pr1286

96 accord, four banger, five speed, 180 k,

Went through a huge puddle too fast and cut the motor out, in panic mode i tried to turn it on, obviously didnt work, got it towed and have yet to try to crank it. Pulled the air filter, which was wet, pulled intake tube from throttle body to air box which had water in them, spark plugs had "milky coffee" oil on them from the water, my question is about seafoam product that takes water out of oil, how do I do this with out turning over the motor?

My plan was to drain the old watery oil out, add cheap oil with some seafoam in it and with the plug still out crank it over to mix it up and then drain again and add regular oil. Is this a good idea?

Also all I have done is have the car sit to try to get the water to evaporate, unfortuantlly its been less than a day and its all overcast so it has not been hot ANY help is greatly appreciated!

HonBeer

Never heard of a stock accord with the original airbox ingesting water. Are there mods that you are not stating in your post? Like a cold air intake?

tomw0

Your engine would have starved for air before it ingested enough water to do absolute harm. If you rotate the engine by hand, and it has no lockup, it should turn over normally. If you have leaky upper or lower O-rings on your head{dunno year/mod}, you would have oil around the plugs, and it would turn milky from condensation or H2O.
Use a 19MM and turn the power steering pump towards you slowly. You will hear compression, etc as the engine rotates. If you can, count the cam rotations or cranks rotations. One turn of the cam, or two of the crank, and you have gone all the way around, and are starting over. If it turns smoothly, and doesn't lock up, you should be able to run the car. You may have to remove the distributor cover and dry that out with a hairdryer before it will fire.
Pull the dipstick, and inspect the oil inside the crankcase. If it has water droplets, just drain it, and replace.
tom

MAD_MIKE

Draining the oil is a good idea if you did ingest enough water to stall the engine. If you can not turn the engine over, you should pull the spark plugs to prevent or relieve any possibility of hydro-locking.
You do NOT want the water to sit inside the engine it will not evaporate as the engine is cold and the internals will not heat up enough from just the sun.
Pour some ATF down each spark plug hole and turn the engine over. You want to displace the water.