I agree 100%. Change the starter, Oil & filter, add a small spray of starter fuid in the spark plug ports and let it evaporate. Should run proper after your plugs and intake is put back together.
Where exactly is the air intake ? Is it stock? To soak a filter so thoroughly the water passes it was more than a quick splash it was driven for a few seconds with the inlet under water. This is why one should always know the height of the air inlet. Even in trucks I seen them close to bumper height. Driving tip, go slow thru deep waters let the front of your vehicle create a wake that helps part the water as you drive. Better yet avoid deep water where ever possible.
I think the air intake is at the rear of the left front light, there is a cavity where the air box seems to connect. It sucks when cars have an air intake so close to the ground.
My mother drove her old 2000 model Toyota Corolla into flood water over here in Australia a decade ago & it sat there overnight for 16 hours until the water receded far enough so that we could tow it out of the water the next day,it was my grandmothers car until she died 18 years ago. The battery was dead when we towed it out & we hooked some jumper leads up to it & sure enough, it was hydrolocked so we removed the spark plugs & my brother removed the upper intake plenum off the 1.8 litre 7AFE 4 cylinder engine & we cranked it over & water also blew out of the lower inlet manifold & the spark plug holes. I checked for spark & power to the fuel injectors which was non existent which is why it wouldn't start,I pulled the ECU out & checked the board which was saturated in water & the bridging piece between the +12 volt unswitched supply had become a sacrificial anode in the briney water therefore it got eaten away. We (my dad ,my youngest brother & myself) towed it home for about 13 kilometres ( about 7 miles) using his then New Holden (Chevrolet) Colorado & my dad & brother had their mobile phones set up as an intercom so that they could communicate because my brother was in the Corolla. Once we pushed into the shed I recharged the battery then I soldered a bridging piece into the ECU for the +12 volt ECU pin after drying the ECU out with some electrical cleaning spray from memory. It was only a temporary repair until I could get another ECU for it, the engine fired right up when I plugged the ECU back in & I refitted the battery,all this water blew out of the exhaust pipe when I gave it a bit of a rev. I had to replace the ECU when I noticed that the check engine light glowed slightly,my brother pulled all of the seats out & shampooed them & the carpet,we went through the car with that fish oil anti rust stuff as well,it also needed the airbag module replaced as well because it got water logged. My mother drove it until she couldn't drive anymore,we drove it until we decided to sell it at the end of last year !
@@RussellBooth1977 Great story 👍🏻. Also, this ain't no Toyota, lol. I bet it's going to be ugly when this beast fires up. I hope he's as lucky as your mother. I guess we'll see!
@@StrongerThanBigfoot Water does not compress, so if enough water was ingested into the combustion chamber while the engine was running the piston wouldn't have enough space. This can lead to bent rods or other possible damage to any of the rotating assembly including the crankshaft and or the bearings. The connecting rod is the weakest part so it's usually the first to be damaged.
I buy tons of flood water cars at the auction, fresh water only , not salt water eats the copper , 95% of the time I got them running again even made special water removal kits , after pretty much changing out the normal parts and dropping the oil and putting new oil in and adding water removal as well they come out great new cars with less than 5k on the dash only other problems if I had no turn over was getting a new flashed computer for them and that would usually do the trick gotta say great money on flood cars I have repeat customers asking me for them after purchasing from me in the past and having faith in me and the vehicle lol
@ticesine6589 burnt up the starter, pretty common to burn up the solenoid. Typically a starter only runs for a few seconds to start a motor. So doing it a bunch for 30 seconds or more it'll get super hot and fry it
While it is likely a starter, it is definitely not the solenoid. You can clearly hear the solenoid click when it engages. The starter motor itself is not rotating. He probably burned-out the motor windings from cranking it too many times trying to clear the cylinders. Also, it would be worth checking the battery amp draw while cranking. It could have 12 +/- volts but an internally damaged battery may not provide enough amps to crank the engine. He could have fried the battery as well.
