There's been a ton of flooding here in ohio these past few days. At my bros work it started to flood so he decided to leave but had to drive his '97 GT through some fairly deep water 6"-10". The car went through it fine till just at the end were it stalled, the car has 100% HOTCHKIS suspension and is lowered real low, there's only 3" or so to the bottem of the X-pipe. He figured the water got to the belts but the engine would not turn over to try to start, it just clicked like the batery was dead. So we pushed it up to dry land, it sat for 4-5 hours and still just clicked like the battery was dead so we charged it up, still nothing. Then we took the battery out of my car, which we know is good, and it still wouldn't start, just clicked. So now the car has been towed home. And this is where it gets bad.
We took all the spark plugs out and the belt off. With a strap wrench around the crank pully with a good 8" of leverage me and my brother can not get the engine to turn any direction. We pushed the car about 10mph popped the clutch and it just slid the tires in any gear. We can not get this engine to turn over at all. Were is the first place to look? Is there any way that the starter could have shorted and jammed up because of the water? The engine was still cold only being ran 1-2 minutes before this happened, so I don't think the cold water ceased the hot pistons into the bore, possible but I doubt it. Any info would really be nice. Were going to try and pull the starter off tomarrow and keeping our fingers crossed it it the starter that went. Thanks, puTTs.
We took all the spark plugs out and the belt off. With a strap wrench around the crank pully with a good 8" of leverage me and my brother can not get the engine to turn any direction. We pushed the car about 10mph popped the clutch and it just slid the tires in any gear. We can not get this engine to turn over at all. Were is the first place to look? Is there any way that the starter could have shorted and jammed up because of the water? The engine was still cold only being ran 1-2 minutes before this happened, so I don't think the cold water ceased the hot pistons into the bore, possible but I doubt it. Any info would really be nice. Were going to try and pull the starter off tomarrow and keeping our fingers crossed it it the starter that went. Thanks, puTTs.