Here at the Ford Motor Marine Division, we scoff at those who didn’t recognize our unsinkable “bend don’t break” approach to producing the world’s first line of river car engines. The only thing stopping us is our collective imagination...and the height of our air intake. - Rod Bender, President of Ford Marine Division
Ford Marine is green all the way, we do not use oil but only water to cool and lubricate the engine. As an extra power option we can supply a water to air intake cooler to decrease detonation and maximise power.
Actually it was probably some democrat who bought a new jet ski with his money from cov stocks and he didn't realize you your only supposed to put the boat trailer in the water and not the trailer and car
I've seen a lot of times you were impressed that some engines managed to contain some level of carnage inside of the block without anything making an exit. I'd say this qualifies as the most impressive example of that.
Eric has a talent for finding some of the most blown to shit clapped out engines, and the fact that the causes for the engines failing are diverse makes it even more impressive. I love this channel
The same Ford engineers responsible for the Powershift automatic transmission, and the two-piece spark plug were promoted and placed on a special project to compete with Nissan's variable compression engine. One Friday night, they all met at the local pub... down by the river. What you have in front of you is their first attempt.
For all the critics of this engine. I made this engine go 243,000+ miles over a period of 14 years. If you don't know how to take care of your vehicle any engine will last you less than 100k miles.
Somebody bought a flood damaged car, let it sit around for a while then tried to start it. It fired up a few seconds and made a lot of banging noises, so they dropped the pan and shined a flashlight up in there and said “nope”. They kept 4 bolts to hang the pan back on it so it wouldn’t make a mess and tossed the rest in the pan. All the windage tray nuts and pickup were still hangin so they didn’t even drop them, they woulda been laying in the pan too. Thanks for the tear down video! I bought an ‘08 GT a couple months ago and this really helped me understand how this engine goes together. This is a perfect way for me to learn. 👍
Honestly I would love to see the crank out with all the rods and pistons reattached to it. That rotating assembly must be a true work of art at this point.
It takes a lot of force to bend a rod... I can't imagine the forces at work to bend most of them that bad. A few of them must've kept developing power/compression to bend the rest lol
I have got to say I have learned more about both how engines live and how they die from your channel than from any other source I've seen. It's been very instructive to see how different engines are designed and put together, as well as how people manage to ruin them. Thanks so much for a wonderful education. (And I loved that you did get around to taking apart the engine that I know is in my own Ford Focus.)
"Hydrostatic" drive... All kidding aside, very entertaining channel. I am about as likely to tear down an engine as pull my own teeth with a pipe wrench, but watching you do it week after week is fun. Here's to a great 2022!
At 10:20 in the video you could tell the rods were all bent, as all the pistons were not bothering to visit the top of the bores. That or this was the lowest compression engine I have ever seen.
I noticed this when he was turning it over. I know they leave some extra space on the deck. But most of them didn't even visibly reach the top of the bore
Back in 1960 my family owned a 1956 Ford Ranch Wagon, my oldest brother painted a piston with a bent rod that looked much like one of the rods removed from this engine, below that he wrote "Rod Bender" My brother was only 14 at the time but had real artistic talent, so much so that my father liked it so much he didn't punish him and left the drawing in place
The owner tried to make the engine hydrogen powered, opting for high-density fuel Di-hydrogen Oxide. Great tear-down, Eric. I wonder if they thought the power dropped off so badly because the plugs were damaged after making the car a shop-vac. Then after changing those out didn't do anything, decided to pop the oil pan to check the crank, then gave up once they saw the rods were Twizzlers.
that's honestly pretty damn impressive. lends credence to modulars being invincible to everything except lack of oil, even all of the issues they're famous for generally won't result in catastrophic engine damage (except the sparkplug cannon).
An 04 5.3 chev pickup hydrolocked . broke a rod, broke the block, and put a hole in the oil pan. never have i seen an engine BEND all 8 conecting rods. i've been a mechanic over 60 years. by the way. great teadown. nice job.
We're always talking about resized spark plug gaps, but these are the first resized rods I've seen. I was not expecting that either, and I'm surprised it turned over at all
Wow, wow, wow and...... just wow!!! That is beyond impressive. Judging by the lack of visually obvious damage until piston and rod removal makes me wonder how that engine had to have sounded before it's demise. I've seen many of my share of rods windowing a block from a hydraulic lock failure, but never one in where ALL rod assemblies simply bent without breaking.
@Alfred Wedmore That's some very impressive engineering on the metallurgy side as well as process control on the manufacturing side. It had to be absolutely perfectly done.
