rzr6-4
Senior Member
I would never do dumb things near water, so asking for a friend...
Hypothetically speaking.....
Do these engines have some way of detecting water getting into the engine and shut themselves down as a safety measure, or if it shuts down does it actually mean you flooded the engine?
A few weeks ago I-.... someone I know was doing some mudding and hit a large water hole going too fast apparently. Water splashed all up under the hood, getting some in the air box, soaking the filter, and causing the truck to shut down. Immediate attempt to restart didn't work but after pulling the air filter and dumping a little water from the air box it started up no problem. Put the wet filter back in, seemed to be a little down on power with that but still made the 25min drive home. All that is to say, once it decided to participate, it started and ran fine like the water wasn't an issue, so I was just wondering if that shut down was more of a safety than actually getting in the way of combustion.
Also, the part of my air intake where it attaches to the fender....doesn't.
![air box.png air box.png](https://www.ramforum.com/data/attachments/537/537243-a31624e7faa8ac9483fc9d1da0b71486.jpg)
The end of this piece is about 1.5" away from where it is supposed to be. It is pulled away both in towards the motor and back towards the passenger compartment. Having this open area obviously didn't do me-...that guy any favors keeping water out of the intake, but would this also cause any issues with being down on power? Not getting a ram air effect since I think there's an air scoop in the fender that it's not reaching?
Hypothetically speaking.....
Do these engines have some way of detecting water getting into the engine and shut themselves down as a safety measure, or if it shuts down does it actually mean you flooded the engine?
A few weeks ago I-.... someone I know was doing some mudding and hit a large water hole going too fast apparently. Water splashed all up under the hood, getting some in the air box, soaking the filter, and causing the truck to shut down. Immediate attempt to restart didn't work but after pulling the air filter and dumping a little water from the air box it started up no problem. Put the wet filter back in, seemed to be a little down on power with that but still made the 25min drive home. All that is to say, once it decided to participate, it started and ran fine like the water wasn't an issue, so I was just wondering if that shut down was more of a safety than actually getting in the way of combustion.
Also, the part of my air intake where it attaches to the fender....doesn't.
![air box.png air box.png](https://www.ramforum.com/data/attachments/537/537243-a31624e7faa8ac9483fc9d1da0b71486.jpg)
The end of this piece is about 1.5" away from where it is supposed to be. It is pulled away both in towards the motor and back towards the passenger compartment. Having this open area obviously didn't do me-...that guy any favors keeping water out of the intake, but would this also cause any issues with being down on power? Not getting a ram air effect since I think there's an air scoop in the fender that it's not reaching?