad** » Sun Jun 21, 2009 11:00 pm

Video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3BNGwqWO6Jc

Post by **occasional demons** » Sun Jun 21, 2009 11:05 pm

ouch.

excon · Post by **excon** » Sun Jun 21, 2009 11:16 pm

yeah... time for forged internals.

newlitemotorist · Post by **newlitemotorist** » Mon Jun 22, 2009 9:14 am

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.

fixitmattman · Post by **fixitmattman** » Mon Jun 22, 2009 10:56 am

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.

MyNeonSaysHi · Post by **MyNeonSaysHi** » Mon Jun 22, 2009 11:05 am

Cold Air Intake ForTheLoss.

That really sucks man.

fixitmattman · Post by **fixitmattman** » Mon Jun 22, 2009 11:15 am

CAI nothing. You can hydrolock an engine with a stock intake just as well.

MyNeonSaysHi · Post by **MyNeonSaysHi** » Mon Jun 22, 2009 12:01 pm

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.

alsey_seven · Post by **alsey_seven** » Mon Jun 22, 2009 2:14 pm

Sucks about the car, and all the hard work on the rebuild.

Socal= No rain FTW

OB · Post by OB » Mon Jun 22, 2009 3:57 pm

That's terrible Chad I'm sorry to hear it. Your car is raw you need to fix it asap.

ZeroChad · Post by **ZeroChad** » Mon Jun 22, 2009 7:17 pm

^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.