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Flooding water - how deep?
Posted by MS (more from MS) on Sat, 4 Sep 2004 12:05:13
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Here's the situation. You live in FL, a drenching hurricane is wolloping you, the low laying area you live in is beginning to flood. If you leave now you have a short distance to travel through flooded streets to make it to higher ground. Question: how deep is too deep as far as your 900 is concerned? With the starter up above the engine on later models, plus the air inlet around 2 feet on both CIS and AMM versions, if you absolutely MUST drive to save your life, I think 18 inches would be maximum. Not rushing water mind you, just high water. And driving slowly. Sure, water would be seeping in through the floor and door seams, but as long as the spark plug wires, distributor, alternator and air intake stay above the water limit, the engine should continue to run. I'm also thinking the air filter box could even have water up halfway, just so long as air can continue to flow through the intake piping. Can't have the engine reving too high or that would risk sucking water up into the throttle body. ECU at floor level on earlier models might be a problem as far as shorting out goes.
So how deep? Has anyone ever successfully driven through flooded streets?
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