Water in motor

junkyardhero said

i can't stress this enough: turn the motor over by hand, do not just lean on the starter and try and clear it.

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I can testify to that advice. Head gasket caused a leak into a cylinder, cranked the engine and exploded the starter wedging a part of it between the flexplate and the block.

2500.00 later to replace the flexplate, (transverse engine.) And then the head gasket costs