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aquaphobic 80 series cruiser

Post by Middo »

hey iv got a query i told my mate i ask the outers oracle about. he has just bought an 80 series cruiser wagon. it passed its roadworthy no worries. everytime he drives it into water be it bonnet level or just enough to splash the car a little it starts to spludder and cough and sometimes it evens stops on him and wont start for a bit. we cant figure out wat the problem is cause theres no water in the air filter and we know that water isnt getting into the petrol tank cause weve checked it for holes and the fule pump hole is sealed realy well.
any ideas?



cheers. tim
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Post by mike_nofx »

Dizzy cap and or leads getting wet?
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Post by Middo »

yeh considered this but as i said it even does it in water that bairly splashes the car
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Post by ditchwitch »

that's really all it can betest with a hose and motor running
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Post by mhgill »

i've got a mate with an 80 series gxl 4.5 on LPG his car does the same, if you get water anywhere near the front of it stops dead.... :?:
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Post by MrGrim »

could i make a simple sudjestion ive used to find a short i had ...



with the car running in the driveway bonnet up go around the front slowly with a squirty bottle set on stream not spray and slowly work around it until you find the area that causes it to stop or play up ...

i did this after months of problems with an ingition short endedd up being a bare wire in the loom that just happened to be the coil tacho wire when shorted it killed the engine

using a hose is to random with the squrty bottle at least it a small area at a time
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Post by Middo »

yeh cheers mr grim. will try this out next time i c him
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Post by Middo »

problem solved. mate took his car to a family friend who is a mechanic and it had the wrong size leads on it so water was gettin in real easy.
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Post by crankycruiser »

at the rear of the dizzy there is a hole... the water runs down the back of the dizzy and straight into the hole and then into the dizzy.... they dont like it.. also there is a hole at the bottom that needs sealing up...

I put a breather on mine and it made it shitloads better... and the beauty of it is, if it does get water in its giny, then u can spray CRC down the breather and it clears up straight away.

this is the breather hose i put in mine.. bit hard to see but u get the idea
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Post by Middo »

cheers for goin to the trouble of taking a picture and everything mate. ill have a look at my mates cruiser wen he gets back from the mines on the weekend. cheers
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