>My Miata did something similar - though I admit not as badly. I had
>decided to wash the engine, and scrubbed it down pretty good. Ran very
>badly for a day or two, then I found that one or two of the spark plug
>holes were filled with water.
Duct-tape a plastic soda straw into your shop vac. Vac out the water. If you
have air, you can dry it out the rest of the way with a blowgun.
>And hydrolock
This is not from getting water in the spark-plug wells. If your spark plugs
are tight enough to keep the gasoline explosions in, they are tight enough to
keep standing water out.
>never happened to me, but I would think that the engine
>would just stop, period. Piston reaches a noncompressible point.
Whereupon the crank or conrod breaks. The classic hydrolock disaster is a car
at speed hitting a deep puddle. Many modern cars have a very low air intake.
The water rams into the intake hard enough that is flows all the way through
the intake ducts and into the cylinders via the intake valves. Intake valve
closes, piston comes up. Water is incompressible. Something breaks.
Phil
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