Well today I took my h3 into a pretty deep muddy water pond. Water was about half way up the door. It took me prolly 10mins to drive out. Had water come in on the floorboard but that was it.

Just wondering best way to dry it out and although everything seems fine mechanically and electrically is there anything I should look at? The truck was in pretty deep but never stalled and ran fine all day.

 

Check to see if you got an water/mud in the following:
Air filter box, pop the lid would have pooled at the bottom
Fuse box, same, check to see if fuses are caked
Alternator, get some no conductive cleaner for starters/alternators and give it a good cleaning... I'm on my third one now

As for the interior you can pull the carpet and let it dry, or go to town w/ some cleaners and a hair dryer...

 

Cool thanks for the advice. I regret doing it now, but it was fun.

 

Remove the seats and pull up the carpet, clean up what you can and let it all dry, or get ready for a long duration of skanky smell.



You may consider that your 3 is a truck, not a boat?

 

You might also buy some waders or a cane pole with a cork to check water levels!

I would check the diff fluids to see if water came in the vents.

 

Check all the lubricants and fluids for water contamination and also grease all suspension components that are serviceable.

 

cool will do... the H3 has the funk right now... how hard to pull carpet?

 

As someone that used to do the deep water crap (fun but cleanup and repairs suck), check and clean all sensors under the hood, diffs, tranny, and really all the fluids and everything else under the hood. Once you pop the hood and are cleaning/inspecting stuff you may as well check everything. Diffs would be my main thing to check.