I set off from work tonight with severe flooding in the immediate vacinity to my work.
Last time we had flooding this bad i had to go 32 miles out of my way to get the normal 9 miles home, i thought bugger it i will get the map out and look for some cut throughs. I work in quite a remote rural area so i set off on my way.
Got through some pretty deep water in the trusty 2.1td estate steed then half a mile before i hit the main road i wad aiming for i came to another deepbit that i thought the old girl would take in her stride.
Wrong!
We she made it through fine and i sat on the uphill slope after passing through the flood to just let her tick over and ensure all was well before i carried on and it spluttered to a stop.
It restarted immediately and i tried to drive off, as soon as the engine was under load by letting the clutch out it spluttered and died.
It re started again and i left it 5 min of idleing with lots of stem/white smoke coming out the back. It idled perfectly but as soon as i tried to rev it it died.
Then it failed to restart on 5 attempts, it was just convilsing badly.
On the 6th time it started and i left it running again for another 5 minutes with no revs.
then i began to apply the revs, a little at a time. I got to 2k revs then it would not hold continuous revs, it would just drop with the accelerator held in the same place. then is stalled again.
I took the opertunity to remove the air filter housing and wated ran out of it
I thought it may start and rev better with no filter bit it didnt.
I finally got it running agian with a flying Scotsman amount of steam coming out the back and i let it idle again, after another 10 min i gradully increased the revs until i felt sure it would drive.
I went forwards and backwards a dozen times to make sure it would drive and not cut out on the next bit of water i could see only 40m down the road.
It drove and got on the main road ant it performed faultlessly on the way home [/]fingers crossed[/].
I got it home and stopped it then it restarted straight away.
New filter tomorrow and a note to myself to spend the extra on the diesel to go the safe, long way round to get home next time, or buy a land rover!
Its fair to say i thought i had ferked it!
Im having a celebrator beer now
I just hope its alright in the morning
