water in engine HELP ME PLEASE!

[rampagefsj]

My engine has been in my truck out in the open for a bit, and last night it rained. Now I found out that the far back right cylinder has water in it. Just to be safe, I pulled all of the plugs and cranked it for a while. Now that cylinder is the only one that still has water in it. I cranked it over until the water became a fine mist coming out that never seems to stop. Have I cranked it enough to be safe? I plan on draining the oil, and removing the oil filter as soon as I have the cylinder drained good enough. Would it be safe to just drain out the filter and use it again untill I have it back together and completely change out the oil after that? Thanks in advance.

THE CURSE OF REAPER STILL LIVES ON:mad: :( !

[rustywagoneers_com]

you oiled that cylinder (well, actually all of them) right?

the mist could now be air / fuel vapor...

make sure you oiled it and get it running, warmed up all the way, change the oil, and be ready to change it in very short order again if the oil turns milky at all...

hope you caught it in time, i have had engines that sat with water in them for years and were fine, and i have had engines that huffed oil ever since that one time when i flooded them...

peace
Dave

[rampagefsj]

I must have forgotten about oiling the cylinder:eek: , how would you go about fully spreading oil in all of them? Should I just pour some in through the spark plug holes, or use a spray gun?

[rampagefsj]

No answer in time, so I just now went out to the truck, using a radiator fluid checking dropper, I did my best to coat each of the cylinders with oil and paid special attention to the pass. side rear one, leaving a small pool of oil on top of the piston to let that soak in. I hope that will protect it until I can get around to firing it up to change the oil. I did turn it over myself with a breaker bar to make sure that the walls got coated and that it wasn't stuck. Is there any chance that water pooling on the intake manifold could seep into a bolt hole or something and get down into that cylinder?

WHY WON'T YOU FORGIVE ME REAPER:mad: !

[bigun]

If water pooling on the intake could seep in then you wouldhave a vacume leak in the same spot! WD 40 works well in this sort of situation as that is what it was designed to do Water Displace 40! After spraying oil in turn the engine over to coat the cylinder walls also, and get that engine covered up!!!! .

[rampagefsj]

I fired up the engine today to warm up the oil for changing (after checking if it was stuck and draining the oil that I pooled in the one cylinder). It did smoke a little while I had it running and it smelled like crap, this worried me, so I only kept it running for about a minute (no radiator so it heats up fast). I drained the oil and filter put the old filter back in (temporarily, of course) and filled it back up. If I didn't know any better, I'd say that it is now acting like nothing ever happened, no wierd noises, vibes, or anything. Even though it has no muffler:D . Thank you for the advice, and I will change the oil again after I get it driving. I also found a cover that is now on there. I'll be getting the front clip and hood on soon.:cool:

[rustywagoneers_com]

good!

peace
Dave

[Lazarus]

I would not worry about that little bit of water that got in that cylinder... I hydrolocked my motor a few weeks ago while trying to negotiate a really deep mud hole that wasn't that deep the day before but it sucked water into 4 of the cylinders and could have damaged something had I not shut it off when the hood went for a swim... pulled the plugs, drained the cylinders and had to get a new starter but it ran fine... now the transmission was a different story and im now in the process of doing a full motor/trans swap...(faster to replace as a whole unit that to pull the trans and rebuild before eci)

but having a little water in a cylinder is not death on a motor unles it has been in there for a while(long while) or if you turn it over with the water in there...

[rampagefsj]

I'm hoping for the best. The water was in there for a week at the most. I did find out it was there by cranking it over. When it barely moved some and stopped, I knew that something was wrong. It couldn't have been the battery or the starter in my mind (both brand spanking new), so I remembered that it had rained the night before and went on a hunch by pulling all of the plugs out. I was right and when I pulled the back passenger side plug out, it came streaming out.

[rustywagoneers_com]

one particular 360 that i had in a concord sat for i-dont-know-how-long with water in it... when i pulled the plugs and cranked it around, several cylinders shot water 2 feet in the air... i was leary, but i was out of options at that time, so i put it in... the stupid thing ran way longer under much more abuse than i would ever have expected it to stand... and then, like i said... there have been engines that get yelled at once and they start leaking and smoking... i am gonna go with the hunch that you are fine...

peace
Dave