Last week I tried to drive my '90 Accord thru high water and now it won't start. Does anyone have any post-flood tips. The car turns over and sounds like it's going to start...but never does. Any way to tell if water got in the engine?

Thanks in advance.

 

compression test it, while the spark plugs are out dry them off. if your compression numbers are normal reinstall the spark plugs and pray

you probably hydrolocked the motor.

DONT DRIVE THROUGH HIGH WATER

 

How "high" was the water? Did you get through it before it died or did it sit and soak? Is the carpet wet? Was the exhaust under water? Do you have a CAI?

Look in the air filter housing for signs of water. If it's wet, you may have sucked water into the engine.

 

The water was lower then my door, so nothing got wet inside. I don't think the exhaust was under water, but I did get hit by a "wave" in the front. Which was at the same time the car died. I turned off into a parking lot as it died and pushed it to high ground.
The air filter was wet, but no water in the housing.
What is a CAI?

 

(CAI)= Cold Air Intake

i think you have water in your motor seen your air filter wet

 

take off the distributor cap and blow it dry with air, take out and clean spark plugs

 

how would the internals of the distributor be wet from driving through a puddle?

 

Hey I just want to say that I did the same thing once and I ended up snaping to connecting rods. So I would dififinitely do a compression test to make sur that you did not break any thing internally.
good luck

 

1st clue, don't drive through high water

 

https://honda-tech.com/zerothread?id=686561

 

If yours turns over, it's probably ok.

Check the compression, and if that checks out, then it's simply a matter of drying and fixing whatever got wet.

For experimental purposes, my friends and I squirted a garden hose into a D15 until it died. We cranked it for a few seconds (~10) and it started back up. Several times in a row.

 

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Check the compression, and if that checks out, then it's simply a matter of drying and fixing whatever got wet.

For experimental purposes, my friends and I squirted a garden hose into a D15 until it died. We cranked it for a few seconds (~10) and it started back up. Several times in a row.
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thats not true. i had a hydrolocked GSR that i worked on that cranked fine but had 30psi compression in cyl #2 because of water.
and you cant just stuff a garden hose down the intake and expect it to hydrolock, thats alot of water, too much in fact.

 

IF THE COMPRESSION CHECKS OUT.

30 psi certainly isn't "checking out."

 

IF THE MOTOR TURNS OVER YOU ARE PROBABLY OK

thats what i was comment on.

 

I dorve in some heavy rains (hurricane) and my car died and I tried to start it and it wouldnt start so I had it towed and the next day I went to go look at it and there was a hole in the front and back of my crankcase....... I snapped a rod and blew a hole out the block but mine would definately not turn over so I would most certainly go with the compression test first

 

if it's quiet while your cranking your probably just looking at an electrical problem.