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HELP! I drove thru a puddle and the car died... it won't start... Please help. 700 1987

posted by  someone claiming to be Stefan Svard on  Sun Jul 28 16:20 CST 2002 [RELATED]

Ok - here's the deal, my wife and I were driving to church today and she drove thru a pretty deep puddle... the car stalled and would not re-start.

I checked the air filter, it's bone-dry, there is spark ( i pulled a plug and checked for spark and got a whoosh of flame from the exhale out of the spark plug hole...

So I pulled the injector wires and floored it and it started, but would not stay running. I did that several times till it seemed like I burnt up all the fuel in the cylinders and went to put the injectors back on, but it just wouldn't run at all with the injectors on. There was the smell of raw fuel...

I pulled the injecotrs again... and it would run again... put the injectors back on and it would not run...

Ok - so it also got water in the passenger footwell from a small rust hole in the floor... so I'm thinking maybe the computer got wet and that's why it won't run??

I'm going to pull the computer out and see if it's wet inside... but does that computer run the spark or only the fuel? if it's only the fuel then that would explain why maybe it won't run...

Soooo -- let me know if you have any input for me, and/or maybe a used ECU for the car..

It's sitting at church waiting for me to fix...

It's a 1987 Volvo 740 with the AW71L tranny and it is a NA engine (no turbo)

280,000 miles! (I want to make it at least to 350,000!)

Thanks!

Stefan
ssvard@juno.com






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