Been watching some Bengregers videos from Rufford Ford recently, plenty of hydrolock action!

Knock knock Who's there? Con Con who? Con rod

Very interesting! ~ you have carried out an autopsy on a dead engine. Thank you for showing us ~ I learned much from this video. Cheers from Adelaide, South Australia.

The main issue with flood water is having the air intake at a stupid low level :( Years ago you had the frying pan air filter on top of the engine.

The renter gave it a good old John the Baptist blessing.

Nothing worse than a set of worn out flaps

Everyone who drives through Rufford Ford needs to watch this, especially Mercedes Sprinter van drivers.

I came across this video by chance and said, why not? 19 min later and just your attitude and not super serious tone kept me watching the whole time, well done, from America.

Great to see a bloke so happy in his work !!

I'll have an eighth of whatever Alan's having, 👍

How much coffee did you had for today? Alan: Yes, coffee

Those Numpty's on the ford crossing videos need to watch this 😁

I love watching people who don't know about hydrolocking driving through fords at 50 mph

I thought it would be a trash can scene, but it turned out to be a ninja shuriken throwing scene!

Excellent video, My Dad told me when I was a kid never drive through flood water/deep puddles, you can destroy your engine, (hydro-lock) or damage your suspension ( hidden pot holes) . As you mentioned the amount of people who drive through deep water is staggering.

Spot on with your evaluation at the end haha

It always amazes me the power of heat on threads and seized bolts you can be hanging off something blasting WD at it and nothing, but as soon as you get the torch out and it normally always works great video Alan.

I am him. I am one of those people. Because i accidentally drove through deep water that only existed because it was a damn monsoon at the time. I kinda had no choice. I came to this video specifically because of that. Very interesting watch. Thank you for the content, Alan.

"Rufford ford" drivers have entered the chat

Now it's a case of trying to make the insurance company believe it was an accident.

Always a cracking video Alan well done mate 👍

Very interesting... think YT algorithm found you based on my viewings of Rufford Ford carnage of hydro locked engines. 👍

Deffo, perfect hydro lock bend shape in that rod, you'd think it'd run bad but they often sound fine till it goes bang :)

Love a good engine autopsie keep them vids coming 👍

Loved the hammer on the timing chain cover! 😂 Awesome when it don't matter! I don't think Chemical metal is gonna work on the con rod though! 👍 😂

I like the way, you realize...disassembly...and reassembling... cheers...

I stumbled across your video and channel 14 minutes and 21 seconds ago - I have been nothing, but satisfied with your content and how you never failed to keep me entertained!! I am subscribing and putting the bell on for you sir!

I saw a piston out of a blown up 2.8L V6 engine out of an 82 Camaro, and the rod was bent all the way around in a U shape. I had gotten the car with a blown engine and already had a used engine to put in it, the mechanic doing the swap for me was impressed.

Another great video Alan, keep it up!

You are naturally very entertaining to watch! Keep it up!

Compared to older engines, that conrod is a weedy looking thing. At the start I kinda guessed it was bent by the water,then let go. I remember a few years back a local guy flooded his old Peugeot 504 pickup 2.3 diesel engine that was also used in the Sierra,and that soldiered on for quite a while after despite having a bent rod (snigger*) Enjoyed the engine autopsy Alan. 👍

Hi Alana thanks for sharing that it was most interesting I will definitely think twice before driving through flood water

Many thanks, Alan !!!

Hi Alan. Always good entertainment from the Ford master 🤣

Al, love seeing catastrophic damage and getting to the root cause.. the videos continue to get better put together. Who's doing your editing?

Hey up Allan! Pug 3008 rear brakes! Electric handbrake do I need a scan tool or can I do it without it!! Cheers!

Love the enthusiasm 👍

Hind alan I love watching your videos.i have a t.d.d.i. 05 focus.i had a bright idea this week to change my anti freeze and replace it as I've never done it.i do my own maintenance.ive had 25 years of diesel mondeos and the t.d.d.i engine I can do most jobs on these engines.what drives me insane is how do you refill the cooling system without getting an air lock in the heater matrix.i had the same problem 10 years ago with a diesel mondeo.i got the garden hose down the heater pipes and fused the heater matrix out the hose fits inside the pipes.still the same problem in winter no heat eventually after a few weeks the problem seemed to write itself and the heater suddenly started working.now I got the same problem with my focus.bit cold at the moment to be crawling around under the car getting wet.wanted to ask have you had the same problem?is there a way to either bleed these cooling systems or refill the coolant a diffrent way like down the heater pipes first not through the expansion tank.makes sence to me the thermostat is closed so your only going to be able to fill the radiator at the front it should work it's way to the heater eventually. but it is a problem.can you help please.any videos on this please. I can't find anything related on you tube.i thought about unscrewing the heater sencor and using the hole as a bleed valve like a domestic radiator.you must have had the problem yourself with these mondeos and focuses.i don't have a compressed air line to put any pressure on the pipes.if you can help I'd be grateful.thanks.

