How long will a car engine work underwater? 

Need to try this with a diesel

It wouldn't be a Garage54 video without Vlad's signature *_"OYOYOYOY!!!"_* lol Someone should make a compilation or remix of them 😁

Dunk the engine after disabling the water pump, and see if the water surrounding the engine is enough to keep it cool.

This is how they used to water cool engines before they invented radiators

probably needs new HT leads - old ones get cracked & when the crack hits the water it will short - as soon as you take it out of the water it will no longer short

Chrisfix:"Be carefull not to get water into your engine's electrical system" Garage 54: **Happily dipping their running Lada engine in water like it's their everyday routine**

Lada=submarine confirmed

This is more like “how to make a hot tub with an engine” Russia style

I never wanted a Russian car before seeing a Garage 54 video. Now I really want a Lada, I do not care how they look, as long as they are as dependable & durable as they appear to be on here LOL

Make a working transparent gearbox.

These videos are under appreciated, one of the most interesting and entertaining car related shows on the tube.

Next Project: Drive a Lada on the bottom of a lake. Like if you agree!

Engineers of T-34 testing possible engine variants Soviet union - Autumn 1934 - Colorized

First video: "let's hydrolock the engine" inconclusive. Second: "let's dunk the whole fu*king engine"

Not all Russian men are named VLAD - some are named IVAN

The water between the plug´s electrode and the motor casing has a much lower resistance than the spark-plug air-gap. You´d need to isolate the high voltage connection to the sparkplug with epoxy (several millimeters clearance to water and no metal content in the epoxy). I´m pretty sure it would work then.

Hahaha, this has easily gotta be one of my favorite channels on RU-vid. You guys are awesome!

It is worth doing a test with a diesel engine, there is no problem with the ignition.

daddy why cant we get a pool for our house like that garage 54: this is for scientific research not for fun

A million Aussies just sighed, shrugged and laughed.

The takeaway I get from this channel is that Lada makes the best, most indestructible cars in the world.

Wow, this is really interesting! As long as you've sealed everything up and have got the snorkel attached, the engine should be perfect happy running fully submerged. What's intriguing here is the situation where the engine stalls when submerged, but then repeatedly starts up again when hoisted out of the water. This indicate there's absolutely no water ingress anywhere. If there was water leaking in, you wouldn't be able to restart the engine after the first dipping. There's only one thing I can think of being the culprit here. Arcing in the HT cables when the engine is submerged. Mind you, as the engine fire up happily once out of the water, there's nothing wrong with the actual cables, they are fine. What we are looking at is a bad ground connection somewhere between the ignition coil and the spark plugs. Up in the atmospheric air, the resistance added to the HT circuit by the bad connection does not affect the running of the engine. However, this changes as soon as the ignition system is in the water. Suddenly, when submerged in a liquid with a higher electrical conductivity than air, the resistance in that bad ground connection makes a difference. The HT current will always travel the route offering the least resistance. Usually this is through the spark plugs. But in water, with the added resistance, that is no longer the case. The current will instead form an arc, and jump straight to the engine block. Basically, the ignition coil is shorting out. Then, as soon as the engine is back upon the air, the best route for the HT current is again through the spark plugs, and everything works fine. Please, clean and repair the ground connection at the ignition coil, and repeat the experiment. I am willing to bet it then works fine!

The indestructible Lada engine, oh I love Lada’s!!!.

Love this channel! Basically new video every 3 days

Another most educational video. Thanx for sharing garage 54. Looking forward to the next video

Years ago we took an old Jeep Gladiator, stripped off the body, and added some 33 inch tires. We drove it into a river to see how long it would run. No waterproofing was done to the engine. The plugs and distributor were submerged and it ran perfectly. Even the alternator worked under water. We stopped when the carb was submerged, with only the air cleaner above water. It never missed a beat. Those old distributors were notorious for missing when they got wet.

Thanks! These videos always make me laugh even in stressful times. 👍

So long as it gets air and is sealed its no problem...Many military engines can run completely submerged

I've never seen anywhere on RU-vid a NOS applied to a diesel motor. Maybe you should consider this idea, and probably be the first to try it? :D

I love garage 54 videos. One day when I have the money I'm gonna come visit you guys just because you do so much awesome stuff! Love you guys

Do the independent brakes - 4 master cylinders connected to a joystick in an X layout and the master cylinders separately connected each to a respective wheel. Drive, and use the joystick to activate each brake independently (or semi-independently, I dunno, get creative)

America loves this channel!

These guys would fit right in with the people of the southern USA.

Hello from America love the channel !!!

Now try this with a diesel engine, it will keep running for the next century.

Great video guys, thanks for sharing.

Hi Garage 54.....Always enjoy your videos

I love these guys they do the most fantastic experiments with cars. Greetings from the United States

I bought myself a NIVA, just because of Vlad !

Next Video: What happens if you fill your oil pan with maple syrup

It must be really fun working at Garage54

I was waiting for this video

Mechanics Hot Tub. Thanks for sharing.

There has got to be a Nobel prize in the works for these guys

Soon as water gets into the distributor it will shut down. They should have done this with a VW diesel. Once started, diesels need no electricity, so as long as it gets air, it will run just fine under water. Great video!

HOLYYYY FFFFFFUUU, my dopamine levels are TOOO high watching these videos!

most underrated channel on youtube

You guys crack me up with your shinanigans

i think you should see if you can make a car hop wheelies with a stock motor. love the videos keep it up:)

Next idea. Car with airplane engine with wings on the doors.