@@sheetwarrior543addmeonxbox7 - Yea....i know. Still both impressive failures though. The 4 cam bottom end was complete destruction, yet the valve train was virtually untouched. That's hard to do no matter how it happened.
This might have been the case of "this pothole can't be that deep, watch me power through it". Then it went in, came out and the car was like a smoke machine, except it was water vapor coming out the exhaust. I bet the engine ran a bit cooler in the process..
@@johnnicol8598 Or a way too confident/inattentive guy. Search for "Rufford Ford floods", there are more than 50 or so compolations of cars trying to go over a flooded bit of road. It's interesting to see the results..
The engine obviously hydrauliced. I've heard about this but have never seen the result. Only idle when crossing deep water. The proof is here! Thank you for the complete teardown.
WOW. All I can say is, it looks like she actually made it home. Whoever dove it really must have kept the revs low and babied it. I got very lucky when I ran my Buick in high water and stalled it and locked it up. I was able to get it going and it seems to have survived several thousand miles after that.
I've actually heard from several Ford guys contrary to what seems logical, the breakaway power of the impact is less likely to break a stuck 3V plug vs the slow constant force of a ratchet.
A piano tuner told me the same thing: the pegs for tuning the strings can break off if you go too slow. To overcome stiction without breaking, do it quickly. I guess impact wrenches are not as tough on bolts as one may think.
As the owner of a V8 Mustang from that era, I'm shocked to see someone tried to power their U-BOAT with that powerplant. Apparently they neglected to watch Risky Business, that's the kind of maneuver you perform in a Porsche 928... not in a Mustang. 🤣
Dude I love your videos, and your sense of humor. From setting yourself up for “that’s what she said“ jokes, to commenting on inappropriately shaped water pumps, to your sarcastic terminology on things like “adjustable length connecting rods“😂 every time you upload I already can’t wait until the next one. Thank you for bringing us this content
Can you imagine being the guy who installed that engine? They probably spent hours trying to start it! Then, in desperation, they took off that oil pan and saw all those bent rods? I don't know about you, but I would have to resist the temptation of to ying that engine though the window of the salvage yard office!
It's what we used to call when racing 2 stroke karts her in Australia, when you go through a mass of water across the track.........hydrostatic lock. When the cylinder gets a gutful of water & tries to compress it when the piston drives it up to compression stroke & you bend the conrod. Water doesn't compress & the pent up energy has to go somewhere, usually into the conrod. Simple really! BTW, that engine can be saved because of minimal damage to the cylinders & no damage to the rest of the engine.
Why bother with decompression plates when you can DIY it. Just drive it into the water until you reach the desired compression ratio for your forced induction engine.
I'm willing to bet the car had one of those cold air kits that sticks the filter down low, you know the ones that claim to add 50 bazillion HP when really all they end up doing is giving you a low compression 70's smog engine. I am impressed those rods held together, seen less bent ones crack and break.
@Michael Lorenz What the original comment meant is: having the air intake in a lower position makes it more prone to water ingestion when driving through puddles and such
I'm betting flood car bought at auction, but given a good detail before it was cranked over. So 8 cylinders full of water. Now if it had those bluetooth rods, and crankcase vents previously installed, everything would have drained and been fine!
I'll be happy to take one of those bent rods and pistons. I'd put it on my desk. I'm surprised that thing ran long enough to do that kind of damage. Very impressive.
Thank you for the offer of a free con-rod. I already have one just like it from a 2000 MB C320 that sucked in a water charge. It was a very rainy day on a 4 lane Hwy with poor drainage. I did fix it though, $ 10,500 later.
My dad and I were arguing on what displacement was. He said displacement is the amount of volume the engine takes in on all cyclinders. I said no it's not, it's how many liters of water the engine spits out after sitting in the rain.
Someone boosted the hell out of that engine!! It seen way to much boost at one point and time. Hydro lock usually affects 1-2 maybe 3-4 at most. Someone was either spraying the hell out of it with a really good tune, very unlikely, or sent the turbos / supercharger to the moon also with a really good tune on it. To bend all of them and not have it detonate was a blend of things and they were doing a pull with a little more duty cycle. I’ve done this to a Hemi engine that the customer said was “built” when it was just a stock rebuild with a cam. I’d have love to have seen when it happened cuz I’ll be it was making a BUNCH of power.
I see that this engine has the new version of adjustable rods! It always amazes me to see how bad some of these engines are even though they look alright on the outside. Thanks for the great content! Happy New Year!
