Top signs your car engine has water damage!

We go over the steps on how to inspect for a flooded engine to see if it is hydrolocked or has water damage.
Buy the borescope here: amzn.to/2TKm176

[@TrailVapor]

Good video. Oil dipstick checks the floating oil & won't necessarily show water emulsified oil

[@dar322sk]

very informative. Thank You!

[@amygardner9941]

Thanks for sharing

[@Cookingoil365]

Great video, drove thru a flooded road Thursday(now Saturday) the truck struggled to start but gave in on the 3/4 crank It would fire right up after warmed up (Friday& Saturday morning) But today I went to go get gas and was left stranded at the gas station The starter doesn’t budge at all could it be a blown fuse? I did find a couple table spoons of water in the intake hose and my air filter does look damaged/ dried

[@kasondrapace1585]

What if there’s white smoke coming from tail pipe after the flood n they took spark plugs out but I don’t think they got all the water out 😢

[@madscientistkicks]

What “shorts” when water floods above a connected battery?

[@artmartinez4449]

Great video but it was difficult to hear you. Your voice vol level was too low.

[@gordonlin6120]

you just need to turn him up lol

[@NYCGAL328]

​@@gordonlin6120 it's TRUE the sound is super low 😂

[@FiveMCity]

starting the car after flooding and driving the car throw was will cause the rod to bend? Or if the car has been sitting in water, without being started, the rod shouldn't be bent correct?

[@kylewellsby2176]

If the car was sitting the rod will not bend. It’s because the person who owned it most likely drove it into water

[@garylawton7254]

I went through a puddle due to flooding in my local area and the cars been jerking and missing revs when driven especially uphill could it dry out by itself do you think?

[@jrh5544]

Gary Lawton happened to me and it didn’t dry out after 2 days so idk

[@cchis1672]

Did you manage to fix it? Same thing happened to me no power going uphill. Sounds like its chuffing. If you have a fix let me know!

[@DonDaDaBoi]

same for me right now did any of you get it fixed ?

[@Cookingoil365]

@@DonDaDaBoiyou figure it out?

[@midlifecruiser420]

???

[@sameerzx6122]

in my case the engine jammed , no movement at all .what would be the fix ?

[@filiplaskovski9993]

New engine

[@drone_tours]

New engine or a total rebuild

[@Cookingoil365]

What ended up happening bud?

[@sanguinesydttv]

Okay so hoping this is a good place to ask: Today I hit a pretty large puddle that was at the bottom of a hill just before an incline. I'd have to say it was maybe a 3-4" deep puddle? Right after, my car started being loud. It doesn't sound "abnormal". There's no extra clanking or anything like that, it just sounds like a normal engine but if you cranked the volume up. The vehicle isn't running sluggish or chugging or jerking. It shifts just fine and it's not revving at higher RPMs. I had to drive it about 50 miles home because I had no other option. I noticed that the volume of the sound got significantly quieter the more I drove it. There's no check engine light and it's not overheating at all either. I feel like maybe I'm just being paranoid and there's nothing major do worry about but I don't know. Just gonna go to bed and check the oil and transmission dipsticks when I wake up and start it to see if the sound is still present. I should mention, it's a 2004 Honda Element manual transmission 4cyl 2.4L and it's a 4 wheel drive.

[@cDisturbed.]

I had the same with my civic type r, I’ve been a Honda mechanic for 8 years so luckily I sorted it ASAP. My problem was abit larger, as my car cut out and wouldn’t start in the puddle so I had to get it recovered. Long story short mines fine now after 3 oil changes and me quickly being able to remove any water from the intake. Would definitely recommend an oil change

[@sanguinesydttv]

@@cDisturbed. turned out the muffler just separated a little from that manifold when it hit the ground. The car was previously in the Midwest so there was rust. A little derusting and $15 for new bolts, springs and gasket and it's good as new. c:

[@sanguinesydttv]

@@cDisturbed. in the Honda Element, the air intake is right under the hood and about 4' off the ground. Thing could probably go through 3' deep water before anything would be able to get in through the air intake.

[@nobody1042]

Great investigated work, but nobody is going to the what you did. There are easyer ways to check for flood damage.

[@bareless3254]

Thanks fucking ETA tropical storm. Major flooding down in south Florida. Went through a good amount of water in a parking lot reaching above the grill and hood. Car stalled jump out pop the hood open air box filter is soaked. Sucked water right in the engine. Towed it home pulled the intake and spark plugs engine wouldn’t turn over by hand. Engine is fucked. 2006 Cadillac SRX

[@tonyanthony991]

Helped needed I drove my 5 series through water which the wave went to top of bonnet!! I started the car as it stalled and water was getting deeper. When it started white smoke came out of exhaust for s while. I’ve left it a few days it starts up but idles rough! Air filter had some dust and some minor stuff.. any ideas going forward?

[@drone_tours]

It's hydrolocked probably has a bent Conrod BMTroubleyou

[@vandalov777]

@@drone_tours so car can have good idle with hydrolocked engine???

[@hmsmedia2005]

Hard to hear…

[@jcoats5529]

What?

[@mikewiebers8814]

I’m a very old man 👴! I thought this video would be about an engine that wouldn’t start because it had too much gas in the carburetor 🎃. Never mind 👻.

[@Totally_wrx]

your camera man or girl sucks too much motion and hard to see parts of the video