Hydrolock?

[Carrolls Ram]

Me and 4 friends were out muddin tonight and it was mostly water cause of all the rain we had. A buddy of mine has a QC hemi 2x4 and was goin through a big puddle on the trail and I guess sucked up some water cause his truck shut off instantly and wouldnt start back up. After lettin it sit for a few min and then revvin it while trying to start it the truck fired up but it knocks like crazy. Almost like theres a rock in the motor. So we have to drive through a few more deep spots to get out and when we do get to hard ground we're lookin at it and the inside of the intake had water on it. Then the truck threw p0301 cylinder failure a (cylinder 1) or something. So the question is what do u do? We towed it home to tire kingdom where he works so the boss can take a look at it in the morning. Any ideas of what to do to even start to fix it?

Up untill that point it was a fun adventure

[hemi1569]

Yeah i would say that he bent a rod...

[OneShortOf]

Yeah i would say that he bent a rod...

Agreed.

[daytonahemi392]

time for a stroker

[DaKing]

I had the same thing happen.

I had an aftermarket intake, exposed element. The filter was resting on the inner finder.

I drove through a puddle of water, slowly cause I knew my filter was exposed, and I did not want to splash. But I guess the water rolled over finder and saturated the filter.

the engine stalled. I sat there for awhile, then tried to restart. It actually started, but it sounded like a diesel, and NO power. I limped it back home.

Later found a broken rod, and trashed bottom end.

The whole bottom end was replaced, cost like $6000..

I ran that motor till I broke piston #3 a year later. Then I got the stoker I have now (actually my 3’rd stoker my first 2 had issues)

[Jacked Hemi]

I went throught that EXACT same scenario, bent one rod and twisted/snapped another. My suggestion is to jack the motor up, slide the pan out and get in there with a flashlight to see if you can spot the rod that is causing all of this mayhem.

[Jacked Hemi]

:bsjerk:

[hemi1569]

thought you were getting it steve

[Carrolls Ram]

You i'd say it needs a shortblock or a rebuild.

Net time...when the truck shuts off like that don't try to restart it. drag it out and work on it or work on t there. pull the intake and dry it out best you can. pull the sparkplugs and spin the motor over to get a much water out as possible. Then once your pretty sure you got the water out put it all back together and see if it starts.


I hate mud and water. I try my best to avoid it when I'm offroading.

He did that. Before restarting it pulled several of the coils off and everything was dry so we were hopeful that it just got a tiny bit of water inside to make it run like crap but after starting it, it sounded like a diesel thats missing oil. Couldnt drag it out cause of how deep it was. The other 4x4 that was with us had bald mud grapplers so he couldnt pull as good as normal and my ATs dont do that great in the mud lol.

But the boss at tire kingdom said the thing is completely fucked and hes gonna need a new motor. He's gonna order a new used motor and hopefully have it around tuesday so we can swap it out. I may be towin it back to his place later today and ill get him to fire it up real quick and film it. It sounds BAD

[fastgraphite04]

Sean may be making a trip down to Orlando soon. Let me know if he needs to load up my old stock block (you'll need a #3 from Jerry, lol)

[hemi1569]

Anyone know where i can find a cheap, cheap preferably bare 5.7 block let me know please

[daytonahemi392]

Anyone know where i can find a cheap, cheap preferably bare 5.7 block let me know please


I got one, but its in canada

[hemi1569]

couple hundred

[greychevy]

My buddy did the same thing in the end of 2004 about 7 months after he bought his Ram. Had a bent rod. It was when all the hurricanes came through so he claimed it on his insurance...cost him $500 for the deductable and another $500 to keep his old motor.