I had something similar happen to my 1995 5.7L Silverado. It wasn't as severe as yours, and was due to a blown head gasket allowing coolant into 2 adjacent cylinders. As it turned out, when the engine was shut off, the remaining pressure in the cooling system was pushing coolant into the cylinders, practically hydro-locking them and making it difficult to start. Once it started though, it ran fine as the pistons were apparently able to evacuate any accumulated coolant through the exhaust. Anyway, I ended up with 2 bent rods, but it still ran surprisingly well.
I love these genius new engine designs. I've always wondered how a variable compression system would work. Now i know, thanks man! Btw I really enjoy your videos, greetings from Germany :P
Often this kind of carnage results from people driving forcibly into flooded underpasses, just because the drivers behind get enraged as the first driver stops and would like to turn back or reverse from an obvious hydrolock situation. Have being read about this far too many times in the newspapers here.
@@IncertusetNescio I used a reverse-turning drill bit and was able to get it to spin in the block and back out enough that I could grab the tube with needle nose pliers and get it out. There was some cussing involved. :)
Alternate theory: the shop that rebuilt the engine had some bent rods on hand and decided to install them. They figured if the rods in the left bank all bend to the left and the ones in the right all bend to the right, then it will cancel out and the engine will run smooth.
Judging by the bearings and the overall look of the engine, I would say that the car this engine was originally in was in an accident where it hit something with the front and ended up in water, say like a stream or pond or something. Not massive amounts of water, but enough. The engine ingested enough water to bend up the insides, likely all done at idle in a very short moment and then the engine stopped running. So the rods are all bent up, but surprisingly none of them exited stage left. it would explain the rust in the heads and all, the water level was probably right up to the intake but not much over, so the engine kept running just long enough to really, really make a mess. Could even be one of those "nose first into water" things with the car engine up at a 45 degree angle with the beak in the sauce and the tail in the air. Aside from the Ac compressor boss, the block actually looks good, which is shocking.
Wouldn't the engine have had to been open throttle and/or at fairly high RPM when first encountering the water to not have stopped turning at one or two waterlogged cylinders?
@@davidpowell3347 Possibly. However, that this isn't really an exit wounds suggest that it stopped pretty quickly, that was not a setup that could run very long without even more major carnage. I would think something like running, ingesting water, but still just managing to stay running and not get entirely hydro locked. But it likely got shut off or died within a short time period, say less than a minute.
4.6L's and the transmissions they mate them to are absolute tanks. With the abuse that mustangs go through on a regular basis, i'm surprised you don't hear about engine/trans failure very often. I mean, how often do you hear someone complaining about the trans going out in their mustang?
@Self Made Auto Soooo what engines do you guys recommend? I might not have a good frame of reference but after a bit of research google pretty much agrees with me. Its an engine known for reliability and longevity. Its easy to work on and the component placement inside the engine bay is arranged very well. I really do not know what you guys are talking about, because most of the mustangs I have seen the engine will last way longer than the life of the car. You will total a mustang before you blow an engine, and this even considers the fact that people abuse the hell out of them. Unless you are absolutely TRYING to kill the engine, you're most likely not going to.
That's amazing! Wow, all of the rods are toast. Happy New Year Eric! I've been working on watch all of your videos and only have a few left to go. I enjoy your videos, keep em coming!
I dont think this damage was caused by water. After the first or second filled up cylinder, the engine wouldve been unable to turn to bend the rest of the rods. I might be wrong, but imho this damage was caused by huge amounts of boost. The rods were bent one after another until the engine stopped (because of low compression).
Wouldn't there have been detonation damage if that were the case? (Plugs,piston tops) I think moderate amounts of water in all/most cylinders before nearly hydrolocking them-like driving in deep water over the road and gradually soaking all the cylinders
Some people see a flooded street and think 'if I go through fast enough the water will all fly put to the sides'. Unfortunately, there are 2 sides to every tire and you can't see the water fly under the car. The driveway is only a block away and they shut it down fast, after hearing bad noises. Then returned the engine because it was making bad sound and they didn't want to run it and 'make it worse'. Anyway, that's my guess, but what do I know? I love your channel. :-)
The connecting rods would make hilarious gear shifters.
No kidding send them to fab rats....
Perfect bend for an older T5 transmission, it would look great in a ratrod!
Yeah- hilarious- uh huh
Kmackay9554, shoot me an email at importapartsales@gmail.com and you can do that, got yourself a bent rod!
@@I_Do_Cars Just sent you an email. Thank you.