Superb video. Loved it, specially as so many Rufford ford like stuff. Drive into water like they in a boat.PETROL FOREVER

Every days an education Alan cheers.

Rufford Ford brought me here 😂

Another nice video Alan. Mk3 engines very tough, but not tough enough for a water bath. Motto...'Don't take your Ford through a ford' hehe.

I had a mk1 v6 mondeo and I remember driving through a flooded road. I was on my way to work to start the nightshift and didn't see it till the last minute. I was traveling at about 40/45 mph. needless to say I didn't have to use the brakes to slow down! I remember wacking it back into first gear and keeping the revs up. lots of bubbling from the exhaust but I made it to the other side. the clutch felt a bit gritty afterwards but after a few weeks it eventually went away. my friend wasn't so fortunate. he had an old Peugeot estate with the 2.3 diesel engine that unfortunately drew flood water into the engine. a strip down revealed 2 bent con rods.

Hi Alan, another great video. In all of the mk5 mondeos you look after do any of them suffer from heated front screen not working as it seems a common problem with them and a video would be useful.

Great video, thanks!

Great, very informative thanks.

Interesting video and well said about drivers in floods...Two words Rufford Ford sum it all up!

Hi Alen, love your channel! Can we expect a Mondeo Q&A in the future??

Holy shit that was mental great stuff as ever cheers 😲👍👌

Pretty good it made it back to the garage !

Love your humor!! :)

Another great video! Love the closeup detail shots! Hate modern crank bolts - should be less tight and bring back “keyed” pulleys!!! Current “spinning” type pulleys is rubbish design!

Thanks Alan stay frosty..

Alan, can you blank the egr valve on these engines and if so does it help with the engine power?

Cool. Interesting info

Do you think these engines are better than the 1.8 /2.0 zetec that it replaced

I reckon a bit of plastic padding chemical metal a second hand rod and piston that a go again love the video you learn so much with this type of strip down

Looks like it's been through Rufford ford.

How much water inside the cylinder can cause this? Like a small drop or few ml?

Problem with the Mk3 is the tube that sticks into the inner wing from under the airbox. Water enters there due the low location. Conical filter is actually one of the times it's good for something as it's located in the engine bay usually. Drove mine through 30cm of deep water a couple of times, and due the conical air filter it was not a problem at all. And I drove slow and make sure to make a bow in front of the car. Watch how 4x4 folks do it through floods and you get the idea. The bow in front of you make a low hight area under the car which make more clearance for stuff like air filters.

Very enjoyable You’re nuts 👍 Keep it up

That pulley bolt....I remember oh so well. I had an engine with a broken no.1 exhaust valve, I tired everything I could to undo that thing, I broke several tools and when my mates impact refused to budge it, I decided on sourceing a new engine instead. They of course are known as a 'disposable' engine and that's why they do um up so tight....no woodruff key, the whole assembly is just compressed together. Inccidently, don't those Fiesta ST's use the same engine ? Excellent video Alan.

Amazing alan youre my favourite KZfaqr haha cheers

Very educational.

Is this the same engine thats in 2007 Focus 2.0 petrol and the original Fiesta ST 150?

Brilliant vid Alan really enjoyed it.

Great video 👍👍👍👍

Had a Mondeo Mk3 2.0l Automatic that got hydro locked by going through a flooded road in 2012. Was sorted by our mechanic and we must have been lucky as only sold it on last year. Weirdly engine seemed to run better after the flooding incident!

What a great week i got my heap of s**t van through another mot and a brilliant Alan video, happy days, Alan we are on the same channel my friend.

No way!!!!! I've never seen that before. Thanks for video Alan 📹 Maybe a 3.0 v6 going back in it??

Hope you are staying safe and well and how is the taxi business going and the same with the car sales as well

Bleedin' 'ell Guv.

