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Old 07-25-2008, 11:52 PM   #65
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Originally Posted by [ion] C2 View Post
If you suck up enough water so that the air can't be compressed much or there is no air in the cylinder at all, it will hydrolock; the piston can't compress the water so that force exerts back on the hardware and there goes your pistons/rods/stuff..

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