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    Flooded engine help

    in 90-95 WD21 Pathfinders

    Posted

    I'm thinking I'm going to hook up a compression tool up to the engine before I tear anything apart to put my mind a bit at ease with the cylinders. I'm pretty sure my dad has one I could use so at least I won't be out anything just about and hours worth of work and fighting the 6th plug again

    Flooded engine help

    in 90-95 WD21 Pathfinders

    Posted

    I never stripped my engine, just replaced, but I believe I bent rods.

     

    Something I was warned about, is hot engine parts that suddenly get cooled by the water ingest and forming cracks. These cracks cause problems later down the road.

     

    Not sure how true that is, but does kinda make sense to me.

     

    This must be like a rollercoaster ride for you. Think you ok, then not. Hope you get it sorted.

     

    Sent from my GT-I9300 using Tapatalk

    That does make sense like hot water old frozen glass. Metal I could imagine cracking as well considering how hot our engines are.

     

    You replaced your engine?

     

    An emotional and financial Rollercoaster ride for sure haha currently praying I don't need a new engine. There is no way I could do that myself so I'd be forking over a lot of cash to have it done.

     

    Looks like I should start looking into vg30e crate motor prices. A guy on this forums offered one with 88k for 900$ but I've n I idea on price of crate engines or if I need one yet

     

    Let's hope I dont

    What color is your Pathfinder?

    in 90-95 WD21 Pathfinders

    Posted

    I think I would like to get a Patrol, but I'll be damned if I'm going to spend six months jumping through red tape, logistical hoops and deal with the DOT inspection.... but if anyone in Quebec has one for sale I'll get my hands on it while the smoke is still dissipating off of the keyboard!!

    What's wrong with the patrols? I've seen some videos of that truck and it is a beast off road

    Flooded engine help

    in 90-95 WD21 Pathfinders

    Posted

    I'm not sure if I bent a rod but it doesn't seem like it. I had my mom take some money from me and have the fluids changed. She said ticking was improved but not gone for a.few miles then ticking came hard and she lost a lot of power. Barely made it up the hill in 2nd. Sounds like lifters collapsed.

     

    On a little research here I found our lifters are hydraulic? So it's not just a readjust job sounds more like a replace job. I'll find more out this weekend

    What did you do to your Pathfinder today?

    in The Garage

    Posted

    I know someone who can read Japanese so yes if you can scan some pages yes please and I'll post the translation of the pages.

    Looking forward to that.

     

    Checked oil, mikly. fskc! Started her up before I had to leave for work and let her run. To see if she would quiet down. Knocking sounded like a lifter but doesn't make noise when idle so valve?

     

    Got oil cap off, don't let Mr Olympia screw your cap on :/ once engine got more warm noise went away even at higher rpms. Maybe the last bit of water is getting out of the thing. Left it running with oil cap off to let any water vapors out there till I had to go to work for the week. Saturday oil change

    What did you do to your Pathfinder today?

    in The Garage

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    Hopefully the hydrolock was at low revs and it just needs to dry out.

     

     

    High revs but made it through so wasn't sitting in water when it seized. Started bogging down in the center of the crossing. Today I pulled the last plug and blew the rest of the water that would come out with the starter. Finished up with shop vac and replaces all 6 plugs and air filter after wiping everything down again. Checked oil and turned over. Revved till water vapor stopped coming out. Saturday I'll have fluids drained for further maintenence

    Flooded engine help

    in 90-95 WD21 Pathfinders

    Posted

    Pulled fuel pump fuse and disconnected distributor lead and finally got to that 6 bank spark plug and pulled her out. Cranked out the majority of the rest of the water but could still see and hear some in a few ports.

     

    Got two long straws from AM PM and duct tape. Melted the two straws together, wrapped in tape and taped it to the shop vac. Was able to get the rest of the water out and blow air into all but the 5th and 6th bank since it is so damn hard to get the straw in there.

     

    All ports were clear (obviously just guessing with 6) so I Cranked again to see if I could hear more sloshing. Put new spark plugs in and a new air filter. Soaked up more water in the air filer holster and cleaned the air intake as best I could and leading hose.

