How deep can a LMTV go...

[dsanderlmtv]

I was on my boat this weekend and to my surprise I witnessed a LMTV that had gone a little to far into the water. The guy driving was trying to get across to a beach on a road that had been covered by the rising water from the snow melt this year.

 

[Coffey1]

What's his price to go pick it up at the lake lol

 

[infidel got me]

Does that need a tag or a boat hull number?

 

[fuzzytoaster]

It can go as deep as you want it to, getting it out is a whole different deal.

 

[NDT]

Wait till Fish and Wildlife sees an oil sheen around it. Party over. What a ignorant thing to do to a $10,000 truck.

 

[dmetalmiki]

Should have purchased a goat!...or..an OT64,. How did they get it out by the way, did you stay around to see them achieve that?

 

[dsanderlmtv]

Should have purchased a goat!...or..an OT64,. How did they get it out by the way, did you stay around to see them achieve that?

I did not see how they got it out but a friend told me they winched it out with another MV.

 

[Suprman]

I always thought if the engine was running the exhaust could submerge and be ok. And the intake stack is pretty high. A Diesel engine should run on under water. Wonder if the airbox was not sealed well.

 

[dmetalmiki]

It rather looks as though the lighter rear end was floated by the tires off traction?

 

[Shark Bait]

I always thought if the engine was running the exhaust could submerge and be ok. And the intake stack is pretty high. A Diesel engine should run on under water. Wonder if the airbox was not sealed well.

Maybe they got off the covered road and got stuck then had the brighter idea to shut it off? It shoulda kept running.

Dave

 

[dsanderlmtv]

I always thought if the engine was running the exhaust could submerge and be ok. And the intake stack is pretty high. A Diesel engine should run on under water. Wonder if the airbox was not sealed well.

I believe the truck was fine after he got pulled out. The problem was he drove off the edge of the road that is now covered with water and he couldn't get it out so he went and got help to winch him out.

 

[1954 COE]

Was the for sale sign an after thought I wonder?

 

[Suprman]

I would be afraid I would hit a big submerged tree or rock that I couldn't see.

 

[dsanderlmtv]

The road is about three feet deep right now but it has a curve that is hard to see unless you are flying over it like we did earlier that day in our T41A.

 

[dsanderlmtv]

Was the for sale sign an after thought I wonder?

I literally talked to the owner about two hours before he did this and the "for sale" sign was on the truck. I think he was trying to flip the sale because there are not very many LMTV's in the area but there is a ton of 5tons, get it.

 

[infidel got me]

Yep, a 5 ton would have drove right through that puddle!

 

[dsanderlmtv]

Yep, a 5 ton would have drove right through that puddle!

The same road claimed a 5 ton two days earlier, "just say'n"

 

[mkcoen]

No matter what he did to the engine whoever buys it is going to be chasing electrical gremlins for eternity.

 

[Suprman]

What's a little fresh water in your day. Nothing a good rinsing and some new relays and maybe a trans ecu. Salt water now that's another thing. The 5 ton is gonna need more help though. Bet it sucked in water.

 

[mkcoen]

I'm betting every connection has already started to corrode.