Water in engine

Hi all wonder if you can help

Basically I was out greenlaning today and went in so deepish water and managed to suck water through the air intake, I've drained the engine oil and taken the sump cover off to drain it out

What do you think I should do to get it back to life?

You need to be comfortable with taking the engine in bits before you proceed or if not it's a garage job.

Take out all the spark plugs and by hand turn the engine over with a ratchet on the crank bolt. Be extremely gentle as you are trying to feel if anything internal is bent so any solid stops are bad. Once you have turned it over twice on the crank and it is all nice and free to rotate it is time to take the head off and remove the remaining water from the cylinders and visually inspect the bores, head and valves.

You may be lucky and it may be able to be rebuilt or just as possible is a new motor.

Was this in Shadoxhurst on Sunday ?? If so i did say to you don't get stuck. Some of those holes are a lot deeper than you first think. As said plugs out and turn engine by hand.

As above, but a bit more optimistic:

Make sure it goes round with no plugs in, then leave the plugs out and spin it on the starter (I'd disconnect the coils, it will still inject fuel though) to blow any water out that is still in the cylinders and inlet manifold, then put the plugs back in, reconnect the coils and hope it goes. Assuming it does get it thoroughly hot, then not worry about it if it runs ok.

Any number of Terrible Things could have happened (e.g. bent conrod), all need the engine apart to sort out though.

If you don't have a snorkel, presumably you don't have extended breathers either so it would be sensible to drain all the oils (diffs, transfer and gearbox).

To prevent petrol being injected when turning over with plugs out you could pull the main relay near the battery for the fuel.