A friend of mine added cold water too soon to his overheated 2000 Dodge Ram Van 5.9 engine.

I think he developed a crack somewhere. We eventually disassembled the motor in the engine bay to inspect it.

First he drained the water and oil from the crankcase. He did an optomistic oil change. Then he tried to run it. It ran like crap. He drained what was left in the block and rad. Then he removed the spark plugs and used a fixture to suck the water out of the cylinders through the spark plug holes with a shop vac.

The valve covers came off and evidence of water coming through the valve guides of cylinders 5, 2 and 4.

While removing the heads bolts I noticed a few bolts came off rather easily with no sound. We removed the heads and found 4 cylinders completely filled with water.

The fire ring on the head gasket was sucked in on cylinder #3 but it was a dry cylinder.

Cylinders 5, 2, 4, and 6 were really cleaned up well from water being in the cylinder. Cylinder #4 had ean extremely damaged rough ring around the top of the bore, just above the ringland. This damage was about 3/8 to 1/2 high and ran in a band around the cylinder. It was deep and protruding.

I think the motor is scrap.

Any theories of what else could be damaged?

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