Drying out a 5.7 hemi?

[Rob]

I doubt any of you have had this experience but thought I'd ask anyway. A guy drove his 2007 Chrysler 300 through some rather deep puddles, (like a foot deep) the last one washed right over the engine and killed it (likely literally) Pulled the plugs and dropped the oil pan (about a gallon of water came out of there) rotated it a few times to get water out and left it to dry for a bit. What are the odds of bringing this back to life without a complete teardown? Not even sure if it died in time before atempting to compress water in the cylinder and blowing out a valve or whatever wanted to fail first.

 

[brad2v]

I work at a Chryco dealer, we had a rash of of guys taking their Hemi powered rigs swimming a couple summers ago. None survived. As you know, water she no compress.

 

[johnparts]

Yeah the rods will more then likely be bent or broken. she's more then likely a gonner.

 

[Wheel Chock]

A compression test should answer your question pretty quickly.

 

[HemiEd]

Not good. I tried to compress Alcohol in my 451 once, it didn't work either.

 

[johnparts]

A compression test should answer your question pretty quickly.

Should read a minimum of 160 psi across the board. no more then 10% variance between highest and lowest.

 

[Rob]

Looks like she's dead, can't turn it over at all, completely seized. Don't know what the guy was thinking, Hemis don't swim ops:

 

[TrailBeast]

Sounds like more happend than just going through a puddle.

 

[pishta]

[ame="http://youtu.be/v0B1KgPZn0A"]Its a Shame..[/ame]

 

[Rob]

Sounds like more happend than just going through a puddle.

Like I said earlier it was about a foot deep and apparently there was 5 of them in a row, more like a washed out road I gather. I didn't do the tow, my son did.