Into your heads and drain down into your oil pan.

 

Then it would've had to get in through the intake, right? How else could it get on top of the cylinder?

 

It's all purely speculation. Rebuild with new gaskets and forget about it. There is no way to find out once the motor is already apart. It sucks but you are on your way to a rebuild anyway.

 

There is absolutely no way that much water could've gotten into your oil pan w/out someone putting it there as well as the intake if the engine was buttoned up.

 

i bought an LT1 car that had sat outside for 3 years with the intake off. hood was closed, but the engine was COMPLETELY full of oil and water. i mean up into the lifter valley full. i drained around 8 gallons of nothing but water out of that engine before the oil started coming out.

just thought i would add that. water can drip on the motor with the hood closed.

 

If the foam weather stripping under the front part of the plastic cowl is missing ....yes. The cowl on top of the firewall that is.
Doug

 

I guess you guys are STILL missing this info. The motor was completely together, as in missing no pieces, as in like you'd drive it down the road.

Yep, it sure can drip ON the motor. NOT TO BE CONFUSED WITH IN THE MOTOR
If that were the case, this would happen to everyone on the board.Unless everybody but me has a car that's never seen rain.


Please just lock this thread.

 

Vandalism.

 

You probably knew the answer to question before you posed it but just don't wanna accept the end result. Somebody caught you with your pants down, while you picked the soap up off the floor. The cooling system doesn't even hold half of 8 gallons of whatever is in there. If it really was 8 gallons of water you drained out, I'd suspect a garden hose delivery method to either valve cover breather hole.
Sorry for your loss....later.
Doug

BTW, if you fix the tired weatherstrip under the cowl, water won't leak -on- the motor when it rains.

 

Doug, I didn't have 8 gallons of anything anywhere. It was the other genious that I quoted. The one WITH the intake off. No one said anything about the cooling system holding nothing. Please read the post before replying.

I'm just trying to rule out any possibility that I missed something on how water gets into a completely assembled motor before I put this guy in the $hit list.

 

Ok, my bad on the 8 gallons. Something doesn't add up here. You found about a gallon of water in the pan and a cup of water in cyl #8 and probably another cup or less water in cyl #6 due to the bent rod. And the only thing in the cooling system is antifreeze. It almost sounds like the water had two sources into the motor.
Doug

 

What do the cylinder walls look like? Do you happen to have a pin hole leak?

This happens quite a bit in diesel motors, not sure of the chances of it happening in a gas motor.

 

this "genius" wouldnt be asking the question you are asking.
good luck with everything, dick.

 

Yep.. that'll happen.

 

Doesnt neccessarily need two openings for it. Water will leak past the rings. So its possible that someone gardenhosed the motor, and #8 had open intake valve so it drained into that cylinder and then leaked down into the crankcase.

Seriously, if there is no antifreeze in it, and your headgaskets, heads, block etc. are good, it was vandalizm. No other way.