Puddle Fording
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Puddle Fording
Earlier this evening i saw a huge puddle/lake in a parking lot and decided i needed to drive through it. It ended up being very deep to the point where im going to need to change the gear oil in my axels. The truck made it through fine several times but then started sputtering and having very rough acceleration. I thought some water may have gotten into my intake system but when i checked there was no trace of moisture of any kind in the airbox. I dont think the water was deep enough for anything to have gone into the exhaust. I just need to know if I should just see what happens after it dries out, or if it has something else wrong with it.
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My sputtering was always caused by water in the intake . . . as long as I'd keep goosing the throttle it wouldn't die. If you plan to play in the water more in the future spray the inside of your distributor cap with WD-40 to be on the safe side. I've switched to an electric fan which I can shut off so that I don't spray more water into my engine compartment than necessary but it always helps if you go SLOW through the deep stuff. I get stupid from time to time and hit things with my foot to the floor. Sometimes I'm okay and sometimes it costs me $200 for a new ignition module. 
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What fan do you run? Mine overheats as soon as I get off the road, so I know I need to upgrade. It used to overheat in traffic too, but there is no traffic here so that's no longer an issue.
Did you install it in front of or behind the radiator? I've heard that pushing (front of radiator) works better.
Chad
Did you install it in front of or behind the radiator? I've heard that pushing (front of radiator) works better.
Chad
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I like my electric fan
because I can go "fording" without risking pulling the fan into the radiator when it hits the water. Besides, I have to have someway to haul away all the trash I accumulate around here - where does it all come from??????
Proeliator - are there pics of your truck in the gallery? I tried to look but don't really want to search through 14 billion photographs. (nevermind this part - as usual the answers are here somewhere if you look hard enough
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Chad
Proeliator - are there pics of your truck in the gallery? I tried to look but don't really want to search through 14 billion photographs. (nevermind this part - as usual the answers are here somewhere if you look hard enough
)Chad
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To view a user's gallery just click on their user name here where they post and then click "gallery". It'll save you having to sift through thousands of them.
I have a puller and a pusher. Do not be fooled into thinking that a push fan can keep up with a puller. They're nowhere close. Somebody on here tried to tell me that but I wouldn't listen . . . don't remember who that was.
I have both a puller and a pusher and can barely keep my truck cool because I don't have a shroud on it at the moment. I have a new pull fan with a shroud which I'll install when I tear my truck apart. It came from a Volvo, don't remember the model or the year though. In any event it's almost a perfect fit for the 19x26" radiator. Anyhoo if you don't use a shroud you're only pulling through a very small portion of your radiator. You need to draw heat off the whole thing to run cool. If I wasn't doing stupid stuff in deep water I'd have kept my mechanical unit as they seem to cool a bit better. One plus though with the electric is I have more power.
I have a puller and a pusher. Do not be fooled into thinking that a push fan can keep up with a puller. They're nowhere close. Somebody on here tried to tell me that but I wouldn't listen . . . don't remember who that was.
I have both a puller and a pusher and can barely keep my truck cool because I don't have a shroud on it at the moment. I have a new pull fan with a shroud which I'll install when I tear my truck apart. It came from a Volvo, don't remember the model or the year though. In any event it's almost a perfect fit for the 19x26" radiator. Anyhoo if you don't use a shroud you're only pulling through a very small portion of your radiator. You need to draw heat off the whole thing to run cool. If I wasn't doing stupid stuff in deep water I'd have kept my mechanical unit as they seem to cool a bit better. One plus though with the electric is I have more power.
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Originally Posted by ivanribic
Somebody on here tried to tell me that but I wouldn't listen . . . don't remember who that was. .
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Yea, de shroud is fix numero uno for overheating woes...
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yup, i remember when i got my truck it had no fan shroud and I had problems all the time with it getting hot really quick......now (after installing one) sometimes (esp in winter) it takes forever for her to warm up and when she does the needle won't go past the "O" in normal. I am talking about a 460BB so i highly recommend it for any and all other motors!
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Originally Posted by proeliator
It was probably some arrogant blow-hard know it all
Yea, de shroud is fix numero uno for overheating woes...
Yea, de shroud is fix numero uno for overheating woes...
Well, I guess if I washed all the sludge out of the inside of the radiator, it would probably cool a _little_ better. Considered the petcock was plugged (no ammount of wire poking would make any anti-freeze come out). When I drained the fluid, it looked like something that came from my swamp..
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