the 3rd pic is just a zoomed in cut and paste copy of the 2nd pic. btw, truck is entirely stock and the mud/water was bout a foot deep, maybe a few inches more.
I had mud even inside my door jams all the way to the roof, however it was very little and none got past the rubber insulator. Did get bit of mud stuck somewhere in the rear that gave a squeak near the driveshaft but it went away after spraying it with a power washer.
Last edited by Drychtnath : Apr 7th, 2006 at 01:50 PM.
Just curious as to how much mud was on your Intake airbox? I'm sure a lot of us with open air CAI's would really be interested in how protected these intake actually are in a situations like that!
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I had mud all the way inside the doors and up the sides, but the ruber seal stopped it, took awhile to clean out, was a little mud in my intake box, and my engine compartment was completley muddy. Took a long time to clean and I almost got stuck in there. I headed into it going like 15 MPH and was crawling through towards the end at like 1-2MPH lol. Zero damage to my truck but a bent license plate. No squeaks or anything.
I went through a similar hole as this one, although it was a little more sandy. I didn't get any water or mud in the intake, but the one after effect i'm still worried about is my throw-out bearing (I have a 6-speed) has continually gotten loud since my one offroading experience.
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I'm heading to the dealer today to have it looked at. Even if i did get some water and sand into the bell housing it shouldn't have damaged the TO bearing. My first truck was a 89 hardbody and i got it stuck so badly the fan was slapping water as it turned and the distributor was underwater. The TO bearing on that truck had over 70,000 miles on it. It finally made noise at about 115,000. I then had a 98 frontier 4x4. I had it in a local river a few times, we drive out to a limestone flat spot and park. Where we parked was only a few inches deep, but the path you had to take to get there was so deep that you could only see the very top of the finder flares on the truck (it 31x10.50s on it). Again no TO bearing problems. So i'm currently a little chapped that my new NiSMO frontier (which nissan is billing as their best offroad truck ever) can take a sand hole without me having problems.
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More update, check engine soon light came on. Drove to the dealership and had em check it out. Turns out that I had gotten mud on the ECM grounding wires. They simply cleaned it up and it went out. Warranty covered it. ECM grounding wires being cleaned sounds fishy to me but.. heh
Looks like fun, but I've got to say you were lucky! usually with that kind of speed and "bow wave" you have a very good chance of ingesting water. Do you know what happens when a piston trys to compress water? Saw it once when a ford truck was crossing the S Platte river here and did it too fast. Luckily one of his buddies was able to tow him out over the trail 30 miles back to town. He had a broken rod and other related damage. Something else to be aware of. My 05 Nismo came without any kind of extended vent tubes on both axles. I assume all frontiers are this way. Don't know why in the world Nissan would be so cheap. But this means if you spend any time in the water, there is quite a good chance you will end up with water in the diffs.
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