Help! In deep water today Land Rover Dead

reg aldershot · Nov 17, 2009

sorry to hear

Even though water is fun water dont like engines. unlike fuel water does not compress so as soon as you have sucked up a small bit of water into the cylander the piston cant compress the water so usually the first thing to go is the conrod. but more water can lead to nasty broken pistons sticking out your block hopefully only a tiny bit of water got in just enuff to stop ignition

Heavy Breather · Nov 17, 2009

wiltshire landyman said:
my first go at doin a video on a forum so hope it works,

were in the 2nd disco

Yup that worked, thats some serious deep water, looked quite dry with the doors open..........

ratty · Nov 18, 2009

wiltshire landyman said:
my first go at doin a video on a forum so hope it works,

were in the 2nd disco

It might look good for the camera driving into the water flat out, but It's a shame they weren't driven properly.

Have you got any vids of someone driving through it properly? Just wondering how deep it would look like with a bow wave.

wiltshire landyman · Nov 18, 2009

ratty said:
It might look good for the camera driving into the water flat out, but It's a shame they weren't driven properly.

Have you got any vids of someone driving through it properly? Just wondering how deep it would look like with a bow wave.

u cant drive into it slow weve tried!!

u just sink in the silty sandy bottom and loose all traction,you have to rely on as much momentum as possible on entry or your fooked

if you wanna come down we would be more than happy to watch you drive into it "properly" how long would you like us to leave you there b4 we recover ya

also check out pic on page 1 you can see how deep it is

wiltshire landyman · Nov 18, 2009

wiltshire landyman said:
with your snorkel connected properly water aint a problem,we regulary do this bomb hole with varying success and a very wet ass

without the big splash

[JP] · Nov 18, 2009

cool videos!
the discos look brilliant!

was that filmed on the plains? (Salisbury)

ratty · Nov 19, 2009

wiltshire landyman said:
u cant drive into it slow weve tried!!

u just sink in the silty sandy bottom and loose all traction,you have to rely on as much momentum as possible on entry or your fooked

if you wanna come down we would be more than happy to watch you drive into it "properly" how long would you like us to leave you there b4 we recover ya

also check out pic on page 1 you can see how deep it is

Me thinks you are confused.

If thats the case you might aswell just fit floats cos that's all you are doing there. You aint getting traction when yer flat out into the water like that and then spinning yer wheels like fook. You're floating. Traction is made by making your vehicle sink. That means making your vehicle displace more water. i.e. adding some weight.

What I think you're meaning to say is that YOU don't have the weight in yer vehicle to drive it correctly. NOT that it CANNOT be driven correctly.

I wouldn't take my TD5 in there. In fact I wouldn't take anything other than a £50 banger through that.

goonarmy · Nov 19, 2009

ratty said:
I wouldn't take my TD5 in there. In fact I wouldn't take anything other than a £50 banger through that.

Can I suggest a boat when its that deep?

ratty · Nov 19, 2009

goonarmy said:
Can I suggest a boat when its that deep?

I might want a paddle to go with it cos that looked like **** creak.

BOOMER · Nov 19, 2009

wiltshire landyman said:
with your snorkel connected properly water aint a problem,we regulary do this bomb hole with varying success and a very wet ass

I reckon Dorset VogueSE would like it, would you mind sharing where it is pls?

ratty · Nov 19, 2009

BoomerV8 said:
I reckon Dorset VogueSE would like it, would you mind sharing where it is pls?

I thought D71 was the resident U-boat commander?

DV may like it but me thinks his ballast may not share the same view.

wiltshire landyman · Nov 19, 2009

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6kHOsPgOxzc"]YouTube- ASIA ROCSTA 4X4 MUDDY BOTTOM DUCK POND[/ame]

this is what happens when you get it wrong.

wiltshire landyman · Nov 19, 2009

ratty said:
Me thinks you are confused.

If thats the case you might aswell just fit floats cos that's all you are doing there. You aint getting traction when yer flat out into the water like that and then spinning yer wheels like fook. You're floating. Traction is made by making your vehicle sink. That means making your vehicle displace more water. i.e. adding some weight.

What I think you're meaning to say is that YOU don't have the weight in yer vehicle to drive it correctly. NOT that it CANNOT be driven correctly.

I wouldn't take my TD5 in there. In fact I wouldn't take anything other than a £50 banger through that.

a td5 has been thru it and a pajero.

jai_landrover · Nov 19, 2009

I'll give it a go!
But I will float and it looks deep but I think I have been as deep last year.
The disco's look like 2 or 3 inch lift with not huge tyres I'm game! where is it?

jai_landrover · Nov 19, 2009

Asia rockstar Video:

Seems like typical idiots usually found around Pay and play sites with lifting strops attached to the front and rear of their vehicles just out to fook everything up and be twots. Lots of em up Whaddon too usually found replacing diffs/shafts mid morning or on the back of AA trucks claiming they havent been offroading.

iannotts · Nov 19, 2009

jai_landrover said:
Asia rockstar Video:

Seems like typical idiots usually found around Pay and play sites with lifting strops attached to the front and rear of their vehicles just out to fook everything up and be twots. Lots of em up Whaddon too usually found replacing diffs/shafts mid morning or on the back of AA trucks claiming they havent been offroading.

yup and the amount of white smoke that came out the zort said to me that isnt going any quickly for a while

ratty · Nov 19, 2009

wiltshire landyman said:
a td5 has been thru it and a pajero.

I still wouldn't take my TD5 through it. I work enough hours as it is. There's a difference between risking damage for nothing and risking damage for a reason. I carry approx 500ft of strops and cables between my truck and my landy just so I don't have to risk my vehicles when extracting others.

goonarmy · Nov 20, 2009

wiltshire landyman said:
my first go at doin a video on a forum so hope it works,

were in the 2nd disco

Aint the first disco through the marshal?His got portal axles if i remember from LRO or summit

BOOMER · Nov 20, 2009

Great fun as always watching some twot fook it up

Muddy Bottom is not far from me but not a V8 friendly environment

Time to find a V8 doozil lump methinks

Heavy Breather · Nov 20, 2009

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