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land-def-90:
hi waded through a flood yesterday, turned out to be a lot deeper than i thought , had a lovely bow wave going but it got deeper and deeper till it were over my bonnet, the old girl (200tdi) kept going and pulled us through, but as we got through the engine  slowed down almost till it stopped as if it were a damp petrol engine but then slowly came back to life and is now fine, looked in air filter and found it was damp. wat hapened and will i have damaged my engine?
                                                                                                                                                        thanks Iain

Saffy:
Sounds like some water got soaked into the paper filter and chocked the engine for a period (hence engine nearly stalling) as there will be little airflow. If there are no strange noises, lumpy running, strange vibrations, engine rocking then  sounds like you may be lucky and the paper filter only got a light dunking, which would have misted into the fuel mix with minimal ill effect until the filter could breath again.

Happened to my mate the other day through water splash, stalled the engine totally and the filter was trashed because the puddle was muddy.

Do you have a snorkel fitted? If so then you have a leak! If you do not have a snorkel fitted then you should NOT be wading above the height of the standard bumper!
 

But any large quantity of water entering the engine....ooooo you're risking hydraulic locking the engine and causing MUCH damage. Many engine written off that way with bent conrods and broken cranks and torn out bearings etc.

Range Rover Blues:
Sounds like a lucky escape to me.  Any water that got past the air filter would have evaporated by now, just don't do it again.

extreme90:
lucky lucky person
tip  :lol: diesels and water do not mix   8-[
if you dont have a snorkel fit one
if you do, remove the snorkel top and put you hand over the air intake whilst the engine is running, and find where the air leak is, it'll make a hiss'ing sound
dan

SimonHarwood:

--- Quote from: Traybackdan on January 28, 2008, 18:01:28 ---lucky lucky person
tip  :lol: diesels and water do not mix   8-[

--- End quote ---

As an example: On Saturday I came across someone in a diesel escort (not a 4x4, I know, but the results could easily be similar - but more expensive) in the ford on Watery Gate Lane.
After I towed him out he tried to restart and found that he had broken his block and/or head. The water was only about 16" deep but his air intake was 8"-10" from the ground.
He was waiting for a tow home (his wife was on the way) when I left.

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