I live in Charleston SC and when its High Tide here next to the beach and it rains hard, we floodd, and its a pain in the ass. Well the streets in my neigborhood were flooded yesterday and on my way to work i say the street covered in water. I was already in water and decided i was not going to cross. I started to back out and my engine cut off. I don't know what to do, and i don't know what it is. I tried starting it last night and this morning. it just makes the starting squell and will not start.



This is horroble what should i Do?

how long would it take for the distributer to dry?

-thanks for any help

-Noah

A flooded engine won't normally dry out on its own. (Oh yeah, and the fd doesn't have a distributor) What you need to do, is:

1) Pull the plugs

2) Pull the circuit opening relay

3) Push the accelerator pedal to the floor, and crank the engine for 5 second intervals, about 5-10 times.

4) Do anything else for about a half an hour. This whould be a good time to take a torch to the old plugs to dry them out, or to go to the store for some new plugs.

5) Repeat steps 3 and 4

6) Put about a tablespoon worth of automatic transmission fluid into the leading (bottom) plug holes.

7) Put the plugs back into the engine, and turn it over with the gas all the way down just a few times (to spread out the ATF).

8) Reinstall the circuit opening relay

9) Start your car normally

10) Once running, get out of the way of the massive cloud of smoke your car is emitting from burning off the ATF. https://www.nopistons.com/forums/pub...IR#>/smile.png

ok thanks i will try this

also my air filter is thoughlly Soaked.

thanks again

-Noah

How did your air filter become soaked?



Also- you can't draw in air if the air filter is saturated. https://www.nopistons.com/forums/pub...IR#>/blush.png

he didn't fuel flood the engine i take it. the car itself was somewhat submerjet (up to the intake atleast) in flood water. which is another thinkg all together and a really bad deal.



it seems as if your electronics survived somehow, but with a water wet intake, you are obviously breathing in water to the engine. if this is infact what happend. id say take the intake off, along with the intake manifold and IC, get all traces of water out and while your at it, deflood the engine of gas by doing what P'cola FD said.



if infact, you engine was submerged in water up to the intake. https://www.nopistons.com/forums/pub...O_DIR#>/11.gif

yes it was submerged in water the flooded street

sorry about the confusion its just so hard to talk about my baby in her

current condition https://www.nopistons.com/forums/pub...O_DIR#>/11.gif

i am going to try to take the intake and intake manafold off and try to get teh water out

anything else i should know or try

thanks again for all the help

I just noticed your name is rotarynoah. https://www.nopistons.com/forums/pub...1047683664.gif Thats funny.

what should I do?