Taking bets on what my stupidity did

[Cooler]

Well plugs and oil changes didnt work. Got car to highway/main road and hit gas to turn onto rd. It stalled. Opened oil cap and plenty of water there. Luckily not quite a mile walk home. Came back an hour later and drove it home.
Last hope is to find out how to drain intercooler, change oil, and pray not too much damage done. I think i have gap insurance still on it, might come in handy.

 

[SilverSH0]

Well plugs and oil changes didnt work. Got car to highway/main road and hit gas to turn onto rd. It stalled. Opened oil cap and plenty of water there. Luckily not quite a mile walk home. Came back an hour later and drove it home.
Last hope is to find out how to drain intercooler, change oil, and pray not too much damage done. I think i have gap insurance still on it, might come in handy.

The PTU doesn't have a drain. In order to change the fluid you will need to get a pump and suck the old fluid out the fill plug (get to that plug through the wheel well). The vent for the PTU is on top of the PTU itself. You can find it if you reach up from the back side of the PTU just on the driver's side of the driveshaft. Depending on what year car you have the vent could be just an opening with a little cap or could be a hose routed up into the engine bay.

To get into the CAC you remove the hose from the throttle body to the CAC. It's the hose on the top left side of the engine. With that removed you should be able to get a hose down into the CAC. Jack up the driver's side to push all the fluid to the passenger's side.

 

[Cooler]

The rest of the story...
So last sunday i ignored caution and made improvised vacuum with shop vac and 1/2 inch water hose and did my best to suck out the 7 or so inches of water from the CAC. There was still a touch of oil like stuff at bottom, maybe eighth of inch that i couldnt get.
Changed oil and took her down my gravel lane. Tons of white smoke. I should have stopped but i was so frustrated. Hit gas and got up to 30 and awful screech happened. Engine stalled. Screw it i said and had it towed monday( i was able to restart a couple hours later when i came back).
Called repair place that is a $120 tow away from my house and the owner said he didnt see anything wrong. He said no codes, no more white smoke, and complemented the cars ability to get to 80 real quick like. His guys drove it and he drove it.
He said maybe a turbo or something had a bit of water in it but oil looks good they took from engine and ptu didnt have any water in it either. He said he didnt think checking compression was worth it because to him it is running really well. In fact he said maybe it just needed to be ran and driven to get the rest of water out and its fine now.

Ok so i live in the middle of nowhere and he is the only reputable repair place in the county. I dont have any family around so if i get stuck i am on my own. My insurance company, who i did not file a claim with, claims dept said if i did it would be collision which is 1000 deductible.
I pretty much have to trust this guy right? I will owe him for the tow and about another 130 for labor. I can live with that but damn gotta get the trust back with the car. I have no reason to doubt the guy but no reason to trust him either.
Any thoughts??

 

[sperold]

Sounds like a happy ending.

The shop you took it to sounds honest, and I think you do have a reason to trust him.

 

[SHOdded]

Save the oil for Blackstone analysis, change it 2-3 times at short intervals. Pull the pipes off the turbos, confirm the wheels are intact. That screeching sound is not reassuring, it may have been water/oil mixing, affecting the block and/or turbos. Fingers crossed no damage at all.

Sorry to be a wet rag.

 

[Cooler]

I honestly don't know how there wasnt damage, especially after draining all that watery foamish stuff from CAC. Oil cap was smattered with whitish foam. Guy said he didnt think i needed to change oil again right away. I will look up the blackstone thing u mentioned. Sounds pricy.

 

[Bronco2fan]

Being cautious is your best friend now. Blackstone report is cheaper then a new motor, or turbo. If you can, invest in one of the Bluetooth OBD adapters, just make sure it's compatible with your phone and download an app like torque pro or something similar you like. They give data and can read codes too.

 

[SHOdded]

https://www.blackstone-labs.com/tests-price-list.php

 

[Cooler]

Ordered bluetooth obd2 reader for $21.99. Hoping to leave work early to drive to car. Will call on oil test later today. So thanks all for the advice!
Saw a couple of more expensive ones that looked cool. If this one works well i may get the one that reads abs codes later for my truck so i can figure that out. Soon enough i will know enough to do some real damage to my vehicles hehehe

 

[SHOdded]

worst comes to worst, you can drop in the 2.3EB from the Mustang with a RWD drivetrain. Take that pig into the 9's LOL.

 

[SilverSH0]

The rest of the story...
So last sunday i ignored caution and made improvised vacuum with shop vac and 1/2 inch water hose and did my best to suck out the 7 or so inches of water from the CAC. There was still a touch of oil like stuff at bottom, maybe eighth of inch that i couldnt get.
Changed oil and took her down my gravel lane. Tons of white smoke. I should have stopped but i was so frustrated. Hit gas and got up to 30 and awful screech happened. Engine stalled. Screw it i said and had it towed monday( i was able to restart a couple hours later when i came back).
Called repair place that is a $120 tow away from my house and the owner said he didnt see anything wrong. He said no codes, no more white smoke, and complemented the cars ability to get to 80 real quick like. His guys drove it and he drove it.
He said maybe a turbo or something had a bit of water in it but oil looks good they took from engine and ptu didnt have any water in it either. He said he didnt think checking compression was worth it because to him it is running really well. In fact he said maybe it just needed to be ran and driven to get the rest of water out and its fine now.

Ok so i live in the middle of nowhere and he is the only reputable repair place in the county. I dont have any family around so if i get stuck i am on my own. My insurance company, who i did not file a claim with, claims dept said if i did it would be collision which is 1000 deductible.
I pretty much have to trust this guy right? I will owe him for the tow and about another 130 for labor. I can live with that but damn gotta get the trust back with the car. I have no reason to doubt the guy but no reason to trust him either.
Any thoughts??

If it was me I would be having the mechanic perform a compression test. It involves pulling the plug, installing the tester, cranking the motor, and seeing what it reads. With how easy it is to get to these plugs it should only take an hour or so. The fact that someone doesn't do that when you've clearly sucked up substantial amounts of water and had issues with that would concern me. That should be one of the first things a shop should do in my opinion.

 

[Jeff2017]

worst comes to worst, you can drop in the 2.3EB from the Mustang with a RWD drivetrain. Take that pig into the 9's LOL.

On the moon maybe HAHA!

 

[Cooler]

Got the obd2 scanner and took car for long drive today. Now i just gotta figure out what readings i should look at. Car drove well as far as i could tell. 25.6 mpg after 90 miles. Acceleration was fine, got it up to 90 a couple of times on interstate. Didnt have a chance to 0-60 or 60-100.
Test drove a base challenger...not so much. The 2016 camaro ss convertible was fun tho. But i am very underwater (no pun intended) on my car so that test drive was for fun. Aside from the new touch screens i still dig my SHO with the interior features, performance, and such. Although the SS did get 28 mpg when i wasnt killing it...

 

[Laser411]

Yep, surprisingly enough, my insurance covered a new Jasper long block in my pickup when I hydrolocked it in a mud hole.

I was drowning my tears when a buddy asked if I had comprehensive on the truck. When I replied yes, he told me they would cover it, and they did. I just embelished the tale of how it happened a wee bit.

What did you tell them? Did they cover it under comprehensive or collision deductible? Did it raise your rates?