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Old Jan 22, 2010 | 02:12 PM
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super rich, causing two dead cylinders

ok guys, hydro locked

we have had knarly rains for the past 4 days, i was on my way home and inded up going through 6 inches of water, it was down the street from my house, and it stalled, i fired it back up, ran fine kept on shoving at about 1200 rpm and 4mph, stalled again, hydro locked

i pushed it home and pulled all the plugs out and cranked it over a few times, cleaned the plugs and fired it back up, runs super rich

i put some new plugs in cuz i figure the old ones were fouled and still runs rough, did compresion test, all is good, so i figured ou two cylinders are not firing, it also hapens to be the two cylinders that had water in them, only about a spoon full of water came out when i cleaned out the cyclinders.

i also have a cool air intake and were my air intake temp sensor is located , it got water logged,

i pulled it out and water poured out of the sensor
im also thinken the oxigen sensor could be fouled also , all the cylinders are runing rich, only two are not firing, and im looking for other opinions
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Old Jan 22, 2010 | 07:32 PM
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Re: super rich, causing two dead cylinders

ok will the O2 is dead get a new one
change the air temp too
dry out the wires
and you should be fine
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Old Jan 23, 2010 | 02:21 AM
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Re: super rich, causing two dead cylinders

ok i picked them up tday so when this weather stops ill try it out

thanks

same thing i was thinken
hope it works
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Old Jan 23, 2010 | 11:01 AM
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Re: super rich, causing two dead cylinders

have you done this befor?
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Old Jan 24, 2010 | 11:51 AM
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Re: super rich, causing two dead cylinders

Make sure you got all the water out... If the engine hydro locked, there should be a LOT more water in the cylinders than just a couple of spoonfuls, as that's barely enough to fill the dishes in the pistons. I might even go for new wires and cap and rotor as well... Check your spark on all the cylinders.
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Old Jan 26, 2010 | 09:29 PM
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Re: super rich, causing two dead cylinders

Also probably a good idea to change your oil as well the filter. Don't want water in that.
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