Here at the Ford Motor Marine Division, we scoff at those who didn’t recognize our unsinkable “bend don’t break” approach to producing the world’s first line of river car engines. The only thing stopping us is our collective imagination...and the height of our air intake. - Rod Bender, President of Ford Marine Division
Ford Marine is green all the way, we do not use oil but only water to cool and lubricate the engine.
As an extra power option we can supply a water to air intake cooler to decrease detonation and maximise power.
Actually it was probably some democrat who bought a new jet ski with his money from cov stocks and he didn't realize you your only supposed to put the boat trailer in the water and not the trailer and car
You're getting a rod and piston 😂😁
@@every-istand-ophobe6320 now that is funny...but only a trumpster would do sumptin like 'at
That's Awesome Mr. Bender.......That's what she said.....
I've seen a lot of times you were impressed that some engines managed to contain some level of carnage inside of the block without anything making an exit. I'd say this qualifies as the most impressive example of that.
Really says something about the sturdiness of this specific Ford V8 block/crank, would not have expected it to hold up this much whatsoever
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@Orell, shoot me an email and I’ll send you a bent rod. Importapartsales@gmail.com
8 bent rods... that's a feature. It increases displacement while reducing compression. I'd say it's a perfect candidate for a high-boost application
Nice one 🤣
Hell yeah just added 20psi of boost with lowered compression
@@johnsnow1355 i would say he more likely lowered the compression by adding 20 psi of boost lol
Eric has a talent for finding some of the most blown to shit clapped out engines, and the fact that the causes for the engines failing are diverse makes it even more impressive. I love this channel
@michael ruiz, shoot me an email and claim a rod! Importapartsales@gmail.com
The same Ford engineers responsible for the Powershift automatic transmission, and the two-piece spark plug were promoted and placed on a special project to compete with Nissan's variable compression engine. One Friday night, they all met at the local pub... down by the river. What you have in front of you is their first attempt.
For all the critics of this engine. I made this engine go 243,000+ miles over a period of 14 years. If you don't know how to take care of your vehicle any engine will last you less than 100k miles.
*Customer states* “I drove through a small puddle one day and now my car is acting different”
Okay, the sound of an impact on fast forward is awesome. PEW PEW
Told Santa they wanted an LS engine, but got L and S rods instead.
Somebody bought a flood damaged car, let it sit around for a while then tried to start it. It fired up a few seconds and made a lot of banging noises, so they dropped the pan and shined a flashlight up in there and said “nope”. They kept 4 bolts to hang the pan back on it so it wouldn’t make a mess and tossed the rest in the pan. All the windage tray nuts and pickup were still hangin so they didn’t even drop them, they woulda been laying in the pan too.
Thanks for the tear down video! I bought an ‘08 GT a couple months ago and this really helped me understand how this engine goes together. This is a perfect way for me to learn. 👍
Honestly I would love to see the crank out with all the rods and pistons reattached to it. That rotating assembly must be a true work of art at this point.
modern art
I agree with Cathy (modern art), it would make a hilarious Wind Chime!
@@hkguitar1984 OMG. Can you imagine how discordant striking a piston rod that's been twisted into a question mark must be?
It takes a lot of force to bend a rod... I can't imagine the forces at work to bend most of them that bad. A few of them must've kept developing power/compression to bend the rest lol
i'm imagining a whacky waving arm inflatable tube man
As an owner of a 2005 Mustang GT 4.6 3V ive looked forward to this!
I have got to say I have learned more about both how engines live and how they die from your channel than from any other source I've seen. It's been very instructive to see how different engines are designed and put together, as well as how people manage to ruin them. Thanks so much for a wonderful education. (And I loved that you did get around to taking apart the engine that I know is in my own Ford Focus.)
Wise man once said, "dont drive a car through a puddle as you may not know how deep it is"
Does anyone else enjoy the sound of the impact wrench at high speed?
sounds like a baby crocodile
Yeah, i pretend I'm firing a Phaser from Star wars or Star Trek. Lol
Pew pew pew
we all do ...
I do. Sounds like a laser.
These rods did the “When she misses on re-entry”💀
Took me a second 😂
"Hydrostatic" drive... All kidding aside, very entertaining channel. I am about as likely to tear down an engine as pull my own teeth with a pipe wrench, but watching you do it week after week is fun. Here's to a great 2022!
@ian, you got yourself a rod. Email me at importapartsales@gmail.com
Like hydrostatic X suspension on the old original mini's.