That may have a high current fuse to the starter that popped due to trying to crank over a water locked up engine. Or the cranking of a locked up engine melted the windings in the starter like you mentioned. I have seen both. I'll bet money the engine is junk with a knock once its running.
@@mph5896 I agree. If the intake filled with water like he described, it hydrolocked the cylinders and probably bent a few rods or worse. I'll be looking for part 2 for sure on this one!
I would def get that starter tested at an oreillys. But good assumption diagnosing down to the starter right away. Guy seemed like he knew whats up. Im sure he did try starting it a lot while the issue was happening, so its probably toast lol.
@@Fatedcauze Still not possible to bend a valve from hydrolocking because hydrolocking requires the valves on the cylinder to be closed in order to occur. But thanks for coming anyway, sport.👍
@@TonyRule I have been a mechanic since 1990, I am not some 20 year old kid who just graduated from UTI and thinks they are a master tier performance tech. As I think you are. Childish too, repeated what you said, then added an insult 👍 A bit weird to be honest.
@@Fatedcauze I actually started my apprenticeship as a mechanic in December '89 at a Mazda/Fiat/Renault/Peugeot/Hyundai dealership. I completed that (not at the dealership - I moved twice in the 3¼ years it took me to complete my 8k hours to get greater experience at troubleshooting, which you get little of at a dealer), then I did 2 more years on the tools before going back to school full time to graduate as a mechanical engineer, which is what I've done since. So, you guessed completely wrong. Now, I don't doubt that you may have seen an engine that had been hydrolocked that had bent valves. But the hydrolocking was not the CAUSE of those bent valves. It's simply not possible because the hydrolocking can only occur with the valves on the cylinder closed and if they're not closed the incompressible water simply goes out the open valve. If the valves are closed, the valve seat supports the valve face against the seat concentrically, and the stem cannot be bent because the face cannot be displaced.
a short puddle can grow in size when youre just going balls deep through it. I see it all the time with drivers strolling through flooded areas and the water climbs up and over the hood from the motion of the car.
It wouldn’t be locked from water with no plugs bc there is no compression but without them plugs in there if there was water it’s got that rust finish over night and it’s hydrolock
SAME THING HAPPENED TO MY 2017 Honda sport when my mom was driving n went threw water my air intake had n whole at the bottom and it sucked everything up
I think the engine is toast. My friend drive his challenger thur aome water in a recent Houston flood and it ingested water. 2 Mechanics inspected and told him he needs a new engine or rebuilt.
If it was hydro lock, then that could have burnt up the starter, or water got into starter. If water got into the cylinders then he could also have squashed pistons and bent rods. I did headgaskets on like a 93 Toyota v6 and with hadgaksets leaking coolant into cylinders it bent 2 or 3 rods or squashed pistons. He only wanted headgaskets so we did that and it ran ok, but I think this engine had reduced power and longer crank time. When all the pistons don't come all the way to the top of cylinder, something is wrong. I would refuse to work on this one. He would be very lucky if it's just the starter, and I'm not a gambler.
He burnt the starter trying to start it. It should start after the water is out maybe the rods bent enough to not make enough compression. Here for part 2
If there is water in the engine why would you turn the motor over without pulling the plugs? You're literally going to bend push rods and jack things up. Water can't be compressed.
as a child i used to visit family in branson, i remember we had to cross a bridge the was only one lane wide but went both ways so only one car could cross at a time. i doubt it is still like that, but would really be cool to see again.
Hey man, you have a huge truck, have you thought on buying a gas powered compressor? Maybe something small. In this case, as the starter wasn't working, a leak down test could have come handy.
2:00 That is 1 test for a starter. That test does not tell you 100% its a bad starter. There is this thing called Voltage drop in which case the starter may not be bad.
