It's not a boat

[humfrz]

Originally Posted by ermax

Hey hey, the IS300 is actually fairly light (3250lbs) considering it has an iron block inline 6 in it. The water wasn't an issue, it wasn't like I was pushing it at 20mph. The incline was very gradual so it wasn't that bad and there was actually one guy who jumped out of his car to help.

OK,OK, I got the picture -

But, was it snowing - and was it uphill both ways??

(still messen wich ya - )

Reminds me of back-in-the-day, when I was living in CT. It was a spring day and it had rained all night. I headed to work in my MGB at our corporate HQ, dressed in a suit, when I approached some standing water on a back road.

Yep, I thought I could make it, almost did, but then the engine quit running. A good ol boy, in a pickup stopped and helped me push it out of the water. I took off my T-shirt and used it to dry out the distributor cap and she fired up.

Walking around all day in squishy shoes reminded me of my Army days.


THE END


humfrz

[Tcoat]

Originally Posted by stevesnj

Proof if the car had more power it never would of gotten stuck.

[stevesnj]

Originally Posted by Tcoat

LOL...I was thinking of the Lotus submarine scene from James Bond when i first saw this.

[Impureclient]

^ I did that with my 87' Iroc-Z once where the water flowed up onto the hood and thinking about it now, I don't know how I made it through that.
Looks like that Garrardoo is in about 1' of water and pretty sure I was about 2' deep.

[Stephen W.]

You talk about snow and Jeeps and floods???
I took this photo on my way into work a couple of years ago. Our road was worse but this guy should have known not to park where he did.

[extrashaky]

Originally Posted by Stephen W.

You talk about snow and Jeeps and floods???
I took this photo on my way into work a couple of years ago. Our road was worse but this guy should have known not to park where he did.

Mine has a cowl intake (not a dorky schnorkel, mine's hidden) and a sealed coil rail seated directly on the plugs. Mine would probably start right up and drive out of that after the ice melted, depending on how water resistant my "waterproof" alternator really is. Even the axle vents are above that water line.

In fact, even the stock intake is probably above that water line. Water would get into the airbox, but the intake is on top of it pointing straight down so that water can't really run into it until the filter itself is submerged.

[MrDinkleman]

Won't the water blocking the exhaust kill the engine, eventually? I remember a guy in high school had one of those surplus army jeeps. Not only did it have a windshield mounted snorkel but if also had an extended exhaust pipe that ended above the windshield height...
Hmmmmm... I wonder if that is where those bosozoku in Japan got the idea for those high exhaust pipes... Must have been plenty of army jeeps in post-war Japan...

[Sapphireho]

Originally Posted by MrDinkleman

Won't the water blocking the exhaust kill the engine, eventually? I remember a guy in high school had one of those surplus army jeeps. Not only did it have a windshield mounted snorkel but if also had an extended exhaust pipe that ended above the windshield height...
Hmmmmm... I wonder if that is where those bosozoku in Japan got the idea for those high exhaust pipes... Must have been plenty of army jeeps in post-war Japan...

My understanding is when the US started occupying Japan they didn't want to have to ship jeeps there, so they told Toyota to start making jeeps for our troups. That is why you have old Toyotas that look a lot like jeeps.

[Spuds]

Originally Posted by MrDinkleman

Won't the water blocking the exhaust kill the engine, eventually? I remember a guy in high school had one of those surplus army jeeps. Not only did it have a windshield mounted snorkel but if also had an extended exhaust pipe that ended above the windshield height...
Hmmmmm... I wonder if that is where those bosozoku in Japan got the idea for those high exhaust pipes... Must have been plenty of army jeeps in post-war Japan...

Not if you keep the revs up.

[Spuds]

Originally Posted by Sapphireho

My understanding is when the US started occupying Japan they didn't want to have to ship jeeps there, so they told Toyota to start making jeeps for our troups. That is why you have old Toyotas that look a lot like jeeps.

Our troupes?

[extrashaky]

Originally Posted by MrDinkleman

Won't the water blocking the exhaust kill the engine, eventually?

It shouldn't. As long as the engine is running, exhaust will continue to flow underwater and will bubble to the surface. It only stops if you actually obstruct the flow of exhaust, like with a rag or a potato. It used to be a popular prank when my dad was a kid to go stuff a potato in some other guy's exhaust and laugh when he tried to figure out what was wrong. If it's just water, the water will get out of the way.

Originally Posted by MrDinkleman

I remember a guy in high school had one of those surplus army jeeps. Not only did it have a windshield mounted snorkel but if also had an extended exhaust pipe that ended above the windshield height...

Some of the parish and state emergency management trucks in Louisiana have those. Those are there not for while it's running, but for when you stop. If you stop an engine while the exhaust pipe is underwater, it can suck water back up into the muffler and catalytic converter. Even just sitting still when floodwater rises, it can run into the exhaust. In flood prone areas there may be times when emergency personnel want to be able to stop and get out without leaving their truck running or may need to use previously parked vehicles in areas that have been flooded.

I imagine the military Jeeps had them just to make sure they were always ready to go.

[Sapphireho]

Originally Posted by Spuds

Our troupes?

MASH was based on the Korean war.

Yea, typing on a phone sucks

[Tcoat]

Originally Posted by Sapphireho

My understanding is when the US started occupying Japan they didn't want to have to ship jeeps there, so they told Toyota to start making jeeps for our troups. That is why you have old Toyotas that look a lot like jeeps.

Nope. Urban legend at best. There were something like 300,000 Jeeps in the Pacific at the end of the war and transports were going back and forth to Japan by the hundreds. They didn't need to build any more Jeeps.
The real story is quite different:

https://thechive.files.wordpress.com...rip=info&w=600

[Tcoat]

Originally Posted by Sapphireho

MASH was based on the Korean war.

Yea, typing on a phone sucks

I served 6 months with a MASH unit (well the Canadian version) in Egypt in 79.
It was not nearly as fun as the show!
Other than the nurses.
The nurses were pretty much like on the show.