Hydrolocked engine..need advice

[ninspeed]

Originally posted by Primer_Drift
Just keep at them, or threaten to buy a Toyota.. they'll take that personally

For what it's worth I believe your story, weird shit can happen. GM engineers should have made the airbox better, period.

are you defective? has you seen the air box? it works fine.. i have taken tons of diffrent GM trucks though huge puddles, and small streams.. hell i had water come in the cab of an 03 i took out 4x4.. and no hydrolocking... It was was no fault of GM, and should not be covred under warranty.. Thats why you have insurance, for shit like this. Ya it sucks, but its not a cheep bill (for a bill that big, its got more damage than just water built up in the cyls... probally a nice bent rod, and more)

[CryoCarnage]

no no, if it is driver mistake, then insurance would cover it. But since a freakin Accord made it through, you might just want to fight for your right.... to paaaaarrrrttaaaeeee. Nah but seriously though, if its new, try to find the source first and it can be a factory malfunction.

[Primer_Drift]

Originally posted by ninspeed

are you defective? has you seen the air box?

Yes, and yes I has...

If GM can't engineer a simple bypass valve into a truck's airbox they need to do better. You shouldn't need to have your insurance to cover a crappy design...

[black j]

I'm with some others, I've got 2000 Z-71. It has an almost identical airbox. I can tell you that with no lift and 33" tires. So much lower than a truck w/ a 6" suspension lift. I've forded water over 2 and 1/2 feet deep with no issues.
So I understand why the dealer is having difficulty buying the story.

[Tomaz]

2003 Avalanche, put that thing through some hell in my back yard in my lil swampland. Never did take in water.

The only thing i could think of is if it got sucked in through the intake whick would have to be submerged. Another thing it could be possably the airbox doesn't proparly tighten. Those things are not water proof whatsoever.

But to talk abotut he amount of water in the cylinders..... One of the Sensor hoses falling off??? Then the hose turnes into a straw and hydrolock wouldn't be your only problem.

[RickDaTuner]

I think your just trying to get all possible scenarios out of people so you can prepare yourself for when you confront the dealer again....

that Intake would have to be submerged in order to hydro lock an engine, even if if was just getting water splashed up into the intake, the engine would ingest and expel the water as if nothing happened... its not uncommon to have any amounts of water pass through and engine cylinder, heck when it rains your car ingests water, but again its only when the intake is fully submerged that you result in Hydro lock