     

    Checked engine oil dipstick for a third time, still at same level and not milky . With everything buttoned up I turned her over to burn off the rest of water that could be in. What came next was a uncle buck show of white smoke from water vapor. Reved up till the smoke dissipated and the truck started sounding back to normal.

     

    I don't think all the water is burnt off quite yet however it sounds pretty good, idles, no knocks or new sounds just a little rough but nothing really noticable. This coming Saturday I'm going to have the oil changed since I ran out of time and won't be able to do it myself since I have other work to do. Oil looks good but I'm not chancing it.

     

    Thank you guys for your added input. Always appreciated :D

    Flooded engine help

    in 90-95 WD21 Pathfinders

    Posted

    Yeah I made it clear out of the water to the other side when she finally sized so the engine never actually sat in water

     

    The water level war right below floor boards, is just got hosed up the engine while I was driving through it. Still not sure how it got passed the guard into the air intake but where there is a will there is a way I guess :/

     

    How would I turn them by hand? By turning the timing belt?

     

    Yeah I'm pretty hell bent on changing the oil so nothing else down the road happens afterwards. Funny thing is I was planning to repack bearing this coming weekend while installing new ball joints and UCAs. Haha

     

    I have had my eye on a snorkel for awhile now but it never made top list since I don't generally do water crossings. You can bet she jumped to top of the list now! Though I'll probably make one like many on this forum have with silicone and PVC.

     

    I'm thinking my electronics are fine, like I said water wasn't too deep like a Florida's storm haha. My distributer was still dry right after the incident and still is now. MAF will need some cleaning now though with the muddy water going through it like that but for the most part I think I'm good in that regard. Or maybe I'm just hoping I am

     

    By the by I thank everyone for their replies in helping me with this :)

    No check engine light

    in 90-95 WD21 Pathfinders

    Posted

    Smog shop will still (in my case) fail you even when you notify them about the ECU under the passenger seat. The guy actually got mad at me and borderline screamed at me unless I had Chevy or before 1990 that my truck had check engine light hahaha :D

     

    Really pissed me off actually in hindsight (Hense the post for others) :/

    Flooded engine help

    in 90-95 WD21 Pathfinders

    Posted · Edited by Charlie_Brown

    I took the hot terminal from the battery so I don't have any electrical charge through it. Didn't feel at that point that the neutral would be necessary since it is just return feed (my understanding at least)

     

    I'll pull the fuses just in case however, cant be too careful after all. How would you tell if headgaskets blew from looking at (or in) radiator? I should add that as soon as I went through the "lake" it hydrolocked on the other end. Didn't sit in water just stalled and died on the other side of a 20 foot water crossing.

     

    Only adding that because with that little of a distance I don't think the head gaskets could blow but I could be wrong.

     

    Currently have the air filter pulled out so it can dry and the case unbuttoned. All but bank 6 spark plugs are pulled so any sort of evaporation can happen. I'll pull the last in the morning when I can see. Too hard with it being by the fire wall at night.

     

    I rechecked dip stick, oil is still clean so at least it didn't get to far into the system before stalling. Since the water got in my engine through the air intake would you recommend I bleed my gas lines or would that be pointless? I'm just hoping water isn't in my pistons, I'd rather not buy a new engine yet :/

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    Flooded engine help

    in 90-95 WD21 Pathfinders

    Posted

    I am going to try to tape a straw to a shop vacation tomorrow to get more water out then try turning it over once more to shoot any more water out.

     

    Finally got the truck back home from a guy with a winch further up the road :D yaaayyy!

     

    Hopefully I'll also have the time to drop the oil pan and drain it there.

     

    If anyone has any suggestions for me that I'm unaware of with my limited knowledge let me know :)

    Flooded engine help

    in 90-95 WD21 Pathfinders

    Posted

    I stupidly flooded my engine with water while wheeling (thought the puddle wasn't as deep was it was). After pulling spark plugs out and turning it over water shot out however there was still a lot left in it. Anyways know the steps I now need to do to fix this. I've never flooded a vehicle before so treading new waters. I should add I pulled my dip stick for engine oil and didn't see any water bead on that, my air filter is soaked even after cleaning as much water as I could from it

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