Looking for Deepwater Fording and Wadeproofing CMPs

[Phil Waterman]

Hi
Yes now after looking at the photo enlarged I see that I was off by half not a V8 but a inline 4. Interesting to note the liberal use of sealing compound. Interesting that no effort was made to water proof the generator, I had been wondering how you could waterproof open case generators. But then again they are taking a lot of water through the body just driving down the road in a heavy rain. Wonder if they figured that the failure rate from water immersion would be the same or lower than the failure rate from excessive heat for operating the engine with waterproofing in place.

Also back to my post about the What is the lowest component that will stop the engine if goes under water. As I said on my C60S and C60L this component is the lowest that I am seeing that if it goes under water at 33 inchs above ground has the potential to destroy the engine fairly quickly. It is the air intake for the brake booster. My reasoning is that if you hit the brakes with the booster air intake under water the unit will take a full slug of water. When you release the brake the chamber is then vented to the vacuum side. Now the question is will 20-25 inchs of manifold vacuum suck that water directly into the intake manifold.

Cheers Phil