Amazing find 8 bent rods and it still turned over 👏
At 10:20 in the video you could tell the rods were all bent, as all the pistons were not bothering to visit the top of the bores. That or this was the lowest compression engine I have ever seen.
Looks like one cylinder made it close. Just sell it as the worlds crappiest 1 cylinder.
I noticed this when he was turning it over. I know they leave some extra space on the deck. But most of them didn't even visibly reach the top of the bore
@@skurblord3401 It still works as a V8. You just put some 7.3L glow plugs in it and sell it as a semi-diesel.
Yeap, also saw that.
@@skurblord3401 1 cylinder engine that kinda has spares.
Back in 1960 my family owned a 1956 Ford Ranch Wagon, my oldest brother painted a piston with a bent rod that looked much like one of the rods removed from
this engine, below that he wrote "Rod Bender" My brother was only 14 at the time but had real artistic talent, so much so that my father liked it so much he didn't
punish him and left the drawing in place
7:29 (takes off water pump)
“Looks perfect!”
Proceeds to yeet it out of existence
I see the folks at Chiquita are now making connecting rods. I'm happy to see the fruit and automotive industries partnering.
I hope the warranty covers Peyronie's Disease
The owner tried to make the engine hydrogen powered, opting for high-density fuel Di-hydrogen Oxide.
Great tear-down, Eric. I wonder if they thought the power dropped off so badly because the plugs were damaged after making the car a shop-vac. Then after changing those out didn't do anything, decided to pop the oil pan to check the crank, then gave up once they saw the rods were Twizzlers.
It’s Di-hydrogen Monoxide…get it right…LOL!!!!
Those con rods on this 4.6 engine went out on a bender! LOL Even they can't recall how they got to this condition...
4.6l 2 valve is very reliable
That engine looked happy on the outside. But once you opened it up, what a surprise inside! I sure was not expecting that.
A Urologist could retire fixing that many bent rods!
that's honestly pretty damn impressive. lends credence to modulars being invincible to everything except lack of oil, even all of the issues they're famous for generally won't result in catastrophic engine damage (except the sparkplug cannon).
Usually you can put spark plug inserts in to fix the problem
"I didn't even need the hammer" You sound disappointed, my guy.
This engine was seconds from Piston McNuggets.
An 04 5.3 chev pickup hydrolocked . broke a rod, broke the block, and put a hole in the oil pan. never have i seen an engine BEND all 8 conecting rods. i've been a mechanic over 60 years. by the way. great teadown. nice job.
I'm surprised that engine even spun with the breaker bar.
That was impressive. All of those rods bent and not breaking blew me away
FORD TOUGH BABY !! Lol.
We're always talking about resized spark plug gaps, but these are the first resized rods I've seen. I was not expecting that either, and I'm surprised it turned over at all
Not to mention that none of the rod bearings looked damaged. Absolutely remarkable.
I'm impressed that nothing broke. Well done, Ford. That was a lot of water. Thanks for the teardown, Eric!
Wow, wow, wow and...... just wow!!! That is beyond impressive. Judging by the lack of visually obvious damage until piston and rod removal makes me wonder how that engine had to have sounded before it's demise. I've seen many of my share of rods windowing a block from a hydraulic lock failure, but never one in where ALL rod assemblies simply bent without breaking.
@Alfred Wedmore That's some very impressive engineering on the metallurgy side as well as process control on the manufacturing side. It had to be absolutely perfectly done.
Don’t worry those are just the new high tech variable compression rods
The man who did this is a magician
Literally came here right from the other "worst carnage" 4.6 tear down. Impressive to say the least. Keep up the great vids. Awesome content.
That one was a DOHC 4.6L
@@sheetwarrior543addmeonxbox7 - Yea....i know. Still both impressive failures though.
The 4 cam bottom end was complete destruction, yet the valve train was virtually untouched. That's hard to do no matter how it happened.
@@christopherweise438 4.6l v8 2 valve is very good.
Thats one stout bottom end! It preformed as it should have Im highly impressed.
This might have been the case of "this pothole can't be that deep, watch me power through it". Then it went in, came out and the car was like a smoke machine, except it was water vapor coming out the exhaust. I bet the engine ran a bit cooler in the process..
Girl driver. Bet anything.
@@johnnicol8598 Or a way too confident/inattentive guy. Search for "Rufford Ford floods", there are more than 50 or so compolations of cars trying to go over a flooded bit of road. It's interesting to see the results..
The engine obviously hydrauliced. I've heard about this but have never seen the result. Only idle when crossing deep water. The proof is here! Thank you for the complete teardown.
