hello everyone. just wondered if any of you have heard of or experienced water being sucked into the engine through the bottom of the air box in flood water.
Yes.
Hope this helps 
huytonrefugee:
hello everyone. just wondered if any of you have heard of or experienced water being sucked into the engine through the bottom of the air box in flood water.
No, not until now anyway 
yep,done that in a 112,bent a con rod 
Also known as Hydro-locking. [zb] engine ensues. 
its not only confined to scanias, if it ■■■■■ watter in it hydraulics n summat has te give
have you bin thru a big puddle then
Any makes of truck with a dish type cover held on with wire clips on the bottom of the air box are susceptible to water ingress in not necessarily very high floods.
You cannot compress liquid 
Bent, breaks or bollocksed
Usually bent con-rod.
But we had an Iveco that hydraulic’d and it pushed the injectors out, snapped the clamp bolts!
The injectors were all there, still fastened to the now mangled pipes
We expected it’d bent the rods as well, but it was worth a try, so just replaced the clamp bolts and pipes, it fired up and ran right.
Driver never complained of lack of power so presume the con-rods were straight.
Yep, my Father in law locked the engine in deep water and when he was getting towed out being the tool that he is, he decided to try and bump it off which then bent 2 con rods
thanks all for your answers.
yes i went through some flood water and killed the truck.
apparently it has big holes in the engine…
water wasnt deep enough to go into air intake so we guessing the rumours of drawing water from underneath are true after all.
thanks again for your replies.
still in deep doo doo but they may go a bit easier on me when i tell them to check this thread out.