As a lot of you may now, all of California is underwater right now for the most part. Well last night after the 4th or 5th day of non-stop rain, the major street flooding began. My friend and I were coming back from my other friend's house at about 2 am from playing poker...there was standing water everywhere in places where there should be. Well I get back to his house, and then head home in my own car...unfortunately, part of the road that I have to drive on is a well-known flood plain. To make a long story short, I nearly drowned my car....I had to drive through about 1/2 a mile of standing water with water splashing up over my car onto the windsheild in such large quantities that my windshield wipers couldn't handle the amount of water coming in, and I couldn't see jack shit for about 45 seconds...lucky it was 2 am, the road isn't very busy anyway...it was definitely scary, I wouldn't know what I would have done if I had gotten stuck in that lake in the middle of the road. To make things worse, I went and checked the engine bay of my car this morning, and there is mud and water EVERYWHERE...fuckers at the tire shop ripped off my splashguard while they were replacing my CV halfshaft...so now I fear that water got sucked into the intake manifold, which would mean instant death for my engine...I guess only time will tell.

after-post editing: As a lot of you may KNOW; where there SHOULDN'T be.

no you shouldn't have to worry about it that, only worry about your engine getting hydro locked when your actually under water. if your car didn't stall out when you were submerged. it will not stall out from water when its out of the water.

what i would worry about is water getting into your electrical harness. just keep the car running for a good long time and let the heat dry up all the water in the engine bay.

Should I worry about the mud and dirt and crap in there? I was thinking about taking a garden hose to the radiator today...

no don't flush the mud with water. don't ever spray an engine bay with water on purpose, you'll do more harm then good. just take a brush and brush off hte mud, and wipe them off clean with a towel or something.

After cooling down of course.
After that you should be fine..

what the hell is goin on..first a tidel wave wipes out all these people in asia now massive floodin in cali..not to mention we had 3 hurricanes come my way a few months ago..seems like that movie,"Day After Tomorrow".. weird

Should I worry about the mud and dirt and crap in there? I was thinking about taking a garden hose to the radiator today...
just pressure wash under the hood to get rid of the mud, it will be fine, just make sure to cover your alternator and intake with a plastic bag

just pressure wash under the hood to get rid of the mud, it will be fine, just make sure to cover your alternator and intake with a plastic bag

Followed by:

don't ever spray an engine bay with water on purpose, you'll do more harm then good. just take a brush and brush off hte mud, and wipe them off clean with a towel or something.

Although covering the alt and intake, I would still recomend not washing underneath...If anything just rag clean it.

what the hell is goin on..first a tidel wave wipes out all these people in asia now massive floodin in cali..not to mention we had 3 hurricanes come my way a few months ago..seems like that movie,"Day After Tomorrow".. weird
haha funny you say that, when my buddy and I were driving through all the standing water and streams flowing across the road he was all "dude, it's just like the day after tomorrow!"....weird.

you think you are bad off...
oh, look, i never knew out travel trailer could be a boat either....


http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v201/CBFryman/98d2250f.jpg

or my dads shop

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v201/CBFryman/Picture145.jpg


Or my moms 1st nissan Frontier we didnt get a picture of it in the water but the ECU was completely submerged....


http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v201/CBFryman/Picture010.jpg


Hurricanes Suck.... :mad:

Florida, I presume?

you geussed it. I used to love water. now i hate it wil a passion. we got a heavy rain recently and it filled the back yard back up to a good half shin deep.

Oh and if your engine continued to run after you got out of water you should be fine. if you are worried jsut prop the hood open and let all the mud cake. take your airfilter out and see if it is wet and then brush all of the dirt out.

cbfryman.. where in florida do u live?

Man am I glad I live in UTAH. Beautiful mountains, hardly any snow, or rain for that matter. Guess what, no hurricanes, tidal waves, or earthquakes. This pleases me. Late...

North. about 30min outside of Gainsville.

what the hell is goin on..first a tidel wave wipes out all these people in asia now massive floodin in cali..not to mention we had 3 hurricanes come my way a few months ago..seems like that movie,"Day After Tomorrow".. weird
let me guess, you live in Florida too.

...But cold as a mofugga. :D

i live all the way south of u..and i mean all the way lol... but yea
i bet it is nice in utah but u cant beat this right now... current temp. in
key west is 72 degrees. :)

one ball hung low.. i dont kno if its my computer but ur sig isnt goin all the way, it looks like hes doin him a favor..btw which wrestler is that?

yea, i dunno if anyone heard about it, but Shokoe Bottom (In Richmond) was completly washed out. Most of the buildings from the 1800's are destroyed, and cars were literaly floating down the road. Funny thing is I was just down their the week before to go to the farmers market. (One of the video clips the news showed was a car floating THROUGH the market.)

haha funny you say that, when my buddy and I were driving through all the standing water and streams flowing across the road he was all "dude, it's just like the day after tomorrow!"....weird.

Forget the day after tomorrow, things are looking apocalyptic. Once the zombies pop out we'll know for sure. But i mean, if I had to die, i'd want to die in the apocalypse. You know you're not missin out on any earthlife, and that means there's a heaven and more importantly, while there, you have the best bragging rights...

"Hey howd you die?"

"Car accident, you?"

"I died in the ****ing apocalypse, it was AWESOME! There were these four horsemen and they brought all this crazy sh**, I lasted like 3 hours of it, most people only made it 1."

By the way, im still wasted from new years, so I apologise for crazy this post may be. It took forever to make sure I had no typos and hopefully ill find it tomorrow, considering that i may not remember posting it...

happy new years everyone, im very thankful that i dont have a hangover.i cant believe its 2005 already..

anyways, yea wtf is goin on in the world i heard a few tornados touched down somewhere in middle florida or something.. i dunno i was drunk when i heard it, but i didnt think tornados would really happen this time of the year.

:screwy: When your young you dont get a hang over :evillol: :smokin:

lol well i do...

Fuck that, I'm 20 and I get the knarliest hangovers...even if I'm not sick the night of.

Well i plan on quitting drinking when i turn 21... :evillol:

Well i plan on quitting drinking when i turn 21...
Im pretty sure you would be in college then...and who goes through a week of college without drinks...

well it will be my senior year. then i have to get a job and be responsible. so may once i turn 22. My soccer coach stoped drinking when he was 21...lo. its why he doesnt chew us out if on of us gets caught drinking. just runs the untill we puke like we where drunk. well the head (varsity) coach chews us out. but he also drinks. what a hypocrit or how ever you spell it.

if u go to bed and close ur eyes and u feel like ur spinnin, thats when u kno ur gonna have that nasty feelin in ur head and nausea the next mornin..i had one so bad i didnt wanna get out of bed til like 5 pm.

i cant see how anyone can get hooked to it.

You aren't drunk until you have to hang onto the floor to keep from sliding off the face of the earth.

Or you post a thread on how you got drunk here in the racing section...

http://www.automotiveforums.com/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=302545

and for the finishing touches

http://store.yahoo.com/autopia/inf-engine.html

u tell the cop that when he pulls u over lol.. im not drunk!!!! i havent fell off the earth yet!!

Man am I glad I live in UTAH. Beautiful mountains, hardly any snow, or rain for that matter. Guess what, no hurricanes, tidal waves, or earthquakes. This pleases me. Late...

Yeah, but you live in Utah. Thats shitty enough! :iceslolan



j/k - Utah does kinda suck though, unless you're skiing.

...or you're mormon...then you can get all the poon you want.