So Ford is making 3 valve submarine engines now? Seriously that is a lesson in practical physics, and the compressibility of water.
And some strong head bolts and gasket not to let go,
Fluids...ie...liquids are virtually incompressible. Is why hydraulics work so well. Daniel Bernoulli
WOW. All I can say is, it looks like she actually made it home. Whoever dove it really must have kept the revs low and babied it.
I got very lucky when I ran my Buick in high water and stalled it and locked it up. I was able to get it going and it seems to have survived several thousand miles after that.
I've actually heard from several Ford guys contrary to what seems logical, the breakaway power of the impact is less likely to break a stuck 3V plug vs the slow constant force of a ratchet.
A piano tuner told me the same thing: the pegs for tuning the strings can break off if you go too slow. To overcome stiction without breaking, do it quickly. I guess impact wrenches are not as tough on bolts as one may think.
Yup you have to do it quick like ripping off a band aid
I’ve noticed this as well. Same way with allen/hex bolts rounding out.
I heard the same thing but still had 7 of them break off on my 5.4 3v
I wonder why people don't put a bit of anti-seize on the plug threads before tightening them to specified torque?
Looks like a good start for a stroker build. Preclearanced
As the owner of a V8 Mustang from that era, I'm shocked to see someone tried to power their U-BOAT with that powerplant. Apparently they neglected to watch Risky Business, that's the kind of maneuver you perform in a Porsche 928... not in a Mustang. 🤣
Well the owner of this engine was a former U-BOAT commander.
Seeing the 928 reminds me we need to see more of it!
Great work, loved the noodle rods from this engine... impressive!
Dude I love your videos, and your sense of humor. From setting yourself up for “that’s what she said“ jokes, to commenting on inappropriately shaped water pumps, to your sarcastic terminology on things like “adjustable length connecting rods“😂 every time you upload I already can’t wait until the next one. Thank you for bringing us this content
Really enjoyed the tear down , I don’t think I’ve seen any one TH-cam as specific as this one. Thank you 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
Too bad for the previous owner of that engine, but his loss is your gain.
Happy new year and keep up with the great video content.
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Can you imagine being the guy who installed that engine? They probably spent hours trying to start it! Then, in desperation, they took off that oil pan and saw all those bent rods? I don't know about you, but I would have to resist the temptation of to ying that engine though the window of the salvage yard office!
That was not what I expected... A fantastic failure for sure! Hey, at least you can say you've seen an engine bend every rod now.
It's what we used to call when racing 2 stroke karts her in Australia, when you go through a mass of water across the track.........hydrostatic lock. When the cylinder gets a gutful of water & tries to compress it when the piston drives it up to compression stroke & you bend the conrod. Water doesn't compress & the pent up energy has to go somewhere, usually into the conrod. Simple really! BTW, that engine can be saved because of minimal damage to the cylinders & no damage to the rest of the engine.
Some people surprise me. I never thought of using my Mustang as a sump pump. Looks like it got quite a bit of the flood before it gave out.
Been waiting for this! Its my car!
The good news is they obviously kept the engine well lubricated!
Too bad water isn't a lubricant
They also had an iron block version of the 4.6 3v in the 2009-10 f150. Interesting to see this teardown, nice video!
That’s what’s in my truck 105k
@@joncolley5320 awesome! A family member of mine has a 4.6 3v f150 with 191,000 miles still going strong. If you keep up on oil changes they last!
I've never seen a engine bend all 8 connecting rods and not bust the block.
The block still works. It even come ready for a big stroker crackshaft. 👌
Looks like she had a drinking problem.
Must have been a big hit of water at a fairly low engine rpm.Seems a shame,looked like a pretty clean engine.
Looks that way to me too.
that would be so cool to get a rod and piston from this. i'm legit impressed. please upvote this comment!
A steam engine probably did not put out as much white smoke but That seems to be an effective way to reduce compression for some forced induction.
Can't compress as much if your rod is shorter. * taps forehead *
Why bother with decompression plates when you can DIY it.
Just drive it into the water until you reach the desired compression ratio for your forced induction engine.
I’m amazed that it turned over at all. That many bent rods I would expect it to be locked solid.
I'm willing to bet the car had one of those cold air kits that sticks the filter down low, you know the ones that claim to add 50 bazillion HP when really all they end up doing is giving you a low compression 70's smog engine. I am impressed those rods held together, seen less bent ones crack and break.
What brand was the one you saw break?
CAI causes low compression? Are you sure?
