Teddy: The only engines I've ever seen with enough water in them from an overnight rainfall, either had a leaky exhaust system, or some other object like a rain cap, tree or high building deflected water down the stack.
For close to 60 years I've been around tractors, and in a one night rainfall, yes even 9", the only time I ever saw a hydraulic lock up in pistons was my Farmall 300 with exhaust pipe loose in manifold, and that was less than 2" of rain. The operator had put a can on the stack, but didn't bother to tell me pipe was loose. The can was still in place and one cylinder was full. The water ran along the sheet metal and down the pipe. The same tractor with a tight exhaust, along with 560 also tight exhaust, sat in the middle of a 100 acre field in a 9" rainfall in 24 hours, nothing over the stacks. There wasn't enough water in the two of them to fill a thimble.
A tractor with a tight exhaust, uncovered, in an open field, over night, and full of water is something I've yet to see.
I quite heartily agree, if you suspect water, best to just leave the switch off and go for the hand crank. Starter could hit it hard enough to do damage, even without ign. I'd be tempted to remove spark plugs or glow plugs, which ever the case may be, crank the engine, watching which cylinder water came from, put all the plugs back but the one with water and start the engine. That is how I handled my 300 over 40 years ago.
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