I was on my way home on rt.9 in Framingham, Ma, when the road, which i could barely see flooded. I tried to pull to the right off the road and up a side street but a ******* jeep liberty decided he didnt want me to. i was forced to take the next road through a foot of water. Unfortunately my CAI does not have a water bypass. When i finally jerked to a stop i knew i was screwed. The water started to rise and i decided to start pushing. As the water started to rise more cars had fallen victims to the rain. The water went so high, the cars started to float away. When the firefighters got there i asked them to borrow a plug wrench, luckily they had one. When i got the plugs out, i peered inside with a flshlight. much to my dismay the cylinders had **** floating in them...so, my car is still sitting there. d'oh...

 

ah, sry for the loss,

 

Turn it over with the plugs removed to shoot all the water out. Then change your fluids and you should be good hopefully.

 

i tried to crank it with no plugs...and still nothing.

 

insurance?

 

u sir just got hydroLOCKED!

 

i dunno

 

water sucks, it really really sucks

 

Yah it sucks,

I know you'd pay $50 right now to have everything the way it was before this happened,
Why didnt you buy the AEM Bypass Valvle
$50 could have saved you alot,


Dont mean to be rude,

Do you have full coverage????

 

full coverage won't cover this ...there is a small way you might fix it...i think you have to change spark plugs and there might be a small way it'll start

 

i thought that the intake i bought had a bypass when i bought it but it didnt. i was just too lazy to exchange it. im not sure about coverage.

 

oh, well normally they dont come with them,
you have to buy one off of ebay,


Anyway, good luck with everything

 

wow i was in randolph MA today and my car went through about a foot of water as well - was on a one way street and didnt think the water was more than a couple inches until the water came over my hood. thank goodness i have a short ram intake. from now on, i will swear by them. my car didnt even sputter after i eased it through about a 10 foot stretch of water a foot tall.

anys, didnt mean to rub it in. SRI = u try jacking up the left side and cranking it with no plugs?

 

i took out the plugs and cranked it but it didnt turn over

 

battery dead and it wont crank or pistons seized to the walls won't crank?

 

seized, it just makes a loud click or bang

 

hey does the bypass vavle really work? Heard u lose some whp on it... but anyways i have the AEM CAI for my GSR and its oddly one piece...where would the air bypass go?

 

damn that sucks man sorry to hear it, **** almost happened to me, but i turned my car off and made some guy push me through.

 

When people ask you to crank it, do you turn the pulley itself (counter-clockwise by the way) with a 19mm wrench?


Modified by NightRider-gsR at 10:37 PM 8/14/2005

 

some other car forced you to take the road?

 

no, the water looked shallow enough for me to pass through so i slowed down and was going slow enough the car was trying to stall, when i felt the water slapping the underside of my car i turned the car off (wich saved my ***) and the guy behind me had a hemi so he gentally pushed me through the water and onto a drive way cuz i wasnt about to start my car the next day i checked my motor and the water only had made it up the intake pipe but not to the tb, towed it to a shop and they took the tb off to make sure it wasnt wet on the sinde and they check my chambers.. she started right up

 

any luck with the crank? You can also drain your oil...and wd40 and oil mix try to run it for a min, drain oil and wd40 mix, refill with oil and spray some wd40 int your spark plus holes and hope for the best...wd40 disapates moisture.

 

all AEM CAIs are one-piece, you have to cut it in half to install the bypass valve....personally i wouldnt do it because intake barely gives us enough horsepower as it is, i dont want to be losing any more...if i were u i woulda turned my car off at the 1-foot of water part....then waited til the flood passed before starting again...probably wouldnt have hydrolocked

 

how did a jeep didnt let you go? i would of stop mid-street and turn on my hazards

 

route 9 is like a main road. i could barely see, and figured if i had stopped i would have been hit. Also after i went through the water, it rose about 2 feet, up over the middle guard rail. A passat floated about twenty feet down the road the water was so deep