Just on Friday i was helping my friend with his '71 Mustang.
This spring we put a new 351W in the car, along with all new accessories and a new tranny was also put in. The car sat for awhile (rustbucket with bad brakes) and wasn't ran. We went to drive it from the shop to his house. It had been sitting outside all winter.
It started up with a fresh battery and a few sprays of ehter. Last time we had started it, alot of steam had started coming out of the breather and seeping out along the edges of the valve covers. The only thing we could think of was that it may have gotten a little water in the oil since it had been sitting outside for so long.

Well, about 3 miles into the journey home, i was following him, and noitced black smoke coming out the exhaust. He pulled over, and steam was coming out from under the hood. The car would barley crank over.

We pulled it home, and checked the water. It was bone dry....when water was poured in, it could clearly be seen and heard coming out the back of the block and going on the ground :eek:

Turned out the car was filled with water this summer, not antifreeze, and it froze in the freezing weather and pushed out a freeze plug. The temp guage wasn't reading hot becuase there was no water for it to get a reading from, just steam!

Luckily the motor is fine.....just needs a freeze plug :D

Please.....don't put just H20 in your engine :bowtie:

Now thats what I call float bowl flooding.:D

Lucas,

I had my 86 shipped up from Arizona in January. The very first thing I did after it rolled off the trailer was open up the radiator. LOL There was green in there but I drained it and re filled it and ran it immediately. I wasn't going to take any chances.

Good move. I have frozen 6 engines to date. (2 of them in Tx!) So far I have been lucky that non of them cracked the block, or even popped out a freeze plug.
I doubt any of them froze solid. Just slushey enough to keep the water pump from moving and cold enough to freeze the stiff in the rad.