@Michael Lorenz What the original comment meant is: having the air intake in a lower position makes it more prone to water ingestion when driving through puddles and such
@@michaellorenz7177 when it's to low and sucks in water and you bend or break rods then yeah your compression will drop 😂
@@vw5056 all brands will break, doesn't matter who made them, enough force and you end up with pieces of rods
There something about the sound those head bolts make.!! Love it
I'm betting flood car bought at auction, but given a good detail before it was cranked over. So 8 cylinders full of water. Now if it had those bluetooth rods, and crankcase vents previously installed, everything would have drained and been fine!
Those rods were pounded harder than Richard Simmons and yet still came out straighter.
I'll be happy to take one of those bent rods and pistons. I'd put it on my desk. I'm surprised that thing ran long enough to do that kind of damage. Very impressive.
Thank you for the offer of a free con-rod. I already have one just like it from a 2000 MB C320 that sucked in a water charge. It was a very rainy day on a 4 lane Hwy with poor drainage. I did fix it though, $ 10,500 later.
My dad and I were arguing on what displacement was. He said displacement is the amount of volume the engine takes in on all cyclinders. I said no it's not, it's how many liters of water the engine spits out after sitting in the rain.
Also you inspired me to stop looking for the common burger flipping jobs, I will be selling a miata transmission this week along with g35 coilovers
That satisfying sound of the head bolts undoing.
Someone boosted the hell out of that engine!! It seen way to much boost at one point and time. Hydro lock usually affects 1-2 maybe 3-4 at most. Someone was either spraying the hell out of it with a really good tune, very unlikely, or sent the turbos / supercharger to the moon also with a really good tune on it. To bend all of them and not have it detonate was a blend of things and they were doing a pull with a little more duty cycle. I’ve done this to a Hemi engine that the customer said was “built” when it was just a stock rebuild with a cam. I’d have love to have seen when it happened cuz I’ll be it was making a BUNCH of power.
I saw this happen on Cleatus McFarland's corvette motor in one of his YT videos
300 shot on stock block lol
Driving it into a lake at full rip will do the same thing.
I got a 4.6 mustang I really like when you pulled the timing cover so I can see how a wedge tool works
I see that this engine has the new version of adjustable rods! It always amazes me to see how bad some of these engines are even though they look alright on the outside.
Thanks for the great content! Happy New Year!
0:07 "05-09 engine" They were also in the 2010 Mustang GT.
No doubt this was water ingestion damage. That's pretty impressive to bend all 8 rods.
I had something similar happen to my 1995 5.7L Silverado. It wasn't as severe as yours, and was due to a blown head gasket allowing coolant into 2 adjacent cylinders. As it turned out, when the engine was shut off, the remaining pressure in the cooling system was pushing coolant into the cylinders, practically hydro-locking them and making it difficult to start. Once it started though, it ran fine as the pistons were apparently able to evacuate any accumulated coolant through the exhaust. Anyway, I ended up with 2 bent rods, but it still ran surprisingly well.
I love these genius new engine designs. I've always wondered how a variable compression system would work. Now i know, thanks man!
Btw I really enjoy your videos, greetings from Germany :P
Those rods "bent over backwards" to amaze us!!.
That engine had so much water in it, I'm surprised you didn't find a school of sunfish in there ;-)
Just one crappie
Maybe i'm just a big kid but it's funny when "looks perfect" is followed by slinging the part in the bin
I would guess, that engine came from Cleetus or Peg; Either way, that was "full send with ketchup and eagles into the danger zone".
Often this kind of carnage results from people driving forcibly into flooded underpasses, just because the drivers behind get enraged as the first driver stops and would like to turn back or reverse from an obvious hydrolock situation. Have being read about this far too many times in the newspapers here.
You must have been hiding a Staples Easy button off screen for that dipstick. You NEVER get them out that easily.
I broke one off in the block on one of my 2V 4.6 V8s during an exhaust header install. Made me extra grumpy.
@@fourthhorseman4531 Did you have to grump-drill it out or...? Not sure the procedure there.
@@IncertusetNescio I used a reverse-turning drill bit and was able to get it to spin in the block and back out enough that I could grab the tube with needle nose pliers and get it out. There was some cussing involved. :)
@@fourthhorseman4531 I fully expect profanities. If none are flying, you are either a "cool under pressure" person or are paralyzed with fear.
Alternate theory: the shop that rebuilt the engine had some bent rods on hand and decided to install them. They figured if the rods in the left bank all bend to the left and the ones in the right all bend to the right, then it will cancel out and the engine will run smooth.
