HYDROLOCKED!!!, HOW TO REPAIR FLOOD DAMAGE 2002 SAAB 93 TURBO !!

start by pulling all the spark plugs out , turn the engine over and see if water comes out , or if it even turns , then remove the air filter , drain the oil , and dry and reinstall the plugs , now oil and filter , and new air filter , and she should run if a rod did not get bent when it hydrolocked ! only way to tell is try and see really …this one was completely locked , and he kept trying to start it , it lived , so I say yours will too …

if he was not family , I would not have fixed it , he is quite stupid , and a marine , yes , he is one of the few , the proud , and in his case the stupid , he thought it was a hummer I guess lmao !

he kept trying to start it back , and it finally did start up , the only thing that saved the engine was the fact it was hydrolocked , but the engine is a turbo , they are lower compression , and the water every time he bumped the starter it would not turn , but more and more water went past the rings into the oil , till it cleared it’s self up , thats how all that water would up in the oil , the turbo having a lower compression is all that saved that engine really …

sorry that I could not be any more detailed , we just don’t have those here , but what they are and how they work is the same as the stuff we have here …if that makes any sense lol

honest first thought that comes to mind , is that the air filter is soaked in water , pull it out , and see , if it is take a short , non dusty test drive to see if that fixed you up , also did the fuel tank take on water , (i don’t know your van we don’t have them in the U.S.A.) check your water separator if it has one , and fuel filter …if the engine is electronic controlled it could be wet connections maybe , and should dry out …worse case , it ingested water , and bent a valve …

MORGAN YOU IDIOT!!

it actually ran with the oil water mix in the engine , what we did was poor the diesel in , and and shook the car like hell , then drained it , bit that a couple times , then we took diesel mixed with used oil about 25% diesel , and 75% oil , and ran it at idle for a couple mins , did that twice used 2 cheapo oil filters , then filled it with good oil , good filter , ran it for about 100 miles , changed the filter , then to 1000 , and did an oil change , we had 99% of the water out that way

Thanks


Q! How long did it take your car to start up after you drove it in the water. A week,a month, a year!

nice accent

If you names Morgan 😀

I doubt theyre the same price here, and even so those are rare cars which means parts are hard to find and expensive to repair.
But it always depends where you live as car prices fluctuates wildly from country to country.

Should have bought a Volvo.

Hi, i have a saab 2002 the same more a less, i think it is hydrolocked from the water. how wouold i fix what do i need to do.

If I ever get stupid enough to drive my car through water and it hydrolocks, I’m looking you up so you can fix it. Good job.

so when you first got that car could you turn it over at all with the plugs out or anything?

thanks man. I changed the air filter, i want to change the fuel and oil filter and give that a change too. Hopefully it will be ok. The van has done 180k and i only paid £400 for it so if it gives up ive had my moneys worth. Thanks for your opinion

Please help! I didn’t lock my caras such. I have a GM astra diesel van and drove it through water. It didn’t lock up or anything but after it was very very slow. On flat its ok but going up hills now is real sluggish and feels like i can walk quicker. Its a non turbo. Will it dry out or what do you advise? Cheers

this car is actually a very low mileage car , we wanted the water out of it completely , what we drained out of it looked like a chocolate milkshake , it was well mixed together , but it hadn’t been driven over 2-3 miles that way , being very easy on it , it had also only ran synthetic oil since new , thats why we did not use conventional motor oil in it , we have seen rear and front mains start leaking after going back to conventional oil from synthetic in the past , better safe than sorry…

did you actually run that engine with diesel fuel in the crank case?? If you were worried that there was still water in there you should have just ran cheap oil for a couple hundred miles instead of syn.. either way, the moisture would have eventually evaporated and ended up being burned through the pcv valve?

wasn’t my car , I did not do this , an idiot named morgan did it , we fixed it , he tried to start it after he sucked it full of water , it locked up , with booster cables and about 10 min of effort I got it started , trying to start a engine that is hyrolocked can bend rods ect. if you don’t remove the spark plugs first , but where he had already tried to start it , there was no risk for me trying , because if it was going to hurt it , he already would have by trying it himself!

Wish I had been this lucky with my car. The real damage happened when i tried to restart the car after the air induction sucked up the water, con rods just bent, if I had known not to do that i wouldn’t have needed a new engine.

he should have bought something that was practical , and not riddled with issues , as you might guess we are free labor , and get to tow it , and repair it for free , so when you do these things , and are family , you catch hell for it , just how it goes lol

who cares they buy watever they want

A 1985 mustang svo a.k.a. the 1985 merjur xr4ti. sure they aren’t fwd p.o.s. Lol but they would both give a viggen a run for its money. All three are around the same price.