Help Please!!!!!

[mattyacks]

Ok i made a thread abou this before, how my car wouldnt satrt after driving through a huge puddle. Well here it goes, i finally got it started, i changed the plugs and oil. When i get on the gas and start moving quick, there is a clunky grinding noise kinda. Its a horrible sound. I have no idea what it is. Any ideas?????? By the way im gonna change oil again becasue it looks like coffe when i looked at it again.

[bigbrian442]

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You may have bent a connecting rod or damaged a piston when you filled the motor with water. Water doesn't compress.

[Smoke Panther]

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what exactly happened when you drove thru the "big puddle"....Did the car stall right then? If so, did you immediately try and start the car again? If your answer is "yes" and "yes," then you more than likely damaged the internals of the engine

[mattyacks]

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****. What can i do about this, i need help big time.

[mattyacks]

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When i rev the engine in Place it doesnt make the sound. Only when i am moving. I also put to much oil in. would that affect it?????.

[Smoke Panther]

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****. What can i do about this, i need help big time.

Answer my question

what exactly happened when you drove thru the "big puddle"....Did the car stall right then? If so, did you immediately try and start the car again?

[landj]

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I'd like to hear the answer to Smoke Panther's Q, but you may want to change the transmission fluid and filter too just for good measure, I just highly doubt that water is in the tranny since there is only a little vent tube where water could get in. Good idea to change oil again if it looks bad. Check to be sure the noise is from the engine and not wheel bearings, brakes, suspension joints.

Water and cars don't mix well. Even the Amphicar required service just about every time it was taken into and out of the water, and it was built for water.

[cam98aro]

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he said it stalled right when he drove though the puddle

im betting on he sucked water up and bent a rod or something

thats not good at all

depending on how bad it really was you could be looking at getting a new engine

[mattyacks]

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Yea i did try to start it. when it makes that noise it doesnt affect the performance at all.

[2002steen]

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my buddy last week ran threw water in his 97 mustang and sucked water up his intake his motor stall and then would not start once he got it to start there was a bad clunking noise tore the motor down and he bent a rod and broke the skirt on the piston. kinda sound like what mattyacks did might wanna check it out ASAP! and i probably wouldn't be driving the car around or reving it up.

[josh98bird]

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jesus son... was it a puddle or a lake? Don't drive the car... have it towed to someone who knows what they are doing so they can inspect before further damage is done. Good luck and best wishes.

[Smoke Panther]

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he said it stalled right when he drove though the puddle

Yea i did try to start it.

Pardon my french, but your engine is fcuked. There's the strong possibility that you bent many of the internal components, and are aggrivating your car's condition by running hard enough to tell if there's a performace difference

[96firebird311]

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Unless you already have major performance upgrades to your car....time to trade it in....:(

[landj]

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Don't freak him out. Just one thing at a time. I would think if anything is messed up internally, his repair bill isn't going to be much higher from continuing to run it at this point.

Have you figured out where the grinding noise is coming from?

[mattyacks]

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Dear god. how much am i looking at?????? i havent found out where the noise is coming from.