Mechanic : That engine carbon clean service will cost you 149.99
Customer : I know a guy who can do it cheaper
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"But honey - it was only a little creek..." - And yes very impressive the engine held together.
Judging by the bearings and the overall look of the engine, I would say that the car this engine was originally in was in an accident where it hit something with the front and ended up in water, say like a stream or pond or something. Not massive amounts of water, but enough. The engine ingested enough water to bend up the insides, likely all done at idle in a very short moment and then the engine stopped running. So the rods are all bent up, but surprisingly none of them exited stage left. it would explain the rust in the heads and all, the water level was probably right up to the intake but not much over, so the engine kept running just long enough to really, really make a mess. Could even be one of those "nose first into water" things with the car engine up at a 45 degree angle with the beak in the sauce and the tail in the air. Aside from the Ac compressor boss, the block actually looks good, which is shocking.
Wouldn't the engine have had to been open throttle and/or at fairly high RPM when first encountering the water to not have stopped turning at one or two waterlogged cylinders?
@@davidpowell3347 Possibly. However, that this isn't really an exit wounds suggest that it stopped pretty quickly, that was not a setup that could run very long without even more major carnage. I would think something like running, ingesting water, but still just managing to stay running and not get entirely hydro locked. But it likely got shut off or died within a short time period, say less than a minute.
Fairly simple disassembly process. But that carnage is... I'm lost for words.
This must have been the best attempt at skipping stones from driver's seat in the middle of a lake...
Almost 90K subscribers for some cool commentary while breaking down busted engines!!! Who would’ve thought this 20 years ago!!!!
4.6L's and the transmissions they mate them to are absolute tanks. With the abuse that mustangs go through on a regular basis, i'm surprised you don't hear about engine/trans failure very often. I mean, how often do you hear someone complaining about the trans going out in their mustang?
They’re garbage motors. Like everything else Ford made
You're both very wrong.
@Self Made Auto Soooo what engines do you guys recommend? I might not have a good frame of reference but after a bit of research google pretty much agrees with me. Its an engine known for reliability and longevity. Its easy to work on and the component placement inside the engine bay is arranged very well. I really do not know what you guys are talking about, because most of the mustangs I have seen the engine will last way longer than the life of the car.
You will total a mustang before you blow an engine, and this even considers the fact that people abuse the hell out of them. Unless you are absolutely TRYING to kill the engine, you're most likely not going to.
@@Xehemoth tell that to this video 🤣 and he literally has a blown coyote engine on this channel as well
@@diablocls55 There’s a bunch of Mercedes engines on this channel. Should we not buy Mercedes either? Mr cool guy cl55 ?
The fact the rods bent that way and didn’t snap is so extremely rare. When powerforged rods bend from 2vs,3vs,4vs they snap.
That's amazing! Wow, all of the rods are toast. Happy New Year Eric! I've been working on watch all of your videos and only have a few left to go. I enjoy your videos, keep em coming!
Was trying to think of a witty comment but I've got nothing. Would love to see some more BMW teardowns. Hope to see more great content in 2022!
I dont think this damage was caused by water. After the first or second filled up cylinder, the engine wouldve been unable to turn to bend the rest of the rods.
I might be wrong, but imho this damage was caused by huge amounts of boost. The rods were bent one after another until the engine stopped (because of low compression).
Wouldn't there have been detonation damage if that were the case? (Plugs,piston tops)
I think moderate amounts of water in all/most cylinders before nearly hydrolocking them-like driving in deep water over the road and gradually soaking all the cylinders
@@davidpowell3347 Not if there wasnt any detonation happening.
Some people see a flooded street and think 'if I go through fast enough the water will all fly put to the sides'. Unfortunately, there are 2 sides to every tire and you can't see the water fly under the car. The driveway is only a block away and they shut it down fast, after hearing bad noises. Then returned the engine because it was making bad sound and they didn't want to run it and 'make it worse'. Anyway, that's my guess, but what do I know? I love your channel. :-)
Those are special S-Rods used for the super snake svt. More power.
Ive heard of being Under Pressure but msn the pressure in those cylinder's takes the cake.
How that engine didn't blow all to pieces, is really amazing! Built Ford Tough :-)
I wonder why the pistons didn’t come to top of bore, when he was turning it over without heads on.
Now I know!!!
Great video!
I knew there were bent rods for that very reason. I saw it, too, only I knew why. I wasn't expecting THIS much bent stuff! Wow.