At 12:14 PM 17/04/98 -0300, you wrote: ... >Derek Drew has driven to top of turn signal depth, on 27/8.5/14 tires, >likely about ~20" depth, I guess same here. I quit when water starts coming >into the foot wells, want to keep the carpets dry. Some day I need a >volunteer to lie in the back with the engine lid off and watch what goes on >in deeper waters. In front engined 4x4 a bit of speed sets up a bow wave >with a hollow behind it where the engine lurks, dunno what a vanagon does, >so I drive very slowly, while the exhaust burbles happily. Like Bjorn said, >steam everywhere. > >bye, Tim > > Make sure that the volunteer has a snorkel. I drove into water at night and the "bow" was temporarily under water up to the lights. In other words I lost sight of everything and sudden darkness befell me (my poetic version). If you keep moving then there seems to be enough of a wave to keep the electrical parts of the engine out of the water for short deep encounters. Stay away from bigger puddles that have names though. :-) Björn Björn Ratjen 1987 Syncro Est Alia (self camperized) 1995 Passat TD (1982 Vanagon Diesel) 1979 VW Bus (self- camperized) |
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