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I am currently in Outer Banks NC. We took my 2000 Expy and my sisters Escape out on the beach for a ride with all the kids. My dad was following me in the Escape and went too deep in a water hole and floode the engine. He said that it sputtered first then stopped. I was able to towe him out after he made it up the other side of the hole. Whenever you try and start the car it just clicks like a dead battery, it doesn't even crank. Where should I start in getting the engine to crank? Any comments greatly appreciated. thanks fitzy67 2000Exp5.4 
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You probably have water in the cylinders. 
Pull the plugs and try to turn it over by hand with a wrench on the vibration dampener nut. I would recommend a complete tear down just to make sure everything inside it is clean and not corroded by the salt water.
Pull the plugs and try to turn it over by hand with a wrench on the vibration dampener nut. I would recommend a complete tear down just to make sure everything inside it is clean and not corroded by the salt water.
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Can't compress water so if cylinders are full of water chances are connecting rods are bent, which would mean time for new engine or a rebuild, but lets hope for the best like 99 said pull plugs and see if you can turn over by hand if so pull air cleaner apart and clean water out, change oil and filter and see if it runs then go from there.
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In order to suck water into the cylinders the air intake would have to go below the water level, or have been exposed to a good degree of splash. If this did not happen, then it's possibly just a salt water damaged starter. But definitely try to first turn the engine just to make sure it's not hydro-locked.
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I have taken out the plugs and even had.to remove the intake manifold. Found water in the back intk port farthest on the psngr side. Using a turkey baster to remove as much as possible the will crank eng and see what happens. Thanks for all the help, fitzy67 Pat
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We just killed a Jeep Cherokee going out in the woods this way. Our 95 Bronco went through a mudhole fine (had 11" of rain that was still evaporating). The Jeep however sucked up water, hydrolocked...bent rods ect. ect. The jeep is now RIP.
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Thank you all who posted. I cannot express how good it is tobe able to have such an excellent resource as ford-trucks. I ended up pulling the plugs, intake and sucking as much water out as possible with an antifreeze tester with an extension tube attached. I changed the oil, air filter, and dowsed the intake ports and plug holes with starter fluid. It took some cranking with the starter motor to blow out the excess water because I didn't have a socket to fit the pulley. Once started I had to run the engine about 5 min or so until the exhaust cleared of white smoke and that was when it really ran smooth. I think its running better than before. Thanks again for all the help fitzy67
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Thank you all who posted. I cannot express how good it is tobe able to have such an excellent resource as ford-trucks. I ended up pulling the plugs, intake and sucking as much water out as possible with an antifreeze tester with an extension tube attached. I changed the oil, air filter, and dowsed the intake ports and plug holes with starter fluid. It took some cranking with the starter motor to blow out the excess water because I didn't have a socket to fit the pulley. Once started I had to run the engine about 5 min or so until the exhaust cleared of white smoke and that was when it really ran smooth. I think its running better than before. Thanks again for all the help fitzy67
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