Floating Car:

Update on Liz's car.

We went down to get the floater after dinner.

It took awhile to get it started. After about 5 good attempts. Finally she kick over and ran,, pretty rough at first, sputtering and all. White smoke bellowing everywhere.. My theory is that the engine stopped when Liz was going through the deep water and filled the exhaust system with water. That'll kill an engine in a heart beat. Blocked exhaust. (BTW, the engine was not wet anywhere.) Drove it home, runs like usual. Oh, the bad part, water did get into the interior. The water actually was under the carpeting pushing it up, Never seen that before. I had to cut a slit in the carpeting with a utility knife to let the water surface to the top. We used the wet/vac to get the water out as much as possible. I'm quessing about 20 gallons of water. We had to empty the wet/vac 3 times. It should dry out okay in a few days. If it starts to smell nasty, I'll have to pull the seats out and remove the carpeting and let them air dry in the sun for about a week. I've worked on flood cars before at work, and we always remove the seats and carpeting, the customer / insurance company is paying big bucks on a flood vehicke. It could have been worse. I consider it a lesson learned for Liz. I didn't even Yell at her. LMAO!

Just a tiny bump in the road, think I'll go play with HK450 #2..

Dave