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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Exactly, water does not get into the engine except as water vapor from the combustion. You seem to think we disagree on this point. I am not the dumbass PP who claimed there is water in the engine. My point is there would not be any water in the engine.

Also, you are wrong that there would be a quart of water left in the muffler. All mufflers have a weep hole. Maybe the ones you worked on was clogged but it's there.

I have been working on cars for much longer than 26 years and have band built engines.[/quote]

I rebuild several engines a month. I probably do about two dozen a year. I've been an ASE Master since 1997. And if you've ever pulled the mufflers out of short-trip  Subaru Outback or Forrester (notoriously) in the winter, you'd know to have a large catch basin ready when you separate the pipe. [/quote]

I don't know why the two of us are arguing about this, we are in agreement that 1) water vapor comes from combustion, and that 2) it condenses as it passes through a cold exhaust system that has not warmed up yet, and 3) it eventually cooks off once the exhaust system heats up.

My disagreement is with one of the previous PPs who claimed that cars needed to be driven for 30 minutes every week to get rid of moisture/water in the engine and exhaust. This is simply not true.

Maybe Subaru doesn't see fit to have weep holes in their exhaust, I've never owned one and never felt the desire for one. But it is a well known fact that mufflers typically have weep holes. You should know this as a tech. [/quote]

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