This sounds funny to me how did driving through a puddle do it did he have a snorkel an inch above the ground sucking water and things up there’s Nooo way it could have happened unless he had a after market air intake and it would have to been a big ass puddle he drove through jeeeezzz hahaha
*through Sounds like a HT side short to ground (plug lead) due to moisture if the 'ticking' is a crisp sound that increases frequency with engine speed. Have a look under the hood in the dark - you might spot a nice fat blue spark jumping. Unless it's has coil packs, in which case it'll be hidden down the plug tube, but then you can disconnect the connector to each one, one at a time. If the tick stops, there's your problem one - also the engine note won't change when you disconnect that one because it's not contributing. Don't drive it too long like that because the raw unburned fuel is really bad for the catalytic convertor.
Only in the bores - everything else is covered in oil, but as Parker said - it needs an oil change because now there will be water in there and it's not meant to be, so the oil will emulsify and be less effective as a lubricant. But he's already removed the plugs and dried it out in the bores as best he can. Now he needs to cross his fingers and pray to whichever God that the motor didn't get hydrolocked from ingesting that water, or it could well have a bent rod.
This motor spins counter clockwise, spinning it clockwise like it looks in the video may jump timing, look into it you’ll save a few headaches down the road trust me, I have bent valves on a 3.6
There is still something about this MUD PUDDLE STORY missing !
Well he did say the owner was a police man so we already know we cant trust him or anything he says
🐷
I agree 100%. Change the starter, Oil & filter, add a small spray of starter fuid in the spark plug ports and let it evaporate. Should run proper after your plugs and intake is put back together.
You got it you know your stuff!
I like how your brother was neatly putting those towels over the intake. Shows his commitment to treating people's vehicle with respect. 😊
So true 👍.
One guys puddle is another guys pond. 🤷♂️🙈
2nd question: How fast were you going??
Can you do follow up vids of fixing the car
Where exactly is the air intake ? Is it stock? To soak a filter so thoroughly the water passes it was more than a quick splash it was driven for a few seconds with the inlet under water. This is why one should always know the height of the air inlet. Even in trucks I seen them close to bumper height. Driving tip, go slow thru deep waters let the front of your vehicle create a wake that helps part the water as you drive. Better yet avoid deep water where ever possible.
I think the air intake is at the rear of the left front light, there is a cavity where the air box seems to connect. It sucks when cars have an air intake so close to the ground.
It's an open circular intake on the grill usually where one of the smaller lights would be
My mother drove her old 2000 model Toyota Corolla into flood water over here in Australia a decade ago & it sat there overnight for 16 hours until the water receded far enough so that we could tow it out of the water the next day,it was my grandmothers car until she died 18 years ago.
The battery was dead when we towed it out & we hooked some jumper leads up to it & sure enough, it was hydrolocked so we removed the spark plugs & my brother removed the upper intake plenum off the 1.8 litre 7AFE 4 cylinder engine & we cranked it over & water also blew out of the lower inlet manifold & the spark plug holes.
I checked for spark & power to the fuel injectors which was non existent which is why it wouldn't start,I pulled the ECU out & checked the board which was saturated in water & the bridging piece between the +12 volt unswitched supply had become a sacrificial anode in the briney water therefore it got eaten away.
We (my dad ,my youngest brother & myself) towed it home for about 13 kilometres ( about 7 miles) using his then New Holden (Chevrolet) Colorado & my dad & brother had their mobile phones set up as an intercom so that they could communicate because my brother was in the Corolla.
Once we pushed into the shed I recharged the battery then I soldered a bridging piece into the ECU for the +12 volt ECU pin after drying the ECU out with some electrical cleaning spray from memory.
It was only a temporary repair until I could get another ECU for it, the engine fired right up when I plugged the ECU back in & I refitted the battery,all this water blew out of the exhaust pipe when I gave it a bit of a rev.
I had to replace the ECU when I noticed that the check engine light glowed slightly,my brother pulled all of the seats out & shampooed them & the carpet,we went through the car with that fish oil anti rust stuff as well,it also needed the airbag module replaced as well because it got water logged.
