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Old 01-15-2006, 09:21 PM
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not my car but my friends jeep


he hit a deep puddle...too deep..the engine died, water backflowed I think and it died. towed it back and well.....


from this:





to this:

not good. just ran oil thru for the 3rd time to try to salvage the motor










changed the fowled up spark plugs too:

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that will cost him some hp.
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looks like the wrong type of water injection

but I bet it was fun while doing it
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Originally Posted by corvettecrazy
looks like the wrong type of water injection

but I bet it was fun while doing it
we are on oil flush number 4

but yeah I was not there this time, that pic is from last summer.

still getting watter comming out of the damn thing.


and I put 2 quarts of ATF this time just for sh*ts and giggles.
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poor 4.0. youre gonna be getting water for a while out of that thing, theyre high volume low pressure engines and have you ever seen one out of the truck, THEYRE HUGE!
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Any idea how long it was under water?

Looks like some water, but not super foamy.
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