Dont be stupid.
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Dont be stupid.
Just a little story that proves hoe dumb it can be to take your truck "mudding" (actually "lakeing" lol)
Anyways, My frined with a 100% stock dodge dakota killed the engine the other day.
He went through a fairly big puddle at about 35 mph and im guessing it was getting torwards the top of 1st gear so it was revving right...
Anyways, the engine sucked a bunch of water and locked right away.
I would of been with them, but I had to goto work... later on I ended up getting a call to see if I could come pull him out, they thought it just stoped running becasue the electrical shorted out (which it did, they had to open the door becasue the windows wouldent go down to get out). Anyways I told them that I think they probably got water in the motor and it waterlocked... they dident think so.
They had tryed to pull it out with a expedition, but just as I told them that ford couldent do it. lucky for them there was a dudde with a landrover and a 10,000 lbs winch on the front who just happend to be coming by. They ended up having to use a towstrap, tied the landrover to a tree and used the winch to get him out. then that expedition towed him home.
They kept trying to start it, but the engine would only turn so far then would crash. They took the plugs out then ran the starter and it blew a streem of water out of the back passenger side cylinder... they put the plugs back in, started it... it actually runs but has a nasty rod knock.
Just a story I thought I would share.
That 318 dident really owe him much, it was beat to hell and had a little over 200,000 miles on it.
here is a pic of the truck... It looks really shallow but I think what he did was splashed most of the water out casue it was alot deeper than that the day before.
[IMG]local://upfiles/53628/3A7961666B4B429C8242A2889C94847B.jpg[/IMG]
Anyways, My frined with a 100% stock dodge dakota killed the engine the other day.
He went through a fairly big puddle at about 35 mph and im guessing it was getting torwards the top of 1st gear so it was revving right...
Anyways, the engine sucked a bunch of water and locked right away.
I would of been with them, but I had to goto work... later on I ended up getting a call to see if I could come pull him out, they thought it just stoped running becasue the electrical shorted out (which it did, they had to open the door becasue the windows wouldent go down to get out). Anyways I told them that I think they probably got water in the motor and it waterlocked... they dident think so.
They had tryed to pull it out with a expedition, but just as I told them that ford couldent do it. lucky for them there was a dudde with a landrover and a 10,000 lbs winch on the front who just happend to be coming by. They ended up having to use a towstrap, tied the landrover to a tree and used the winch to get him out. then that expedition towed him home.
They kept trying to start it, but the engine would only turn so far then would crash. They took the plugs out then ran the starter and it blew a streem of water out of the back passenger side cylinder... they put the plugs back in, started it... it actually runs but has a nasty rod knock.
Just a story I thought I would share.
That 318 dident really owe him much, it was beat to hell and had a little over 200,000 miles on it.
here is a pic of the truck... It looks really shallow but I think what he did was splashed most of the water out casue it was alot deeper than that the day before.
[IMG]local://upfiles/53628/3A7961666B4B429C8242A2889C94847B.jpg[/IMG]
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RE: Dont be stupid.
lmao that would be me if my friends didnt talk me outta it. i love to do stupid **** then fix it afterwards. my one buddy kept on me about going mudding with him but my trucks stock so i was kinda hesatant (sp) and i had about 100 guys telling me not to. i stuck with them and my truck still starts n runs 
RE: Dont be stupid.
Yeah, as long as you keep it hammered down. You let off you're done.
Deep water is a good way to screw things up unless you go out of your way to "water proof" your truck. Which isn't a bad idea if you're going to do that all the time. Plus you don't always know what's in that deep water. There could be a big ****ing rock in there for all you know.
Deep water is a good way to screw things up unless you go out of your way to "water proof" your truck. Which isn't a bad idea if you're going to do that all the time. Plus you don't always know what's in that deep water. There could be a big ****ing rock in there for all you know.