Fascinating!

I watching this like, yeah!!! Destroy and conquer and throw in on the floor.. and that crank pulley “he’s fired” 😂😂😂 looked like so much fun!! 😂😂

Knew that was a fckin fiesta before the camera panned too it lol

Bit of sawdust on that, it'll be right as rain.

Another good ‘in.... cheers

Very good humour subscribed

Is that a factory exhaust manifold for a duratec in the UK?! Fantastic video! Another case of the loose flaps and a bent rod.

I have been here before, a car that had been driven through floodwater and recovered to the garage. Engine checked and spark plugs removed and cylinders vented, cylinder compressions checked. Engine started and ran fine, given back to the owner and owner advised. A week later recovered again with a broken connecting rod, my theory is that the con rod had been bent slightly during the hydrostatic lock and failed (a clean break half way down its shank) subsequently.

Great video, lets see what comes out of mine 2015 Chrysler Town and Country once manage to get the engine out, mine wont move so have to get it out with the transmission also as cant get to unbolt the torque converter, I am hoping the block is not damaged we will see. The water damage was done by my 19year old daughter driving the van in a heavy storm, she left for work and never made it past 2 blocks on a flooded street, water was not even that high but these vehicles intakes are really low, and also water may have entered via exhaust pipe; that was last August, car was at the dealer but the estimate for replacement and fix was 13K so insurance wanted to total it, had no choice but to get it home and decided will fix it myself as can not afford even the cheapest of street mechanic with all that needs to be done, so that how we are here today almost ready now to get that engine open; I was going to buy a remanufactured engine but here in the US all companies who sells them have horrible reviews by pissing their customers base so instead we decided we will strip it and fix whatever needed which is the super hard way for a non mechanic like me but what choices do I have? scratch a 30K car? nope! the only thing in my favor is this is not my first rodeo with rebuilding an engine as i did my wife 2004 Toyota Corolla which had a failed engine due to oil starvation and over a year and half later the car is still rolling so lets see what the Chrysler got for me.

Like a Bond Movie with Jaws in it the end

Interesting video. Good explanation! That con-rod looks more like Dennis The Menace's slingshot now 😆 🤣 😂 😹 😆 🤣 😂 😹

every Mk3 mondeo video gets :thumbup: from me :D on rusty bolts : i was undoing my rear bleeder screws from brake calipers, normally they are 11mm i had to take them off with a 9mm xD cheers Alan!

Bonkers 😜 But a bloody good mechanic

That's the return deposit lost on that 205 litre drum :(

That is proper banjaxed, easily avoided

mondeos generally run on 3 cylinders or Red Diesel

Is this automobile garage on a sea vessel?, because he is sure doing a lot of rocking back and forth

Was it a Rufford ford casualty ?

I drove into a massive puddle and it cut out, I sucked out the water out the inlet manifold and it seems fine, this is like 3 months ago. Think I’m fine or will it have issues in the future?

I wish I was a mechanic.

Wish I'd watched this a few weeks ago before going through flood water. I think I now know why I have a knackered Vito. 🤦🏻‍♂️

Lost my astra gte 16 v in a big puddle ait intake was in front valance great idea vauxhall

The same people who don't know about flood damage/hydro lock are the same people who cut you up on roundabouts also don't watch your videos Alan AND have a dash cam fitted at Halfords! Thee worst drivers on the fkn road have fkn dash cams fitted and think their driving is impeccable :(

Long time ago flooded my mk3 Mondeo diesel, had enough brains to disengage the clutch immediately, roll out of water, and not try to start it until removing the intake and blowing out all the water. Drove 30k kilometers after that, sold then. Lucky me. I think it’s because the engine was on idling rpm when I crossed water, so it just got stopped by water in cylinder and didn’t have enough inertia to turn further.

Old man went through a ford in a early Mk3 TDDi, was a lovely car but it bent a rod and that was that. Replaced it with a 1.8 duratec and that was a bit crap tbh, ate its piston rings at about 80K.

I've got the same engine in my mk2 focus, drove it through a flood in august and it bent 3 of 4 rods. I kept driving it for like 6-800 miles before replacing it, even drove it from london to derby and back. I've got one of the rods and pistons on my desk in front of me, I put a little grub screw in it to lock the gudgeon to the piston, and fitted a clock in the bigend. My old engine lives on in the form of a clock.

love it!

That fiesta needs a wash.