Outer Limits 4x4 Board

Hello everybody,

any Defender Td5 drivers arround?
What have you done to keep your landy running in deep water?
I have fitted a snorkel and sealed the CPU box with sikaflex. The deepest water I have been in was about 60 to 70cm, but who knows what comes next
How important is it to seal the batterie box?

Kind regards from Germany,
Kai

I just thought I'd reply because no one else has..

how deep water are you planning to go through??

one thing that's handy to do is if you have electric thermo fans or something similar, you run a switch to them in the cabin, when you go through deep water, turn your fans off, that way they don't spray your whole engine bay with water and mud and any other shit..

I once found a sizzled up frog on my radiator!

All my stuff is old/low tech and less problems with electrics/computers.

I'm not familiar with the TD5 but you should look for ways to seal any electrical connections to do with sensors for the engine computer and pehaps put the computer unit inside a box that can be sealed for water crossings.

For deep crossings use a radiator blind and snorkel on the exhaust outlet (inlet snorkle for water puddles). Then use enough speed to create a bow wave. Beware of floating, which causes loss of traction and forward momentum. In the photo you can see the remains of the bow wave which broke as the rangie came into the shallows. The Toyota diesel that followed went too slow and floated - it got water in the engine and electrics and was a write off.

Always check the crossing on foot (unless there are crocodiles (northern parts of Australia). If it is too strong to walk easily it is not safe to drive.

Thanks a lot for your replies.
I never had a water passage of more than 70cm, and in Germany it's hard to find anyone who did a really deep wading passage. So I though Aussis might have more experience in stuff like that. ( I worked three month in Cairns and know that you can have heaps of fun down there, been the best time in my life!)

So no Td5 drivers arround?

Cheers,
Kai

maybe try the "lrocv" discussion forum.
search in google for lrocv then click on discussion forum.
lots of these guys have td5's ad ford 1m no probs.
just be patient grasshopper


modman.