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• hit a "road lake" during a heavy rain fall by failure on 04 Aug, 2010 05:30
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  1997 1.9td
  
  Like title says, hit a huge puddle (road lake) during a heavy rain fall
  
  Motor sucked up a bunch of water whole engine bay got drenched..! stalled right in the middle of the road lake..
  
  
  can a injector pump short out? There seems to be a audible ticking noise coming from either the injectors or the pump itself.. and alot of smoke coming out of the tailpipe!
  
  any ideas?
• #1 by burn_your_money on 04 Aug, 2010 08:22
• You can short out the stop solenoid on the pump.
  
  I would inspect the timing and then do a compression test. Is the air filter wet?
• #2 by failure on 04 Aug, 2010 08:46
• the filter was soaked
• #3 by burn_your_money on 04 Aug, 2010 08:48
• What color smoke do you have?
• #4 by failure on 04 Aug, 2010 08:53
• blue-ish
• #5 by Vincent Waldon on 04 Aug, 2010 09:02
• Yeah, it only takes a few cc of water to hydralock the engine and bend one or more rods... compression test will tell the tale.
• #6 by smutts on 05 Aug, 2010 11:14
• You won't be the last either, several manufacturers love putting their intakes at the bottom of the engine bay. My Renault lost this battle of compressing the incompressible by tossing it's guts through the crankcase.