I hit a creek flowing over the road outside of houston about a week ago. It was about 2 feet deep. After about 5 miles if I gave it more than 1/4 throttle it would studder and back fire until it hit about 2500 rpm then it drove like normal. about 2 minutes later it died and would not start.

I had it towed to my dads house and got it up on jack stands and the starter housing had shattered. I replaced it and it drove like normal. When i left I got on I 10 and when it hit opperating temp it started to run like crap again. So when i got home I tore it apart and put a new opti on it. It ran the same with the same simptoms as above.

What the hell do yall think is wrong?????


Tim

 

some kind of sensor down there it may have killed? that sux though.

 

I was told maybe the MAF but i dont know how to test that. Any suggestions?


Tim

 

you simply unplug the MAF sensor and see how it runs in speed density mode... (wich occurs if the MAF is unplugged)... is your SES light on?

 

some water might have got on the coil happened to me and it ran good till it got warmed up.

 

SES light is on now and it runs the same with the MAF plugged in or not. How do i check the coil?? just replcae it and see if its the problem?


Tim

 

If you take the coil off... you can take it to autozone and have them test it for free...


but 'm curious as to wy your started blew up on you...

 

Best bet is to scan the code generating the SES light...and work from there.

 

Thanks for the help. I will work on it from here tomorrow

 

O2's?

 

same exact thing happened to me, and the starter busted on me too. One thing you might want to do is check your oil, it probably has water mixed in it. Another thing is to check your plugs too. At least you didn't have to push it out of the puddle like I did since thats were mine stalled.