My mother drove it until she couldn't drive anymore,we drove it until we decided to sell it at the end of last year !
@@RussellBooth1977 Great story 👍🏻. Also, this ain't no Toyota, lol. I bet it's going to be ugly when this beast fires up. I hope he's as lucky as your mother. I guess we'll see!
Badass story .also have the same story somewhat
I'd check compression on all the cylinders. If water was ingested then it's possible to have bent rods etc.
How’s do rods get bent by just water?
@@StrongerThanBigfoot Water does not compress, so if enough water was ingested into the combustion chamber while the engine was running the piston wouldn't have enough space. This can lead to bent rods or other possible damage to any of the rotating assembly including the crankshaft and or the bearings. The connecting rod is the weakest part so it's usually the first to be damaged.
@@bluerider0988very true have seen it happen few times
100%
@@bluerider0988 thanks for explanation
I had a 6 month old Challenger RT drove through a flooded street here in Miami. Cracked block. Thank God for insurance. $12k.
a car is a car not a boat all though those dodges are considered big boats lol
Don't be silly! It has a flotation pontoon on each corner!
👍👍👍 sounds as if he did more than run through the puddle....
I buy tons of flood water cars at the auction, fresh water only , not salt water eats the copper , 95% of the time I got them running again even made special water removal kits , after pretty much changing out the normal parts and dropping the oil and putting new oil in and adding water removal as well they come out great new cars with less than 5k on the dash only other problems if I had no turn over was getting a new flashed computer for them and that would usually do the trick gotta say great money on flood cars I have repeat customers asking me for them after purchasing from me in the past and having faith in me and the vehicle lol
@ParkersMobile
That’s why they say turn around do not drown.
They meant that for you
and for your Vehicle!!!
Maybe starter will dry out and start working...
That's what I was thinking , he may need to try this like a wet cell phone ,, wait it out, let it dry.
@ticesine6589 burnt up the starter, pretty common to burn up the solenoid. Typically a starter only runs for a few seconds to start a motor. So doing it a bunch for 30 seconds or more it'll get super hot and fry it
@ticesine6589 park it in a large bucket of uncooked white rice for sure. Works every time.
@maxhatty I was literally going to type that lol hahaha it would work
@terryw7309 I bet ya he did burn it, you prob right
Wasn't no puddle homie drove thru a flooded street 😂
Shout-out from Missouri 💪🏻
That was a big ass puddle
There is flash flooding sometimes.
While it is likely a starter, it is definitely not the solenoid. You can clearly hear the solenoid click when it engages. The starter motor itself is not rotating. He probably burned-out the motor windings from cranking it too many times trying to clear the cylinders. Also, it would be worth checking the battery amp draw while cranking. It could have 12 +/- volts but an internally damaged battery may not provide enough amps to crank the engine. He could have fried the battery as well.
That may have a high current fuse to the starter that popped due to trying to crank over a water locked up engine. Or the cranking of a locked up engine melted the windings in the starter like you mentioned. I have seen both.
I'll bet money the engine is junk with a knock once its running.
@@mph5896 I agree. If the intake filled with water like he described, it hydrolocked the cylinders and probably bent a few rods or worse. I'll be looking for part 2 for sure on this one!
Honestly here’s the deal. Love this channel! 🙏🏽
I would def get that starter tested at an oreillys. But good assumption diagnosing down to the starter right away. Guy seemed like he knew whats up. Im sure he did try starting it a lot while the issue was happening, so its probably toast lol.
He tested it why would you have it tested again at a parts store there going to do the same thing put power to it like he did with that power probe
@@Semo_420 if you’re gonna buy one there you might aswell get it tested But we all know Parker’s tests are good 👍
Ah there’s the problem… it’s missing 2 cylinders 😮
My guy drove across the atlantic ocean in this
Yeah a new starter will do it... it'll run fine with the bent con rods and bent valves... it'll be great
It seems that his definition of a puddle and mine are different
😂
Muddy puddles? What is this, Peppa Pig?
