Something just like this happened to me on a recent trip in a 2WD Westy. I hit an incredible thunderstorm cell in central Oklahoma. I can only compare it to driving under a waterfall. Visibility instantly dropped to zero, and I pulled off the road more by feel than by sight. It lasted 15 or 20 minutes, then passed. The van started right up, ran perfectly for about a minute, then began to lose power and died, thick smoke suggesting too rich. This repeated several times- each time I shut off the engine, it would instantly restart and run perfectly for a minute, then cough and die again. After several repetitions (maybe 15-20 min.) it finally ran OK and ran perfectly for the rest of the trip, which included quite a bit more rain. Some water must have gotten somewhere it's not supposed to during the deluge, then eventually cleared.
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