Thread: water crossing now rough running

I have had this problem.....

When you take the plug of your MAF, the car will still run, I would bet you have water somewhere you haven't looked!

Mine would do the same thing, I bought some electrical grease, pulled everything apart, cleaned and packed them in grease...... since I took the time to do this, the Land Rover god's have been pleased.

I went through a "puddle"........ 4ft deep..lol, headlight's full of water, but didn't miss a beat! even with a Pod Filter on.

So spend around $20 and you should see this problem vanish, with your MAF, Im on this road now, firstly clean it properly, with MAF cleaner or contact cleaner, it will help for a while........ if you do need to replace the MAF Saab 900 turbo's use the same Lucas 5AM MAF..... and can be sourced much cheaper.


I think doing the above has been the best thing I could have done to my Disco, I alway's had issue's after water crossing's....... now, It's never a hassle, all for an hour or so and a few buck's

Good luck

well put everything back together and it goes well.drive it,turn it off and try to start it and it wont run and backfires.disconnect the maf plug and filter and she starts and idles plug it back in and it dies again.to start it again pull the plug and filter off, away she goes.put it all together again and it drives.turn it off and crap again...im assuming the maf is gone?

Hi Syktlr

I think your on the money....... just disconnect the MAF, it will run really rich and cost you stack's in fuel, (just finished fixing this on mine) it should run with the air cleaner on and MAF off.... have you tried blasting the MAF with a carby cleaner or similar? ...... it will help, might even get through the silly season, all the best of luck
Shane

Get a hairdryer and dry your maf really well, might be some condensation causing the odd miss.