ZC4ME

The other night, my wife was leaving work and it was raining pretty hard and there was an intersection in the mall parking lot that was flooded, she could not tell that it was flooded and drove into it hydrolocking her motor (CAI on a 2.0 FS-DE in a Protege). Anyway, a buddy and I pulled the plugs, removed the intake and spend 2.5 to 3 hours getting water out of the cylinders and the intake manifold. We were fortunate enough to get it running and there is no apparent damage, no knocking or anything like that. I drove the car about 2.5 miles to my shop and changed the oil but not the filter, it looked like chocolate yohoo and there was about a quart extra in there. I normally run Mobile 1 full synthetic in the car and had just changed it 1800 miles ago. I put some cheap valvoline synthetic in it and plan on running it for a couple of days, changing the oil and the filter, run it for a week and then do it all again with the good mobile 1 oil and filter again. My question is, do you think any minor water left in there is enought to damage the bearings or anything like that? I was fortunate enought to not have to replace the motor due to the hydrolock, I don't want to ---- it up with residual water left in there.

Ravage70

first of all take off ur cai

and i dought any minute amount of left over water will do anything

ZC4ME

Man, she has had the CAI on there for the three years she has had the car, it's never been a problem and she knows where she can and can't drive. The area that flooded never did this till they redid part of the parking lot to accomodate a new store and the area that flooded was so wide ------, you could not tell where it started or ended. I can promise you, if this would have been a turbo's honda and the filter was mounted right to the inlet of the turbo like alot of people do, it still would have ------- sucked water in. All I am really concerned about is the residual water left in the motor/oil pan.

darksol2005

if your that concerned about it, just change the oil twice or three times before putting in your normal oil. and change the filter too. also, why the hell do you have a cai on a protege

ZC4ME

18 and still don't know how to ------- read huh, why the hell are you on an internet forum then I said I was going to change it at least twice before I ran my normal choice of oil. My concern was the residual water left in the crankcase. If I wanted an opinion of whether or not I should keep the CAI on there or if it should be there in the first place I would have asked.....ASSHAT. And do me a favor, save your 18 year old come backs for somebody who gives a flying ----. You little ***** don't always know as much as you think you do.

darksol2005

and obviously you don't know as much as you think either cockbag. it's kinda common sense, if you think there's still water in there, keep changing the oil. makes sense to me.

ZC4ME

blah blah blah, thank you for playing, now go finish playing with yourself

45psi

yeah man, if your worried about that, just keep flushing the motor with oil.

B16CRXT

I agree that two or three oil changes should get any water out.

ZC4ME

Yea, I figured that changing the oil a few times would get all the water out, I was just concerned that the residual water in there would damage the bearings before I got it all out. Funny, insurance called me today and I told them I fixed it and she wanted to know if I wanted reimbursed for my time, lol. I should have said yes, but I said no, I want to be assured that if something goes wrong in a couple of weeks that it will be taken care of and she said it would not be a problem. So, I'm content for now, gonna change the oil again tomorrow and then again in 5 days to a week. She got lucky on this one