Sunken Treasure...

[MRandall]

Like much of the midwest, we had around five inches of rain a couple o' weeks ago. Friend of mine drove his super nice '92 D-250 right past a high water sign and drown it. He was on the front page of the Dayton, O. paper standing on the hood looking at his cell phone with brown water runnin' past the headlights. Great shot... Anyhow, insurance totalled the truck, he didn't wanna mess with it, so I bought for a song. Got about five gal. of water out of the pan, pulled the injectors, turned over, looked like a little fountain show. Changed the transmission and rear end fluids. Refilled the motor with used oil. Wasn't much water in the fuel tank thankfully. Unhooked the out side of the intercooler, turned the key and bam! she fired right up! shot a full 2 1/2" stream outta the intercooler and blowin' water all over the shop from the tailpipe!... ... Tons o' fun:-laf Let'er warm up to operating temp and changed the oil and filter again and she's runnin' like new. Only 127K miles on her. After a day or so in the garage with a massive fan blowin' through the cab and a little tweakage, all the electrical stuff works fine, save the power locks. Needless to say, I'm beyond thrilled.

 

[91W350]

If it had been me, the rods would have beed bent and the crank broken from hydro-lock. Glad to hear somebody has the other kind of luck! Glen

 

[dpuckett]

My mom got water in her intake on her 92. She was riding the brake and revving the engine through the water (almost headlight high), but it still died. I looked at it a week later, and noticed water in the intake hose and wet soot on the outlet of the turbo (small exhaust leak there). She'd had water in the engine itself. Nothing abnormal in the oil though. Come to think of it, oil is kinda cheap in relation to a new engine- might change it now that it's here. I guess the water got into the intake snorkel and into the filter. I'm buying her a new air filter, too.



We got 12" of rain here in less than a day, Mom was flooded in for 4 days.



Good deal on the truck. I'd still get the carpets shampooed, just to be safe.



Daniel