Saving a flood damaged engine and tranny

[whitesatinmopar]

Thats a lot of engines/lot of work and time. But for me I'd put each one on a roatating motor stand. Pull oil pans and heads, rotate to drain everything you can, spray with a combination of solvient and some kind of oil based rust inhibitor. Replace engine parts and fill with a light weight oil until it starts to come out of the plug ports, manually turn engine over. Unfortunatly in that cold damp enviornment it won't take long for rust to start.  I'd start with those 440's.    Good luck.

[darkhawk]

Okay just an update on the work.  tried the slant 6 engine in my wife's valiant and drained about 3-4 gallons of water out before the oil came out.  For a minute there I thought I must have been a dumbass and drained the oil last fall and didn't add any.  Then I remembered oil is lighter than water, so it floated up to the top of the engine.  pulled the plugs, removed the carb, rad belts and hoses.  Added diesel into the intake till it came out the cylinders and then manually turned over the engine, drained everything and added oil.  Hope it works.  Gotta drop the tranny pan and change the fluid there next.  I think we will do the 440's and some of the 383's next, probably will not get to all, bummer.

[lemming303]

I would suggest something other than diesel, water can suspend in Diesel. It happens in our trucks at work.

You might try adding some of that stuff that treats water in diesel to the diesel you are using. It may help, but I would find something other than diesel IMO.