My friends pick up has water in the oil. We check the oil dip stick and oil cap and its has water/oil.

1991 Toyota Pickup V6 3.0l 4x4

A couple of friends and I went to Azusa to the Canyons. We drove down and crossed the river several times. When we got to the main site where there were a ton of Chevy trucks mudding, we decided to stay back and watch the show. After a couple of hrs we decided to go mudding too. Unfortunately my friend went into a puddle of water and his starter gave out. (It was already going out) took us several of minutes to pull out since it was right in the middle of the puddle. Long story short I pulled him all the way out the canyon and all the way home. By the way we live in Azusa so we were not far. When we got home the truck finally decides to turn on. but it was running sluggish and there was white smoke coming out the exhaust pipe. We check the air filter and it was soaked. We just let it sit till th next day.

Today morning we check the oil and like i said before there is water in the oil that went in through the air filter.

So my question is WHAT NOW? Do we rebuild heads? New Gaskets? Drain oil and put in new oil? What solutions am i looking at? Thanks For any feedback.

 

Does it still run sluggish? If not i would drain and fill all your fluids. But you could have bent a rod when it sucked the water....compression test could find a bent rod if all the rest are even.

 

x2 on fluid drain. You might be lucky and just sucked some water down the intake with little damage. Drain oil and any other liquid that looks contaminated and refill. You might need to warm up the engine to drain completely... but not sure since that might make things worse.

 

thanks guys! im going to drain it and add new oil hopefully all goes well for my friend. he just spent a ton of $$4 getting it fixed to pass his smog. appreciate the feedback!

Will post back on what happens after oil drain and re-fill.

 

The only connection from the induction system to the crankcase is through the PCV valve, which (if working at all) prevents anything from going INTO the crankcase. So it is unlikely that the water in the oil is from the puddle.

BUT, if this truck sucked in any water at all (and the wet air filter says it did), it probably hydrolocked, and if lucky blew the head gasket (if not so lucky, bent a connecting rod, etc). The white smoke you see is probably coolant sucked into the cylinder past the now-busted head gasket.

Replacing the oil has to be done eventually, of course, but before I threw away 5 quarts of old dinosaurs I'd do a compression check. I think you're in for a head job.