Originally Posted by chasinthesun

Motors are savable if you act accordingly and fast once flooded,within 3 days I would say ,a week might not work ,drain ,remove carb. or everything above the engine heads ,open valve covers ,suck up any water ,spark plugs out ,the same,replace starter ,or get the one on the car tested , coat with marvel everything metal that you can get to with a squirt can ,refill with new oil and filter ,.(This is where sometimes its good to own a carberated engine
),all electroncal starting componeents that allows the motor to turn over .You wont be going for a start ,the idea is to get the motor to turn over to coat the cylinder walls and prevent internal siezing via rust.
I had 2 cars that I had to bring back from the brink after floods in 94 ,both had nicely rebuilt high compression motors ,a ford 302 69 mustang ,then brought back the 400 pontiac 79 ta,.Had no worries on the 4 spds ,just drain and fill to the top ,when the cars became road worthy you have to get them at their correct level.The interiors where refubished ,seats mostly .Alot of cars will be picked apart after Harvey .A sad delimea

It was interesting to watch as the draining of the motors was nothing but pure water coming out of the engine block . Water displaces oil.