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Originally Posted by guybo
No, I'm not. there's no way in hell that gasoline can hydrolock an engine with the starter only. It compresses enough that it can't cause a bent rod. Water won't compress at all and will bend a rod with the force of the starter motor though. Plus the injector would have to be pretty messed up to dump THAT MUCH fuel into the cylinder anyway.
Unpossible.
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Have to disagree there Guy. Back in the day I had a buddy that was trying to get his slant six Dodge going after changing the carb. It wouldn't start and he figured it just hadn't got enough fuel yet so he poured some into the carb (not an uncommon thing to do) to see if it would fire. What he didn't realize was that the reason it would not start was that the float and needle valve were stuck wide open and gas had been literally pissing into the engine. His extra little bit was enough that when he cranked it he heard a horrible sound (I was not there at the time) and then it would not even crank anymore. When we pulled the engine apart we found the #3 rod bent almost to the breaking point. The other cylinder combustion chambers were chock full of fuel. The only reason the #3 gave out was it was probably the first to hit TDC. Since those slant sixes were almost indestructible I think that is definitive proof that fuel can indeed cause hydrolock. IF THERE IS ENOUGH OF IT.