You guys are the best

It's super awesome man! Hope you guys can make it to waterproof car engine it's really great! 🤣👍👍👍

This is a perfect pool heater! :)

Water pump if would speak* Infinite resources!!!🤣

one of the best experiment... and i learned something from this 😁😁

The game looks so cool, I just gonna play with it instead of studying and feel like life's good

You guys do everything no one else can 😂

Presented in the typical slav uniform. Sweatpants. Great video series btw. i like it very much!

i wont accept this result ,you clearly used a motor from a washing machine !!!

Do it with an engine without bellypan and oil, see if the water lubricates the engine while dumped under water

my grandfather was involved in a project to run Chevrolet " Blitz" truck underwater from landing barges to beaches in ww2. He said they would run 10 minutes underwater in salt water. That's with standing on the steering wheel and making the throttle hold as they moved up the beach

Get in there with it!

I love these guys🤣👊👍

I wanna go for your Garage and see you but when i check where you are i think is to long way. Im from Poland near the Warsaw this is 4700 km from you :)) But you make a goog job friends 👍

01:28 - that silver Lada in the back ground to the left of screen.... With that grill, it looks like a Lada version of an 80's Rolls Royce or Bentley hahaha 🤣🤣

Nice work

nice video,very interesting that the engine keeps working almost submerged. For suggestion , how about transform 2 or 3 lada breaks or 4x4 and transform to 1 articulate or double articulate bus? maybe the 4x4 haves more torque to move a so long vehicle

Just casually binging the channel and a new episode comes up in my feed, bet

It would really help if it was running on all 4 cylinders. I can tell you, right away, that carburator is NOT sealed....like at the venturi shafts, for instance. An engine can take a bit of water in the intake( they actually make water injection systems), but too much is getting in that carb. Btw, keep the RPM's above 2000rpm, and the entire exaust CAN BE SUBMERGED. it'll get quiet as hell, and blow lotsa stinky, smoky bubbles, and still run! 🤪👍💯

You guy are the best lol 😆😂

👍👍👍👍👍👍 110% awesome videos .

I, really love Russian Lada’s they are just so beautiful I love the Russian design and size.

Make a Kursk out of a Lada engine.

Calling the distributor the "dizzy", methinks a certain translator has been watching old Wheeler Dealers episodes with Edd China.

We do this all the time with woods trucks. You can look up Jeeps that race underwater. You're just not sealing up the ignition system well enough. Or you're sucking in water through an exposed vacuum leak. It should run all day down there and never stop

Spray the distributor and wires with flex seal haha

How do you kill a Lada? Garage 54: You cant

Wow the game looks unexpectedly good

I know exactly how long a 350sbc will last under the water when you jump it into a lake. This was a rough weekend and there was no recording because we were focused on getting the truck out, unlocking it(hydrolocked after 15 minutes or so, maybe longer), and staying warm in 20-30° weather after getting soaked. Needless to say, we pulled the truck out of the water, pulled the plugs, drained the motor, and we refreshed it on land. We fired it right back up and drove it home. I have pictures of that weekend and highly recommend having a charged phone before you go mudding one weekend without letting anyone know. Lesson learned and a lot of fun. Just very cold.

Old diesel doesn't even need electricals to run. Try this experiment with such.

Conclusion at the end, engine is a witch.

Topla car battery gotta love it!

I’m definitely downloading that game

I would like to see you try an old mechanical diesel. Only ''electricals'' it needs is for the starter. lol

The bubbles coming from the engine in the underwater cam shots show where the water is getting in- looks like there's a leak on the crank case and in the exhaust system. Id be interested to see the engine taken apart to see if the there's water in the oil.

Curious. I recon it must be pulling water either through the Vacuum Advance on the distributor, or the PCB Valve. I’d like to see if that’s the case, as you mentioned that’s when it started dying was about the Distributor and/or Valve Cover. Perhaps greasing or otherwise sealing all the vacuum lines would solve the issue?

How about using a cvt trans/engine to run a chainsaw?

Now this is called water colling 😁

I always laugh when I watch these guys and hear "carburetor", "distributor" and "choke" like it's 1988 in the west lol

@garage54 Stroke of genius! Do a car upside down as a giant combo, Grinder, Sander, Cutter, Wirebrush in place of tyres!!!

Torque converter is having trouble spinning in the water, for example when you try and move your arm fast underwater you can feel a strong resistance or if you try and run underwater, you can see soon as the torque converter or either the clutch depending on if it’s a manual or auto, if the transmission was removed if I’m not mistaken the motor should run fine. I may be wrong but that’s just my observation

The disty has a vent hole in the bottom to allow it to breathe. you have to vent it to same as air intake to keep from flooding the inside of the cap. Some caps themselves have the vent hole.

Ich denke nicht der Verteiler ist das Problem,sondern die Zündkabel.Bei älteren,porösen Kabeln reicht schon hohe Luftfeuchtigkeit ,daß der Motor nicht startet oder ausgeht.Die Zündspannung kommt nicht mehr ausreichend an der Zündkerze an und der Motor geht aus.Man müßte die Kabel erneuern, besser isolieren und es nochmal probieren. Euer Kanal ist genial.Ihr habt absolut abgefahrene Ideen!

I wonder if you pressurized the distributor with a small amount of the exhaust. Maybe fed via a fuel filter to get rid of some of the particulates?

Thank you guys!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Garage54 rules!!!!!!!

Are we gonna ignore that 4 door skiyline r32 at 00:54?

next time diesel engine

Nice 👍. Mike Espo .

Once had a power barrow ie a wheelbarrow with a small petrol engine attached. That went into the canal and sank we dragged it out thinking it would be shot . But just like here it started first time no problems and continued to work too .

Guys never fail to get a laugh. 😁👍