flooded engine cylinders

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Originally Posted by upallnight

Only a few cylinders will have a valve open, so essentially, the other cylinders will be closed tight so the gasoline will have nowhere to evaporate. That's is why the gasoline in your tank don't evaporate overnight.

If an engine was like a gas tank there would still be compression in those cylinders with closed valves the next day. Also, it doesn't take much of a flooded condition to wash the oil film off the cylinder walls to the point they don't seal. Cylinders are not airtight.