At 12:14 PM 17/04/98 -0300, you wrote:
...
>Derek Drew has driven to top of turn signal depth, on 27/8.5/14 tires,
>likely about ~20" depth, I guess same here.  I quit when water starts coming
>into the foot wells, want to keep the carpets dry. Some day I need a
>volunteer to lie in the back with the engine lid off and watch what goes on
>in deeper waters.  In front engined 4x4 a bit of speed sets up a bow wave
>with a hollow behind it where the engine lurks, dunno what a vanagon does,
>so I drive very slowly, while the exhaust burbles happily.  Like Bjorn said,
>steam everywhere.
>
>bye, Tim
>
>
Make sure that the volunteer has a snorkel. I drove into water at night and
the "bow" was temporarily under water up to the lights. In other words I
lost sight of everything and sudden darkness befell me (my poetic version).
If you keep moving then there seems to be enough of a wave to keep the
electrical parts of the engine out of the water for short deep encounters.
Stay away from bigger puddles that have names though. :-)

Bj�rn

Bj�rn Ratjen

1987 Syncro Est Alia (self camperized)
1995 Passat TD
(1982 Vanagon Diesel)
1979 VW Bus (self- camperized)