Hello,
So if you have been watching the news the past week you may have saw that Newfoundland, Canada was hit pretty bad by hurricane Igor. During the peak of the storm I was driving to pick up a friend and had to drive through flood waters to get to where I was going. Turns out my E30 didn't want to splash around in the water, see the video below for the situation after I stalled
Short Version:
-Car stalled in flood water, sat there for an hour
-Water in Cylinders
-I drained it out
-Troubles starting, would roll in 5th gear but would sometimes bring up on something
-Horrible noises when starting engine
I waited around and called a few people looking for a tow but no go. Had I known how easy it was to push the car out I would have jumped out the second it stalled and pushed it to dryer ground but I didn't. It sat there for about 15 minutes and a few people helped me push it out. It wouldn't start and I had to wait 6 hours for a tow truck to become available to get it home.
Once I had it in my driveway I started to think about what might be wrong, hydro lock, starter broken, water in fuel lines, water in oil, etc. So I checked the oil and it looked fine, there was no white in it. I let the car sit in the sun for a day with the hood open and tired to start it and all that would happen is a click. Just one click and nothing. Then I would turn the key back and then on again and it would click. I took the spark plugs out and stuck a piece of rolled up paper down the cylinder hole and took it out and it was soaked. I tried to lite it on fire but it wouldn't (I'm still learning how to properly repair cars, I thought this was a valid test).
Knowing I had water in there I left the plugs out and stuck the car in 5th and rolled it backwards to move the cylinders around and flush it out and the next video shows water spitting out onto napkins I placed there (I wanted to see how much would come out so I placed them there) Sorry for the shaky camera hand, I was using my blackberry and pushing at the same time.
I did that for a while until I no longer heard a sloshing noise and I could finally smell gas. There was one thing that happened while rolling the car back, it would bring up for no apparent reason and the only way to get past this hitch would be to turn the engine over (bad noises again) and keep rolling.
After a while I was able to get to the point where I could put the spark plugs in and turn the key and the car would start to turn over and want to start but just couldn't, this is the sound it made
So the big question is what might this awful sound mean and is there any way I can fix it? I was told it could be a control rod and that it would be easier and cheaper to do an engine swap. Any help is greatly appreciated.
Aaron
So if you have been watching the news the past week you may have saw that Newfoundland, Canada was hit pretty bad by hurricane Igor. During the peak of the storm I was driving to pick up a friend and had to drive through flood waters to get to where I was going. Turns out my E30 didn't want to splash around in the water, see the video below for the situation after I stalled
Short Version:
-Car stalled in flood water, sat there for an hour
-Water in Cylinders
-I drained it out
-Troubles starting, would roll in 5th gear but would sometimes bring up on something
-Horrible noises when starting engine
I waited around and called a few people looking for a tow but no go. Had I known how easy it was to push the car out I would have jumped out the second it stalled and pushed it to dryer ground but I didn't. It sat there for about 15 minutes and a few people helped me push it out. It wouldn't start and I had to wait 6 hours for a tow truck to become available to get it home.
Once I had it in my driveway I started to think about what might be wrong, hydro lock, starter broken, water in fuel lines, water in oil, etc. So I checked the oil and it looked fine, there was no white in it. I let the car sit in the sun for a day with the hood open and tired to start it and all that would happen is a click. Just one click and nothing. Then I would turn the key back and then on again and it would click. I took the spark plugs out and stuck a piece of rolled up paper down the cylinder hole and took it out and it was soaked. I tried to lite it on fire but it wouldn't (I'm still learning how to properly repair cars, I thought this was a valid test).
Knowing I had water in there I left the plugs out and stuck the car in 5th and rolled it backwards to move the cylinders around and flush it out and the next video shows water spitting out onto napkins I placed there (I wanted to see how much would come out so I placed them there) Sorry for the shaky camera hand, I was using my blackberry and pushing at the same time.
I did that for a while until I no longer heard a sloshing noise and I could finally smell gas. There was one thing that happened while rolling the car back, it would bring up for no apparent reason and the only way to get past this hitch would be to turn the engine over (bad noises again) and keep rolling.
After a while I was able to get to the point where I could put the spark plugs in and turn the key and the car would start to turn over and want to start but just couldn't, this is the sound it made
So the big question is what might this awful sound mean and is there any way I can fix it? I was told it could be a control rod and that it would be easier and cheaper to do an engine swap. Any help is greatly appreciated.
Aaron
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