The "O"fficial terminology for the phenomenon described by Blaine is
"Hydrostatic Lock" - also known as a seized up engine. This is why the
exhaust on semis have those little butterfly valves sitting a top the
stacks.
A former Roadway Express, Inc. employee.
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>Hey Charles,
>Water won't do any thing to an engine? Are you nuts? Lets see here...
water
>goes in the intake disguising itself as say...air. It makes its way
through
>the intake valve and into say a combustion chamber. Can you guess what
>happens next. Well since water doesn't compress (by no means) It
decides to
>bend a rod or two. Think it can't happen, I've seen it. The only way
it might
>not harm it is if the water is in such small amounts that it turns to
steam
>when it enters the chamber. A big gulp though and rods go flying.
>-Blaine Harrell
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