the engine can hydrolock
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Kn1ghtDigital@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
So what exactly stalls out when you try this with a car? Battery shorts out? Air intake flooded?
micgerne@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
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Kn1ghtDigital@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
So what exactly stalls out when you try this with a car? Battery shorts out? Air intake flooded?
the engine can hydrolock
CompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.de 3 weeks ago
In the worst case - Water doesn’t compress. Engine is a pump. Water gets sucked into the intake, into the engine, and the connecting rods bend. Catastrophic failure. The air intake usually is either high (level with the hood) or has a relief at that height to avoid this, but you obviously can’t fix this level of stupid.
It might be electrical, because it’s quite deep for those cars, but I’m not sure that’s the case.