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water puts out the fire

Post by mopar rangie »

after seeing about 6 to 8 comp 4x4s hit water today at the ATECO winch challange and suffer loss of spark,i ask why? these guys spend so much time money and effort on ther rigs but for about 20 bucks the fire will not go out or if it does it will be easyer to start. a can of inox,crc,or wd40 helps lots.seal up the dissy,pull a rubber glove over the dissy.it works lots of speed boat racers do this stuff.its a shame when guys are doing so well only to be stoped by some stray water where it should not be.
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Post by bad_religion_au »

even do all those things it's not a guarentee. only guarentee is diesel :D
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Post by mickyd555 »

bad_religion_au wrote:even do all those things it's not a guarentee. only guarentee is diesel :D
is not..................you could hydraulic it too, so there really is no garuntee :roll:
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Post by Daisy »

anything can be made to be water resistant....

but not waterproof...

two different things :roll:
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Post by bad_religion_au »

mickyd555 wrote:
bad_religion_au wrote:even do all those things it's not a guarentee. only guarentee is diesel :D
is not..................you could hydraulic it too, so there really is no garuntee :roll:
ok, if oyu keep the intake out of the water
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Post by grimbo »

bad_religion_au wrote:
mickyd555 wrote:
bad_religion_au wrote:even do all those things it's not a guarentee. only guarentee is diesel :D
is not..................you could hydraulic it too, so there really is no garuntee :roll:
ok, if oyu keep the intake out of the water
Which is just like keeping thhe water out of the electrics in a petrol.

I used own a couple of minis and in the Britsh builders infinite wisdom they put the dissy behind the grill so in any sort of wet weather it would get wet and stop the car (because it musn't rain in England I'm guessing :D ) So anyway to get around this I built a small splashh gaurd using a plastic juice bottle, plus the rubber glove trick and some marine grease. Worked a treat.

We aldo did this on my old mans Pajero and it nevver had any problems. Alot of times using WD40 and some well placed splash gaurds and some marine grease does the trick
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Post by munga »

same with my clubman gt grimbo, spray-on skin from the chemist, and a 2lt milk jug over it. sweet as.
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