Water Fording

LibertyFever · **Posted:** Sun Feb 15, 2009 4:19 pm

Okay, maybe your Libby can'r perform as well as the Libby in the commercial below...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wjs-gDzK ... re=related

but feel free to post a few pics of your Jeep water fording;

After this run I actually had some water on the passenger side floorboard. I'll either need to install a bilge pump of remove the carpet :lol:

The key to crossing deep water is not to splash water over the hood and not to stop in the middle of it.
http://www.jeep.com/trailrated/waterfording.html

A friend of mine dove into a big puddle with his TJ. He hydrolocked the engine, threw a piston rod out the oil pan and had to be towed out of the woods then all the way home :oops:

InCommando · **Posted:** Sun Feb 15, 2009 8:13 pm

The biggest key is to know how deep it is and don't drive in if it is too deep.

JL Rockies · **Posted:** Mon Feb 16, 2009 1:17 am

What did you say about water on the hood?

No water in the interior on this day.

durangotang · **Posted:** Mon Feb 16, 2009 1:28 am

WEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!

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JL Rockies · **Posted:** Mon Feb 16, 2009 12:20 pm

Yeah, the key to water fording in a KJ is keeping a good bow wake going. Once you're stuck, you have about 3 mins before things get wet.

corwyyn · **Posted:** Mon Feb 16, 2009 1:33 pm

ohv_kj · **Posted:** Mon Feb 16, 2009 2:36 pm

here's how i do it... i make sure there are no logs or sink hole or alligators ...i only do this for big bodies of water though just because it can get boring if your walking more then wheeling...lol

and the after math

to show you how deep it was...the Toyota is on 33's

we were able to make everyone go through it and the smallest was a Cherokee on 31"s because we made sure
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Tokyojoe · **Posted:** Mon Feb 16, 2009 11:30 pm

I'm waiting for the Kane Creek pics from `05 and `06 to come out. Beats them all.

frank6772 · **Posted:** Wed Feb 18, 2009 2:04 am

So Im wondering, has anyone had a problem with their idle air control going goofy after a water crossing? Im trying to figure out if any one else has had the same problem. but maybe its just me.

KJ 119 · **Posted:** Wed Feb 18, 2009 6:26 pm

frank6772 wrote:

So Im wondering, has anyone had a problem with their idle air control going goofy after a water crossing? Im trying to figure out if any one else has had the same problem. but maybe its just me.

No problems with water crossing so far.
What's it doing?

Oh yea,when you making the move to Belle Chase?We need more lifted KJ's in Louisiana.

Bub

riptricket · **Posted:** Wed Feb 18, 2009 9:29 pm

If that happened to me, I would rip out that carpet and line-x, herculine, or whatever is best to make it solid and a little bit more water tight.

BTW, which holes do you suppose that the water got in the most?

ObiHann · **Posted:** Thu Feb 19, 2009 7:37 am

riptricket wrote:

If that happened to me, I would rip out that carpet and line-x, herculine, or whatever is best to make it solid and a little bit more water tight.

BTW, which holes do you suppose that the water got in the most?

The door doesn't provide a very solid seal so it could be that.... I wouldn't line-x it, someone else here did and they said they could here every piece of gravel on the road basically, they still liked it though lol. I would get rubber/vinyl carperts and some drain plugs...

04jeepkj · **Posted:** Thu Feb 19, 2009 11:09 am

Stock Paragon Park a few years ago.

Inc · **Posted:** Thu Feb 19, 2009 2:38 pm

After I get my SFA done I'm gonna check out Fordyce and see how the jeep does in those water crossings. :shock:

jeepmedic · **Posted:** Thu Feb 19, 2009 3:14 pm

Check out this raging river :oops:

tommudd · **Posted:** Thu Feb 19, 2009 3:48 pm

washing the KJs belly off a little at 30 MPH :wink:

frank6772 · **Posted:** Sun Feb 22, 2009 9:40 pm

KJ 119 wrote:

frank6772 wrote:

So Im wondering, has anyone had a problem with their idle air control going goofy after a water crossing? Im trying to figure out if any one else has had the same problem. but maybe its just me.

No problems with water crossing so far.
What's it doing?

Oh yea,when you making the move to Belle Chase?We need more lifted KJ's in Louisiana.

Bub

So I've had the ECU re-flashed twice for water crossings. Running the A/C or defroster at idle will rev the engine up to 1200 rpm, and then stall on me. How am I supposed to go to work Monday morning and show off the weekend's activities without any mud on the KJ????
I'll be down south this summer. Where are the trails?!?!?!?

I so miss Paragon!
Not as deep as I have tried

2006 KJ · **Posted:** Sun Feb 22, 2009 9:53 pm

frank6772 wrote:

KJ 119 wrote:

frank6772 wrote:

So Im wondering, has anyone had a problem with their idle air control going goofy after a water crossing? Im trying to figure out if any one else has had the same problem. but maybe its just me.

No problems with water crossing so far.
What's it doing?

Oh yea,when you making the move to Belle Chase?We need more lifted KJ's in Louisiana.

Bub

So I've had the ECU re-flashed twice for water crossings. Running the A/C or defroster at idle will rev the engine up to 1200 rpm, and then stall on me. How am I supposed to go to work Monday morning and show off the weekend's activities without any mud on the KJ????
I'll be down south this summer. Where are the trails?!?!?!?

I so miss Paragon!
Not as deep as I have tried

mine had the same problem with the reving then stalling with the a/c or defroster on.. the dealer changed the IAC motor under warrenty

frank6772 · **Posted:** Sun Feb 22, 2009 10:51 pm

I LOVE WATER CROSSINGS!!! But my warranty expires in a few months. darn!

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