HELP!!! 1000 miles and i think my engine BLEW UP!

[Raptor911]

he said this >> "we stopped and i immediately noticed that there was oil everywhere! it was dripping from the oil screw underneath the truck."

If it hydro locked, why would it be out of oil with no sign of anything broken?

I know that with the LS series of GM engines, water is the worst thing you can do to
them. Fingers crossed for you it is minor.

 

[pirate air]

Yep, hydro locked that thing up hard. Pull the air cleaner, if its soaked you know for sure. I'll be amazed if ford even considers covering this under warranty. No engine deals with water ingestion well, they're meant to compress gas, not attempt to compress liquids. A rod probably kicked a new window in the block and that's where the oil came from.

 

[typester]

thanks for the replys

I have no engine mods.

 

[mwright4679]

I was watching that megafactory video the other day and they had there raptor with water coming right up over the hood. I think they were taking it through something like 36" of water. You would think if the truck is bone stock it could handle mud puddles without sucking in water?

If it did suck in water and ford didnt warranty it i would be very mad!

 

[typester]

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Yep, hydro locked that thing up hard. Pull the air cleaner, if its soaked you know for sure. I'll be amazed if ford even considers covering this under warranty. No engine deals with water ingestion well, they're meant to compress gas, not attempt to compress liquids. A rod probably kicked a new window in the block and that's where the oil came from.

why would you be amazed? in there videos they take these things through all kinds of mud and water? shouldn't everything be water tight so this doesn't happen? how would it have gotten water in there?

 

[pirate air]

Hydro lock is when water/liquid (a considerable amount) makes it up to your air cleaner housing. The vacuum created by the reciprocation of the pistons draws the water further into the intake tract, down into the intake manifold, past the intake ports in the heads and into the combustion chamber. There the intake valve closes trapping the water. The piston comes up and tries to compress the water like it would normally do to the air/fuel charge to create a hot and efficient combustion once ignited by the spark plug. But since water doesn't compress very well, the connecting rod is usually forced to bend and then breaks after a few cylcles and/or the piston crown breaks.

Hydro locking an engine driving thru a puddle is like one of those random 1 in a 1000 things. You could drive thru 15 huge ones all different ways and not have any problems. Hit a smaller one just right and it all goes to shit. I wouldn't feel bad. I've participated in hydro locking several engines in my younger days and two happened in the lesser puddles.

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why would you be amazed? in there videos they take these things through all kinds of mud and water? shouldn't everything be water tight so this doesn't happen? how would it have gotten water in there? the 1st puddle i'll admit was fun, the splash covered the whole windshield but the second one when it blew up was tiny and we only hit half of it. it was also a 1\4 mile after the 1st puddle so plenty of times to show signs if it sucked water the 1st time...

I would be amazed because the raptor isn't a submarine. How can it be water tight when the engine needs to draw in air to run? The air horn is pointed towards the front, driver side inner fender. Doesn't take much for the drivers tire to kick water up that way when speeds are increased. The videos you're referring to, I believe the trucks are basically crawling. If I'm thinking of the right video.

 

[DirtNasty]

I was watching that megafactory video the other day and they had there raptor with water coming right up over the hood. I think they were taking it through something like 36" of water. You would think if the truck is bone stock it could handle mud puddles without sucking in water?

If it did suck in water and ford didnt warranty it i would be very mad!

I have put my raptor in past the door line in a creek (driving down the creek, not across) the bow wake was above the radiator.

0 water got into the intake (not stock, was rocking an old volant intake and it got damn close tho), 0 problems. I just think the OP hit the lottery on this and sucked up enough water so that it got into the combustion chamber and broke everything to hell.

 

[6.2]

Doesnt matter how deep the water is.

Think of I like this.

You can drown in 2" of water if you suck it into your lungs. But you can also be perfectly fine for hours on end I water that is 5' deep.

Same goes for a raptor. Can take deep water crossing (to an extent) but if it gets into the engine, it's game over. It doesn't take much to do it. Don't go blasting through puddles with the expectation everything will be fine.


You hydrolocked it, your fault. Not fords. I'd be 100% surprised if they cover it under warranty. And if they do, well, you are one lucky SOB. I honestly don't honk they should cover it. Just like they dot cover bent frames from people overdriving their trucks.

 

[typester]

Doesnt matter how deep the water is.

Think of I like this.

You can drown in 2" of water if you suck it into your lungs. But you can also be perfectly fine for hours on end I water that is 5' deep.

Same goes for a raptor. Can take deep water crossing (to an extent) but if it gets into the engine, it's game over. It doesn't take much to do it. Don't go blasting through puddles with the expectation everything will be fine.


You hydrolocked it, your fault. Not fords. I'd be 100% surprised if they cover it under warranty. And if they do, well, you are one lucky SOB. I honestly don't honk they should cover it. Just like they dot cover bent frames from people overdriving their trucks.

Just got done reading the Manuel for offroading. It says you can't go through water at any depth faster than 40mph that seems silly...so when its raining on the freeway better slow down to 40mph I guess. How would this not be warrantied, I was maybe doing 30mph probably slower due to lots of pot hole dodging...I'm sick thinking this might not be covered, but based on you explanation I'm 98% sure I hydro locked it.

Has this happened to another raptor? I'd like to know how it went with the dealer?

 

[6.2]

It's happened to many vehicles. And rain on a highway won't be enough to cause a splash large enough to cause any problems. Unless of course it pools up into a puddle.

It does suck that you are in this situation, and I can't imagine how awful it must be.