Me and some friends decided to do a little mudding out in the woods after a few days of rain. I completely forgot about my recent addition of a 14x3 air cleaner. I started hitting the puddles a little too hard and it finally caught up to me. I made it through a pretty deep one at 20mph and the truck started to bog down, I pumped the gas but it didn't matter, the truck stalled out.
After cussing a blue streak I finally worked up the guts to look under the hood. Pulled the hood up and saw that the heat liner or whatever that thing is had gotten soaked and fallen on the down on the engine. Once piece was laying on the exhaust manifold and was smoking, another piece got caught in the serpentine belt which caused the belt to pop off. and the main chunk of it was laying over the air cleaner suffocating the engine.
I pulled the filter off and looked into the intake and there was some water in there, but not too bad. I then tried starting the engine and after about 20 seconds of cranking it fired right up. It ran great too! I drove the rest of the trail VERY slowly since the throttle body had nothing covering it.
The moral of this story is...........either buy one of those filter bras or keep the stock intake on your truck when you go mudding. This could have ended a lot worse.

 

Yeah, for sure. Although gettting some water in the intake is a nice way to clean out your combustion chamber =)

Sounds like most of your problems were caused by the serpentine belt coming off. Glad it was nothing serious. Hydrolock is a mother ****er...

 

As someone who hits every mud hole he can find is there any way to prevent Hydrolock?

 

Yeah, get a snorkel intake.

 

yea there is ................DONT SUCK IN WATER haha

 

Thats to hard. My K&N is pretty hell shielded but I still don't know how much water might be going in. It does fell like the motor bogs when I'm in the hole.

 

Get a fliter wrap.

Or you could always throw the stock box on when you're goin muddin.

 

Do bad I dont have the stock box. Ill get a filter wrap to try to help out.

 

or just don't be a dumbass redneck and drive AROUND the mud bog instead of through it.

Dirka dir.

I had a little bit of water splash up onto my 14x3 when I was running it. Damn near hydro locked the motor.

14x3 FTL.

 

There deep I follow the lifted guy around. I'm not a dumb redneck. Al least I'm not trying to make my truck look like its a 4x4.