Hopefully he didn’t bend a valve. 🤞
Hydrolocking doesn't bend valves - it bends conrods
@@TonyRule I've seen it happen multiple times, but thanks for sharing 👍
@@Fatedcauze Still not possible to bend a valve from hydrolocking because hydrolocking requires the valves on the cylinder to be closed in order to occur.
But thanks for coming anyway, sport.👍
@@TonyRule I have been a mechanic since 1990, I am not some 20 year old kid who just graduated from UTI and thinks they are a master tier performance tech. As I think you are.
Childish too, repeated what you said, then added an insult 👍
A bit weird to be honest.
@@Fatedcauze I actually started my apprenticeship as a mechanic in December '89 at a Mazda/Fiat/Renault/Peugeot/Hyundai dealership. I completed that (not at the dealership - I moved twice in the 3¼ years it took me to complete my 8k hours to get greater experience at troubleshooting, which you get little of at a dealer), then I did 2 more years on the tools before going back to school full time to graduate as a mechanical engineer, which is what I've done since. So, you guessed completely wrong.
Now, I don't doubt that you may have seen an engine that had been hydrolocked that had bent valves. But the hydrolocking was not the CAUSE of those bent valves. It's simply not possible because the hydrolocking can only occur with the valves on the cylinder closed and if they're not closed the incompressible water simply goes out the open valve. If the valves are closed, the valve seat supports the valve face against the seat concentrically, and the stem cannot be bent because the face cannot be displaced.
a short puddle can grow in size when youre just going balls deep through it. I see it all the time with drivers strolling through flooded areas and the water climbs up and over the hood from the motion of the car.
I did a short block and supercharger on a hellcat because the dude drove through high water. Makes no sense when he had a supercharged raptor as well
Remember to dry the water out in the air box and replace the air filter. Of course also change the oil lol.
That is a beautiful car.❤
It wouldn’t be locked from water with no plugs bc there is no compression but without them plugs in there if there was water it’s got that rust finish over night and it’s hydrolock
Branson MO is my neck of the woods run trains through there all the time…
Bro I live in Branson!!!!!
Please show us the follow up
I had it happened once before on 99 Dodge van with the 2.4 PT cruiser engine in it. It was fine after this
Lock my meteorologist always say up here in Oklahoma turn around and don't drown
Take a shop vac to the intake cylinders as well.
First mistake was that 6 cyl.
8 usually just depends on what model and make and everything your car is as to where the air intake is located
Thumbnail got me to click.
Dude could have hydro locked the engine. Too much liquid. That Penta Junk engine is a P O S out of the box
SAME THING HAPPENED TO MY 2017 Honda sport when my mom was driving n went threw water my air intake had n whole at the bottom and it sucked everything up
I have family in Branson. Cool.
I think the engine is toast. My friend drive his challenger thur aome water in a recent Houston flood and it ingested water. 2 Mechanics inspected and told him he needs a new engine or rebuilt.
If it was hydro lock, then that could have burnt up the starter, or water got into starter. If water got into the cylinders then he could also have squashed pistons and bent rods.
I did headgaskets on like a 93 Toyota v6 and with hadgaksets leaking coolant into cylinders it bent 2 or 3 rods or squashed pistons. He only wanted headgaskets so we did that and it ran ok, but I think this engine had reduced power and longer crank time.
When all the pistons don't come all the way to the top of cylinder, something is wrong. I would refuse to work on this one. He would be very lucky if it's just the starter, and I'm not a gambler.
