Hydrolock -- "I've never seen a car with internals like this"
08-26-2009, 05:04 AM
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Hydrolock -- "I've never seen a car with internals like this"
So a couple weeks ago here towards the shore in NJ we had a huge storm and flood rains. I was out in the middle of a 2hour drive so I ended up driving through it.
Driving through a back road with the rain POURING like buckets and the roads barely visable (going about 15mph) I hit this huge section of the road that was about 6inches flooded with water in a slight slump in the road. It was invisable to me because it just looked like wet road with all the rain.
Long story short, my bottom bumper cover is about 1.5 inches from the road, and the water flowed around my front end, over the hood, and filled in my entire engine compartment ..huge clank, CEL, car stalled. Stuck in the rain. Tried to start the car again (which I was told was A BAD idea, later on) a couple times but just 1 turn-over and a huge clank then nothing.
A buddy of mine owns a tow shop in the town I was in at the time so he brought the flat-bed and took it to the shop, and said he would work on it first thing in the morning. He said after pulling off the coils and plugs the heads spit out about 1.5 to 2gallons (no exageration) of water all over his shop, and 5hours later of messing with it and thinking it would never work again it finally started up just fine like nothing happend.
He said just alittle bit of water would have destroyed any other car's rods, destroyed pistons, and even blow off some bottom ends. He even said "good thing you didn't try to start it afterwards, that would have guarenteed bent rods all over" and I said "well... I did.. 3 times..."
He nodded his head and said "I've never seen a car with internals like this."
'99 A6 2.8
Driving through a back road with the rain POURING like buckets and the roads barely visable (going about 15mph) I hit this huge section of the road that was about 6inches flooded with water in a slight slump in the road. It was invisable to me because it just looked like wet road with all the rain.
Long story short, my bottom bumper cover is about 1.5 inches from the road, and the water flowed around my front end, over the hood, and filled in my entire engine compartment ..huge clank, CEL, car stalled. Stuck in the rain. Tried to start the car again (which I was told was A BAD idea, later on) a couple times but just 1 turn-over and a huge clank then nothing.
A buddy of mine owns a tow shop in the town I was in at the time so he brought the flat-bed and took it to the shop, and said he would work on it first thing in the morning. He said after pulling off the coils and plugs the heads spit out about 1.5 to 2gallons (no exageration) of water all over his shop, and 5hours later of messing with it and thinking it would never work again it finally started up just fine like nothing happend.
He said just alittle bit of water would have destroyed any other car's rods, destroyed pistons, and even blow off some bottom ends. He even said "good thing you didn't try to start it afterwards, that would have guarenteed bent rods all over" and I said "well... I did.. 3 times..."
He nodded his head and said "I've never seen a car with internals like this."
'99 A6 2.8
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well to quote the op, he said the water came out of the spark plug holes...... at most he had only the internal displacemetn back to the intake manifold at the tb.... any more then that wouldnt have come out the holes... still a far cry from 2gallons, but i gues including the intake manifold i could see 1 maybe 1.5