Water in engine.

[Trick98GT]

Whats my worst case scenario if water got sucked into my engine?

 

[99SCGT]

Ruined Short Block.

 

[millatime]

from my own experience with 4000 miles on the odometer..bent rods, thrown pistons, and a lot of other things that end in scraping the motor. In my case I had to go further and have the rear end and transmission serviced, new carpet and padding, new brakes, a couple new sensors...i think thats it. Ended up costing me (actually my insurance) just under 7 grand..and I still regret not searching for crate motors like the mach 1 from carcraft or whatever was available 9 months ago.

 

[DELOS02GT]

At my old job a guy came in with his car knocking REALLY bad. He said that he drove threw a big puddle and ever since then the car was knocking. I looked at the car, Ford Probe, and he had made his own cold air kit out of dryer vent crap. The tube was ran down to the bottom of the car and filter was almost on the ground. I asked him if he put that on and he looked at me with a grin and said "yeah pretty cool huh". I laughed and told him his Home Depot rig just made him toast his motor. He took his car to another shop and sure enough....bent rod. If you think you have water in the motor get it looked at ASAP. It's amazing the damage water can do to a car.

 

[millatime]

It's amazing the damage water can do to a car.

i think amazing is the wrong choice of wording...its more painful than anything

 

[trinity_gt]

Yep. Liquid water is not compressible which runs counter to the 2nd stroke in the 4-stroke cycle (compression.) When liquid water in sufficient quantity is in the chamber on this stroke, the engine may just stop if it's idling. If you've got some RPM going (flywheel momentum) likely it will crack a piston and/or bend a connecting rod.

 

[Pwr_by_FORD]

Originally posted by trinity_gt Yep. Liquid water is not compressible which runs counter to the 2nd stroke in the 4-stroke cycle (compression.) When liquid water in sufficient quantity is in the chamber on this stroke, the engine may just stop if it's idling. If you've got some RPM going (flywheel momentum) likely it will crack a piston and/or bend a connecting rod.

I blew a head gasket on my '69 Mach 1 a few years back. Two cylinders filled up with water, which bent the connecting rods like spaghetti