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

[Hockster]

After watching the videos...I pulled my side vent cover off "DRIVER'S SIDE" and looked down in the hole.

I found this inside...it was not attached to anything just sitting there...It feels like a pieces of packing, but it looks like it should be attached to something, but was not...it was just laying in the hole until i reached in a pulled it out.

I don't know what it is or what it does? Is the purpose to stop water from gaining access to the truck through the vent? Which in turn could prevent water intrusion into the intake? I have no idea?

Its to keep hot underhood air from getting sucked in from the area near the hood hinges. There is some heated that can escape from under the hood.

 

[BigJ]

I guess I'll be the first to say it... something about all this just doesn't pass the sniff test. I'm not saying the OP is intentionally misleading anyone, but I can't help but note that (at least the 5.4s air box) is EXTREMELY well baffled to prevent real water from getting anywhere close to the filter. You would pretty much have to bury its main intake AND its drain holes in water and have the engine suck as if through a straw before water made it far enough to hurt anything. I have to assume the 6.2's air box is at least as well baffled? And if so, no amount of "splashing" is going to result in hydrolocking...

No offense to the OP at all, but maybe we're not getting the full story? Could be the failure has nothing to do with a hydrolock at all?

 

[Fred]

Its to keep hot underhood air from getting sucked in from the area near the hood hinges. There is some heated that can escape from under the hood.

So...I guess I should put it back? It was just stuck down in the hole...

Thanks Hockster for the feedback...I did not know what it was or if it served a purpose or not...

Fred

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Looks like a alien to me Fred.


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My boys saw it and wanted to use it as a target for their pellet guns...

Said it looked like a elephant...

 

[Hockster]

So...I guess I should put it back? It was just stuck down in the hole...

Thanks Hockster for the feedback...I did not know what it was or if it served a purpose or not...

Fred

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My boys saw it and wanted to use it as a target for their pellet guns...

Said it looked like a elephant...

I have mine out but, I have the hood hinge area plugged so hot air cant get in there since thats where I draw my intake air from

 

[Fred]

I have mine out but, I have the hood hinge area plugged so hot air cant get in there since thats where I draw my intake air from

Got it...makes sense...what do you use to plug the area?

 

[Madcowranch]

After watching the videos...I pulled my side vent cover off "DRIVER'S SIDE" and looked down in the hole.

I found this inside...it was not attached to anything just sitting there...It feels like a pieces of packing, but it looks like it should be attached to something, but was not...it was just laying in the hole until i reached in a pulled it out.

I don't know what it is or what it does? Is the purpose to stop water from gaining access to the truck through the vent? Which in turn could prevent water intrusion into the intake? I have no idea?

Fred, that's your wife's diaphragm. She keeps it there when I'm not in town.

 

[typester]

I guess I'll be the first to say it... something about all this just doesn't pass the sniff test. I'm not saying the OP is intentionally misleading anyone, but I can't help but note that (at least the 5.4s air box) is EXTREMELY well baffled to prevent real water from getting anywhere close to the filter. You would pretty much have to bury its main intake AND its drain holes in water and have the engine suck as if through a straw before water made it far enough to hurt anything. I have to assume the 6.2's air box is at least as well baffled? And if so, no amount of "splashing" is going to result in hydrolocking...

No offense to the OP at all, but maybe we're not getting the full story? Could be the failure has nothing to do with a hydrolock at all?

Ford agrees with you so far and is unwilling to escalate it to ford corporate...so I had to call myself. They are going to send an engineer to check the computer to make sure I wasn't going too fast through water(which I wasn't). But I see your skeptisism...the ford mechanic today showed me exactly how the water got in and it would seem far fetched to me as well but there is no way I was in 1/4 as much water as other are hitting in the videos on their website.

 

[BigJ]

I hear ya and I really do wish you the best of luck getting this worked out with Ford. Pretty cool I think that they're sending out an engineer to evaluate.

As for the vids? I'm not sure they're a good yard stick. I've (foolishly) been in far worse than shown, and survived.

When the engineer comes I suggest taking lots of pictures. Have him or her point at stuff and you snap a shot.

Again, good luck with this. If your claim is legit I hope Ford sees that and steps up.

 

[SaintsFan]

Good luck man.

 

[Fred]

Fred, that's your wife's diaphragm. She keeps it there when I'm not in town.

He he...that is wrong...

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Ford agrees with you so far and is unwilling to escalate it to ford corporate...so I had to call myself. They are going to send an engineer to check the computer to make sure I wasn't going too fast through water(which I wasn't). But I see your skeptisism...the ford mechanic today showed me exactly how the water got in and it would seem far fetched to me as well but there is no way I was in 1/4 as much water as other are hitting in the videos on their website.

Good luck as well... Just keep on them and do what you are doing...

keep us posted please,

Fred