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i have a 2000 trans am and my car just went thru some water from the street flooding and it cut off while going thru it i tried to start it after it cut of and it doesn't want to start, my friends told me to take the spark plugs (spark plugs had water on them) out and try to turn the crank which i did but the crank won't turn, we thought that maybe the starter was stoping it so it was removed and it still wont spin when we try to spin the crank. Does anyone know whats wrong and what can i do.
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The water ingestion caused it to hydro-lock. You then bent or broke some rods because water does not compress very much. I cannot know this for sure, but its all to similar to the story the guy told that I bought my car from. If you cannot turn it over with the plugs out, start the teardown
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Sorry to say but welcome to the club. The same thing happened to me about 3 months ago. Because you tryied to start it up (like me) when it was hydro locked you probably ruined your motor. I ended up cracking my block because of this I am now putting in a LS2 in her place. I'm sorry to hear this and wish the best of luck to you.