Posted by Howard H. on May 15, 2010 at 08:21:42 from (156.110.78.2):
I was cruising down the county road yesterday in my '97 Mercury Cougar with a V8 4.6 in it...
Hit a stretch of 2 inch deep water along the side - and it sprayed up under the engine. Immediately a big cloud of white smoke poured out the back - and the engine died...
Everything looked OK visually, so I started it - and it has a hammering noise in the engine now. I checked the air filter - and even though it was still in place, it was soaking wet and water droplets were everywhere going past the filter into the intake manifold...
I can't imagine enough water went down to the gullet to bend a rod or anything... But it has a very definite hammering noise - sounds like from up top - I'm guessing a bent valve...
But I don't really see how a slug of water could have bent a valve...
Any ideas on any other damage it could have caused??? It has 200,000 miles on it, so I've gotten a lot of good use out of it...
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