Hydrolocked engine testing on a flooded Kia. This Kia Rio was towed in after driving through a flooded road and locking up the engine. After flooding the engine became hydro locked. Watch as we remove the spark plugs to clear the water in order to compression test the engine for additional damage.
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00:00 Intro Kia Rio 1.6
02:35 Evaluate the Water Intrusion at the Airbox
04:02 High Pressure Injection Pump Di Engine
05:24 Removing and Inspected Hydrolocked Spark Plugs
06:30 Using Milwaukee M12 Borescope to Look at Hydrolocked Pistons
09:00 Cranking the hydrolocked engine to clear water
12:33 Compression testing the engine and finding massive internal damage
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If you post another ai thumbnail im gonna poop my pants and it will be your fault
ITS DEAD
The moment you blew air into cylinder 3 and water shot out of cylinder 4, I thought Houston, we have a BIG problem here.
a KIA model named after the work 'river' in Spanish is found to not favor being driven into deep water. The investigation continues…
Oof, The Rio got into the “rio” (river).
emptied sump right? first?
Watching that engine blow water out is almost like being at the Bellagio.
Mini Bellagio fountain!
i had a guy with a 300 twin turbo z did the same thing he tried blaming the shop saying i had messed up when i replaced his timing belt when i undid the top of both his air filters water was sitting at the top removed the plugs and water shot every where the best part that night on channel 4 news it showed a picture of the water under the main street bridge it also caught his 300 z sitting there with water over the hood His insurance denied his claim i will give Nissan credit when i dried up all the water install the plugs ne air filter the engine ran fine on 5 cylinders he bent a valve on number 3 he claimed he did not know that the air intake on the twin turbo model was at the very bottom of the front air dam he drove the car out wet carpet and all i went to channel 4 news and got a copy of that video and sent it to him that was back in 94 never saw him or his car again
That's a shame it's a nice car
Cranking an engine with water in the comubstion chambers creates pressure high enough that something WILL break (because water can't be compressed). It basically creates a miniature water hammer effect inside the engine. This pressure has to go somewhere. Based on the symptoms (no compression, gasses going between cylinders), I actually suspect there is a better than average chance the bottom end of the engine is ok. It looks like rather than bending the rods, the water hammer at the very least completely blew out the head gasket, and probably also damaged/cracked the head. Would require disassembly to be sure. But there's at least a chance it may have an ok short block. Either way I strongly suspect the cylinder head is toast.
Its More than likely all the car computers went under water as well Car is a Right Off
haha yeah. I used to live in Wisconsin where our house was right next to a big dip for storm water drainage. The city never fixed the drain so water just sat in this dip. Every time we had a heavy rain, we would see people try to race their car through this dip (water can be up like 3 ft deep) and quite a few times people would try to start their car afterwards and my dad would go out there and yell at them to not. Everyone of them would say "Must be a starter issue" uhh no, engine consumed water, and said water does NOT compress lol. We had a kid (probably in his early 20s) have is dads nice car (can't remember what it was) and I think we had to pull the plugs, lucky he was fine. Others, there were a few times people blew the engines up (rods did not go flying). It was great entertinment to see who would go through and not get water logged sitting on our porch.
Bad Bad memories 🤦🏼♂️
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That thumbnail is the most impressive Kia 1.6 that I've ever seen.
I would offer my 2 cents. But that would be more than the total value of a Kia.
I am wanting to say that is in the Bradenton/St. Petersburg area of Florida and if that was the result of a hurricane that could be storm surge that contains salt water. Water cannot be compressed. There is this road in England that goes through a creek called Rufford Ford. It shows clearly what happens when water gets sucked into an engine. Ray's truck didn't suffer the same fate because the engine is above the water. However, he correctly said not to do this….GREAT VIDEO!
I feel sorry for the owner, but.. at the same time; I do not. Rule #1, 2, 3,4, etc.. Don't drive through water. It's not a submarine.
We have a boat with twin 454s. An oil cooler failed and when I shut the engine off water got sucked into the oil. It did not get int the cylenders to make them wet. Changed the oils 4 times and it was still slightly milky. Ran it for 20 hours and it cleared up. Changed the oil again and it worked fine. Have run the engine 1,500 hours since then and it still works. Water like you have one would assume mechanical failure of rings or valve or head gasket. Be interesting to see the cause. Since it turns over without noise a cheap (A few hours $600) look would be to remove the head.
Just need an engine for those coils.
One of them Harris voters drove through a puddle
I saw this car over on Troy’s channel
went through water once, got lucky, did a little damage whrere had to get it towed the next day but nothing major to the engine