He drove more than just a puddle
Might be a boat but this one didn’t pass the boating test
"Branson? I've never been to Branson"
That would cool the car down. The gaskets may have been worn due to the atmosphere though
Especially don’t go over puddles in these 3.6 dodge / Chryslers it loves sucking up water
He burnt the starter trying to start it. It should start after the water is out maybe the rods bent enough to not make enough compression. Here for part 2
If there is water in the engine why would you turn the motor over without pulling the plugs?
You're literally going to bend push rods and jack things up. Water can't be compressed.
Add MIO or Crystal light to the water so your car can have a nice drink
It's not locked... NOW... but my money's on a bent rod from that ingestion since it was up to the top of the inlet manifold.
His car looks like it cost as much as his house
HOw deep does the water have to be to get sucked in the intake??
as a child i used to visit family in branson, i remember we had to cross a bridge the was only one lane wide but went both ways so only one car could cross at a time. i doubt it is still like that, but would really be cool to see again.
What an excellent channel & idea
Hey man, you have a huge truck, have you thought on buying a gas powered compressor? Maybe something small. In this case, as the starter wasn't working, a leak down test could have come handy.
2:00 That is 1 test for a starter. That test does not tell you 100% its a bad starter. There is this thing called Voltage drop in which case the starter may not be bad.
Voltage drop is the only reliable test
Valves could still be messed up
Time for a new engine. Water does not compress.
did you have to get DOT numbers for that truck? any idea what the weight on it is?
To much yappin màn !
That must be a lake not puddle
You can start an enfine without a starter motor. Seems like hes ripping him off here
Part 2?
Heading to Branson this weekend for the wife's birthday olive garden visit with her ma 🤘
I'm so confused how this happened. How big of puddle was it?
Lake Erie...
That motor turned too smooth by hand, is there compression?
No. The customer took out the sparkplugs
No. The customer took out the sparkplugs
so was the battery good?
I got water in my cap and rotor killed my Honda civic one time.
I daily look forward to watching your videos. Keep up the good work.
This sounds funny to me how did driving through a puddle do it did he have a snorkel an inch above the ground sucking water and things up there’s Nooo way it could have happened unless he had a after market air intake and it would have to been a big ass puddle he drove through jeeeezzz hahaha
It's done
I went threw a puddle and now car making ticking sounds and having problems with acceleration.
And heads up what might be?
*through
Sounds like a HT side short to ground (plug lead) due to moisture if the 'ticking' is a crisp sound that increases frequency with engine speed. Have a look under the hood in the dark - you might spot a nice fat blue spark jumping. Unless it's has coil packs, in which case it'll be hidden down the plug tube, but then you can disconnect the connector to each one, one at a time. If the tick stops, there's your problem one - also the engine note won't change when you disconnect that one because it's not contributing. Don't drive it too long like that because the raw unburned fuel is really bad for the catalytic convertor.
Cant the engine get rust inside from the water
Only in the bores - everything else is covered in oil, but as Parker said - it needs an oil change because now there will be water in there and it's not meant to be, so the oil will emulsify and be less effective as a lubricant. But he's already removed the plugs and dried it out in the bores as best he can. Now he needs to cross his fingers and pray to whichever God that the motor didn't get hydrolocked from ingesting that water, or it could well have a bent rod.
@@TonyRule well said
I wouldn’t have my business on a wife beater shirt on a guy from Branson. Just sayin. Lol
Why do you record in portrait mode?
I think he mostly posts to TikTok.
I really need a mechanic like you sir. What's area are you located sir.
Tulsa
Parker I messaged you and left voicemails, sorry for commenting like this but what’s the best way to get in touch with you?😢
Probably the opposite of what you're doing lol with the "😢" Dudes don't really like that much..Just makes it weird bro!
hello
LS swap
Wassup
This motor spins counter clockwise, spinning it clockwise like it looks in the video may jump timing, look into it you’ll save a few headaches down the road trust me, I have bent valves on a 3.6
Sure he didn't drive into a lake??...just saying lol
Now batman has a robin, that's awesome!
Nice intro!
This guy voice is annoying