Originally Posted by 95LSv
Well remember when I said that he wired the fuel pump wrong. This cause cyl 2 to flood with about 2 inches of gas. Then he started to crank the motor over, and we heard this frightful noise, he said its from the starter. So he proceded, heard the noise about 3 times. Turns out the we HYDROLOCKED the motor with gas, and luckily we only blew the headgasket. THe car was expelling a ton of white smoke and running all weird. So i came up with the headgasket being blown by hydrolocking the motor with gas, theory, that proved right... Well this sux. We already took the head off, he'll get me a new gasket and maybe resurface the head (having it inspected by machine shop). Sux that all these things were brand new... I never thought that an engine could become hydrolocked by gas flooding the cyl. but it makes sense... Well hope thats the last of my problems with this thing
Ahh hydrolock, Damn stupid Cold Air intakes do the same thing...
Hydrolock happens because liquid is incompressible, so it will happen with any liquid including gas...
Did you check your rods??? Make sure you do, because my motor got hydrolocked after it sucked water in through the CAI, before there were such things as AEM bypass filters... And my head gasket wasn't even blown...
My number 1 cylinder ConRod was bent like a banana...
Make sure it didn't bend it because if so, you gotta tear down the whole motor
Besides who does your work??
I'd make him pay for it b/c obviously he doesn't know what he's doing if he's cranking it with ANY visible liquid in the cylinders...