i accidently ran into a deep puddle yesterday and my car died out in the middle of the road...i popped the hood and disconnected the aem cai and hella water just flushed out from the tb...i pushed it to the side under a bridge and waited for tow truck for about 30 mins...called them back and they said another hour and a half so i tried starting the car and it actually started up...drove home hella slow and did an oil change and clean the valve cover cause it was hella yellow...poured some injector cleaner and did the seafoam but now my car is running hella lean...anybody know wats wrong? can it be cause of my o2 sensor getting wet? any help would be appreciated. Thanks

 

i hope you pulled the plugs and tried starting the car.. it will get all the water out of the cynlinders..

after getting all the water out you are supposed to change the oil.. and i would replace the plugs also but not sure if its needed..

 

yeh the same thing happen to me twice once i drove it 4 a while to get the o2 hot the air fuel started reading right...so all it is the o2 sen got wet from the water that passed trought the exh..

 

checked my o2 sensor and its still good but still running lean and some white smoke from muffler...i adjusted my fuel pressure to 50 psi so the injectors can get cleaned out and so the injector cleaner can go through more quicker....is there anything else i have to do in order to prevent rust in motor?

 

nobody knows why im running lean?

 

what makes you think your running lean?

 

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if your going off a cheapo autometer a/f guage i would not trust it at all...

did you pull the plugs out yes to check them???

 

yea i pulled the plugs and everything is normal...when u run lean u throw alot of white smoke correct? it idles hella funny and sometimes will want to die out when idleing...will swapping to a chipped p28 fix this problem? cause im getting one anyways. Thanks for the help people.

 

just put in my xs engineering chipped p28 and its more better but its still throwing hella white smoke...can it be a blown headgasket? its still drivable but tends to throw a whole lot of white smoke...anybody know?

 

Have you changed the oil yet?? water or gas in the oil will cause smoking out the exhaust.

 

changed the oil 2 times and gonna do it a third time to make sure...i smell hella gas from my car now...wat does that mean?

 

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is it gas or burnt collant?? first off you said that car was running "lean" and now you smell alot of gas... i would get the compression checked out right now.. it sounds like a blown headgasket to me..

 

yea i need to go do that also but didnt have time to do it yet....i wont be able to drive my car if its a blown head gasket correct?

 

got the compression test today and everything was good 200 +/- 5 on all four cylinders...

 

check your radiator for white stuff. maybe water got in your cat and it is just burning or steaming out. let it idle for a while check your plugs.

 

radiator fluid is still hella light green...i have a test pipe on it so i dont have a cat...mechanic said it was something with the valve stem seals??? can that be it?