Sorry to hear that Colin, 'course no intercooler to catch a lot of the water and straight in. Don't abandon hope just yet, have the injectors out and get the water out and you just may be surprised; you may just be hydrolocked. In fact you could get all the water out through the glowplug holes. Take 'em out and spin it over and see what happens...admiral51 wrote:result is one engine siezed front and back footwells just that wells and electrics doing all sorts of funny things first time in 3 months alarm worked....and last
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Many years ago as a youth I had a Ford Cortina, as you do, an old MK2 GT. It was a bit rusty and I did not realise how bad the front wheelarches were until I hit floods at quite a fair lick. The front footwells were deluged and ended up a good three inches deep in water. Worst thing, I had a new girlfriend in the passenger seat and she was not impressed and getting soaked. For some reason that relationship never blossomed
I had to wade through deep water this morning to get to work. Suspension up on high and through I went. Whilst waiting for the suspension to rise, a Luton Repmobile went shooting past me at a silly speed and ploughed through making the most incredible bow-wave I've ever seen The driver was a muppet of the highest order to plough into the water at quite a speed and perhaps more by luck than judgement, the car kept going...