Hydrolocked
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pull plugs, crank motor over till no more water shoots out then do it 30 sec more. if no weird noses while cranking over and no rods through the block you could do a comp test at this time to see if theres a low cylinder might indicate bent rod might be cylinder wash from water.
but all in all crank it over new or dry the spark plugs. get some jumper cables hooked up and start cranking t over once all back together. itll stumble or sound likeit wants to at first. keep at it giving the cables time to cool inbetween 30sec cranking. can put a little MMO or 2 cycle in cylynder to build compression from the water. maybe spray starter fluid while cranking. this is all caus water dosent burn and its still in there.
once it starts stumbling running like 2 cyl running start giving some gas shes going t smoke ALOT and as it clears up itll start running normal after a minute.
Then flush oil once its all good no sense wasting good oil on a junk motor if its toast.
THIS IS ALL PENDING YOUDIDNT THROUGH A ROD BEND A VALVE EPIC F*** THE ENGINE.
what was the senario of the hydrolock? revved WFO or kinda sucked it in and stumbled to a stopthen locked?
z
but all in all crank it over new or dry the spark plugs. get some jumper cables hooked up and start cranking t over once all back together. itll stumble or sound likeit wants to at first. keep at it giving the cables time to cool inbetween 30sec cranking. can put a little MMO or 2 cycle in cylynder to build compression from the water. maybe spray starter fluid while cranking. this is all caus water dosent burn and its still in there.
once it starts stumbling running like 2 cyl running start giving some gas shes going t smoke ALOT and as it clears up itll start running normal after a minute.
Then flush oil once its all good no sense wasting good oil on a junk motor if its toast.
THIS IS ALL PENDING YOUDIDNT THROUGH A ROD BEND A VALVE EPIC F*** THE ENGINE.
what was the senario of the hydrolock? revved WFO or kinda sucked it in and stumbled to a stopthen locked?
z
brian2sun
Elite Member
Pull the spark plugs and crank it over by hand via a ratchet on the crankshaft pulley. The water or whatever is in there will come out of the spark plug holes. Hopefully you didn't bend a rod, that could depend on whether or not you tried to crank it over and over while it was locked up. How did it happen?
brian2sun
Elite Member
Yeah, I guess the starter is more efficient than turning it by hand and like you say, if it doesn't work you're screwed anyway. OP, just don't burn up the starter if it won't turn over.
kaiser
New member
Spark plugs out turned it by hand at first, spit out a little water then we tried it with the starter then it turned and shuttered quite violently, I'm wondering why it did this as the spark plugs were out. Is it in ANYWAY possible to lock it after the plugs were out or for the crank to spin a little at all if it was locked?
Duhockey
Senior Member
oh, and if you hydrolocked it and didnt do the breather mod, might want to check on your rear diff too...
JohnsD90
New member
Try to get into some auction, buy a rolleover, of rearended 4runner. How did you waterlock it?
JohnsD90
New member
I guess i need to put snorkel on my mod list, that is one of my favorite things to do, BTW did you have the deckplate mod?
kaiser
New member
Got some good news today its turning over with the starter for a certain period of time and started to actually ignite today but it never got fully running due to a constantly dying battery and what I can only imagine being a fail-safe. It would turn-turn-turn-turn-turn then thud stop it did it multiple times, like I said it can be a bent rod or anything like that because each time I tried to turn it over was too inconsistent of each other to be anything like that. Anyone know of such a fail-safe on the 3.4, if it helps the intake wasn't fully on I just hook up the intake to the MAF sensor and left it off the throttle body, also one or two vacuum lines arent connected.
Any ideas?
Any ideas?
