V8 deep water help?

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Spyderman said:
Is that Redbourn Ford?
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Yes it is.

A few years back now, but me and buddy went to loads of the Fords from here over towards Standon (your pic below). Think we did 7 or 8 of them. Have to admit I chickened out of Standon, it had been really wet and thw water was high, over the bonnet and that was without driving all the way in. Had we not been a lone vehicle I'd have gone through, but common sense won. :D

If you're only in Luton, maybe we should meet up sometime, I'm only down the road in Leighton Buzzard.
 
dip your crank pulley in and the belts will run water up and drop it near your Dizzy.. P.s its not the water itself that stops you normally unless you go really deep its the condensation formed inside the Dizzy when you enter a hot engine into cold water.
 
i find with mine thats its perfectly happy in all kinds of deep fresh water. did corwen car wash twice when it was deeper than a few regulars had ever seen (it was early this year when the freeze was thawing, we had to dodge massive sheets of ice flowing down the river) and it was happy with it. put it into a bit of dirty water at a pay n play and it doesnt like it, it will miss on a few cylinders for 30 seconds or so. i dont think its condensation cos the dizzy has a free air breather, and an air feed from the compressed air system which feeds it with compressed air (you guessed it) when necessary, via a valve i have located next to the gearstick.

having said that there arent many other places i would expect it to arc, but in my experience once a dizzy says no the only way is to open it and dry it...

cheers
 
has any body got any how tos on putting breather on the dizzy? also iv had an idea to keep the coil dry but need to know if it needs to breath or if it gets warm, anybody any ideas on that?

What HT leads do people reccomend? links appreciated.

Cheers
 
I've got sentech leads off eBay, from Poland, have been superb - far less problems than when I had whatever tosh I had on beforehand. Sentech boots are superb too, real snug fit. Cable tie them on aswell though.

Coil, for me it is not especially waterproofed. Cable tied king lead packed with grease first, White lithium spray grease all over the LT terminals (not that it would matter cps 12v doesn't arc)

Dizzy cap, get two 1/4bsp 6mm nylon pushfit male threaded fittings, drill 13mm holes in between towers for cylinders 4 and 3, and 3 and 6 - low enough to clear the rotor arm but high enough not to foul the spark cover inside. Seal them in with ptfe or loctite and your done. Pushfit connectors make it easy to remove your nylon tube when necessary, but seeing as you seal the dizzy cap on with RTV sealant it's nit so easy to remove the cap again :D

I would link you up but I'm on my phone and that is just a PITA esp. when i CBA...
 
V8jon said:
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sorry to high-jack,
have you got a snorkel for each bank?
do you use a filter on them?



I found just putting an old pillow case over the front grill and then shut the bonnet works fine for warming her up quicker in the snow and also light wading until i sort out an electric fan.

I took the coil popped it into a thick plastic bag - almost like an old sand/stone bag you get from TP or whickes. made it fit in nicely by folding it back on itself to get 2 layers of plastic over leaving about 5-7 inches on bag flapping around at the bottom there fitted to the wing, i left the bottom open so anything can run out and nothing should be able to get up there unless the water is upto the wings.

The coil does get too hot to touch after a hot day of full on offroading. Worried about this one abit but hay, its still working and coils are cheap, better then sittin in the middle of a ford.

I have seen threads on tapping the dizzy into the outlet manifold ( i think) and up to the snorkel , i think, to give a flow of air being sucked through the dizzy.


I would really like to move it into the cab but no one can say if a more powerful one is needed and i don't know where to get the extended cables from, i can make the 2 that go on the top just need the big one that goes to the dizzy.

I try and stay away from anything over wheel hight, a couple of times i gone a little higher, just remember get a fixed ref point, i.e. a tree and don't let of the throttle unless you are 100% sure your not moving any further forward.


Dont forget your drain plug!
 
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I tried connecting the dizzy to the inlet manifold but it played havoc with the idle (obviously because there was an air flow source)

In my experience the coil is not an issue, grease her up and she's good to go. Its the dizzy that takes some sorting. Cable tie the spark plug boots on aswell. Fiddly but worth it.

Cheers.

P.s. The secret to a good v8 wader is quality leads, cap and rotor. Buy genuine and then do the mods, otherwise you're ****ing into the wind!
 
adies_v8 said:
sorry to high-jack,
have you got a snorkel for each bank?
do you use a filter on them?



I found just putting an old pillow case over the front grill and then shut the bonnet works fine for warming her up quicker in the snow and also light wading until i sort out an electric fan.

I took the coil popped it into a thick plastic bag - almost like an old sand/stone bag you get from TP or whickes. made it fit in nicely by folding it back on itself to get 2 layers of plastic over leaving about 5-7 inches on bag flapping around at the bottom there fitted to the wing, i left the bottom open so anything can run out and nothing should be able to get up there unless the water is upto the wings.

The coil does get too hot to touch after a hot day of full on offroading. Worried about this one abit but hay, its still working and coils are cheap, better then sittin in the middle of a ford.

I have seen threads on tapping the dizzy into the outlet manifold ( i think) and up to the snorkel , i think, to give a flow of air being sucked through the dizzy.


I would really like to move it into the cab but no one can say if a more powerful one is needed and i don't know where to get the extended cables from, i can make the 2 that go on the top just need the big one that goes to the dizzy.

I try and stay away from anything over wheel hight, a couple of times i gone a little higher, just remember get a fixed ref point, i.e. a tree and don't let of the throttle unless you are 100% sure your not moving any further forward.


Dont forget your drain plug!
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Thanks alot lads I've got an idea wot needs doing now.
 
best way to take a v8 through water , in a boat . don't do it water gets into all the places you sealed and now can't get out , then life goes down hill .
remember a washing up glove over the dizzy cable tied on with leads coming out of the fingers only helps for a short time
 
so we are all posting pics then?

Mine in standon
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Wangie 46 in good eater
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mine going into violets lane(i got to the end and turned back without any major issues)
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wangie again at bures
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some numpty at bures
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I got really stuck at holymoor side with water ****ing in the doors. The injun cut out in that water but a little bit of wd on the inside of the dizzy sorted that. Do nt think theres any pics of that. And whilst were doing pics l;ets have a vid curtersy of stuart sharpe

I recomend spraying regularly with dampstart and go slow through ALL puddles, even the 2" deep ones.Dramatic tv styley spray = missing injun.
 
mine....totally ignoring the bow wave technique and just flooring it...so the dizzy got it and the thing stalled!

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good fun tho...as long as ya don't mind replacing engines!:eek:

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