Help guys!!

My truck was idling by the barn while I was grabbing some tools, while I was in the barn I heard the tone of the engine change and sprinted outside to find my truck rolling down the hill. I ran after it and caught it, managed to get the door open but it dragged me along and I couldn't get in. Any how you can guess where the truck ended up.......right in the stock pond. The cab was under water to the bottom of the windows (interior included) the flat was half way under. The motor died when the exhaust went under.....the key was on obviously.

Anyhow the truck was submerged for about 20-30 minutes while we got the 7610 4wd and yanked it out.


What am I looking at as far as fixing it back. Is the comp. shot? Do I need to tear the engine down? What about the interior? Tranny, transfer, and axle drain?

Help

Tom (with liability only)

 

WE have repaired farm tractors that fall through the ice.You should try turning engine over with socket on crank pulley. Turn it one complete revolution to make sure there is no water on pistons. You will have to drain all oils and replace with new oil. Electronics are pretty well sealed up, i doubt if 20 minutes would hurt them.

 

if the water shut er down, it wasn't goin in the exhaust, it was goin in the motor.... do not even think of turnin the key until after you take out injectors and then bar the motor over even then, I bet the psiton bowls will still hold water.... you may need to get a shop vac with a bit of vacum line on there into the cylinders and suck the water out of the piston bowls. turn that key and major repairs are just one uncompressible liquid away.

 

So Robert gets all my hopes up then you crash em!! Lol.... I am sick to my stomach.....not to mention light in the wallet! I can handle the mechanical parts of it I think I am just praying that it didn't hurt the electronics.....

 

hopes are one thing, but they don't help if ya end up bendin rods.......... safe than sorry, heres your chance at hindsight.

 

Man that sucks big time. Hope everything works out.

 

I doubt any water got in the engine unless it was going in the turbo.

Drain both diffs.

Drain 5spd.

Drain motor oil and check for water - if it looks the same, its a safe bet that no water got in.

Plus your draft tube was submerged and there is no suction on that unless it pushed water into the crankcase.

How long did it run while submerged?

I think you're fine.

Let it dry out and be on your way.

My 360 was stuck worse than that - '95 Ram on 37's with the water up to the mirrors.

Did you drain the oil yet?

 

give the electrics a day or 2 to dry out maybe put some heat to them so they dry out faster dont let them get any power mite short them out check the fluids for water then go from their. i've dropped my cell phone in water and cement and will pull the batt and let it dry out and it still works so their maybe hope yet

 

If it was in water (up to the bottom of the windows as you described) you are going to have a lot of work to do even if it did not get into the engine.

1st pull the battery cable

2nd get it into a heated building right away !!

3rd drain the axle's and the tranny

4th check the oil level in the engine and then drain it

5th if it was over filled or had water in it or looked milky you got water in the engine.

6th pull the intake hose off of the turbo and look for water

7th if there was any indication of water in engine or turbo pull injectors

8th get those cylinders dried out and then add some oil to them to prevent rust
also bar the engine over so the entire cylinder get's oiled (you can mix it with some #2 to get it down into the piston+rings) 2cycle will work also and be generous too much is better than not enough.

9th if it looks like it took in water while it was running i would do a tear down and inspection.

Get everything dried and oiled ASAP axles tranny etc.

If you have oiled the cylinders but find out you do not need to pull the head or a tear down before you put the injectors back in roll it with the starter for a bit to push out any excess oil.

You will also need to pull the carpet and seats out of it and get a fan going on the inside of the truck i would have it blowing up under the dash. Do NOT POWER ANYTHING UP BEFORE IT IS COMPLETELY DRIED OUT.
If water got up into the cluster i would pull it water will lay in the interior connectors for a long time they are not sealed like the one's on the exterior.
Your heater box and blower motor will be wet also.
WD-40 helps to displace moisture.

 

I know this is the least of your worries, but drain the oil , collect used oil to put back in first with a can of seafoam, it will finish pulling the moisture out of the engine, drain it again, and then put new oil in. I learned this the hard way too, kept changing my oil like 3 times before I put seafoam in, it would turn my new oil into pudding after one crank until the can of seafoam. You might be OK if the turbo choked on water, and stalled the engine. I think if you change fluids, and a good dry out, you MIGHT be fine. Don't for get the fuel tank, diffs,trans.. You have your work cut out for you for sure,Good Luck

 

Engine compartment connectors should be disconnected, blown out with compressed air, cleaned with contact cleaner. . The injecotrs should be pulled and engine barred through as previouslly suggested. All of induction system must be dismantled and water cleaned out....... Checking oils for water and change as necessary. PS, MC, diffs, tranny,fuel, engine, ect.
The real problem is interior. Cleaning, drying of dash and interior is almost impossible. If you could find salvage parts for seats, carpet and interior electrical components. The radio is not waterproof like the engine controller is. So the dash, radio abs, airbag, ect are main components. Roll back the dash and blow out as possible, spray connectors with contact cleaner.
Why not turn in on insurance and get it totaled???? Things do happen. Good luck, cause a year or so down the road you will be seeing issues again.

 

I don't think he has full coverage insurance on it.
If he gets it warm and blown out and completely dried out quickly he should have minimal problems with the interior.
From his description of the depth of the water and how far it went in while running i would be completely shocked if the engine did not have any water in it or was not hydro locked.

 

I see you are in KY.

Better have that truck in a heated building tomorrow and the next few days.

All those ponds of water caught in everything are gonna freeze and start pushing stuff around.


If it was running when it submerged, and it most likely was, the turbo blades will most likely be torqued out of shape.

Fan probably went into the radiator, as they always do when they hit water.


What color is your truck so I don't fool around and end up with it.

 

If you did get water into the engine I would clean it out with diesel. Drain the oil and refill with diesel and manually turn the engine over with a bar. I would do it a few times and then drain and add clean oil, drive a couple hundred miles and change again. I have done this on 4wheelers that have been submersed and it works good.

 

don't forget to drain the intercooler-if the turbo took a drink