Yea I know....
I went from:
mad to
sad to
"man I'm an idiot" to
"well crap now what" to
"screw it" to
"laugh at myself and figure a way to prevent it".

and I missed that reply....thanks.

 

Vader I'm sure the guys at Troyer knew what they were doing, but I was cleaning up the engine bay last night and noticed I had some dried silty water spots sitting in the bottom of box on top the intake manifold. However, the air travels upwards through the filter and I didn't see any residue past the filter.

Was this the case with yours or did water actually travel UP through the filter?

At any rate, the intake location above the wheel sucks.

 

Oh it was past the filter...no doubt.

Nice drainage path

 

Use rubber hose to rute your front axle and tranny vents up into the engine compartment, get the rear vented up as high as possible also. Im in the middle of building a custom airbox and snorkel for my truck but unless your seriously into offroading you proably wont like the way your truck looks with 3inch tubing running up your a-piller.

-Jon

 

So what's the fording depth on a stock-height current generation 4x4 anyway? Tropical Storm Ernesto caused some high water around here, and I have yet to see anything published as to what the fording depth is. The Hummer H2 lists 20" right in their specs, but I haven't found anything about Fords.

 

You can make this depth higher but unless you overhaul the tcase (open shift motor and apply sealant), diff breathers, etc you cannot know for sure. I've been deep but I don't take chances I can't fix. This truck is not capable of holding up to heavy offroading so make sure you bring something to tow it home if you do otherwise. Borgwarner is known for their worm gear driven shift motors failing, I believe my problem goes further than that. I believe the chain is slipping teeth/clutchs are worn but I need to tear it down to find out. 20" is not deep at all, where are they measuring from (bottom of door?). If I were you I'd stick to about 10-12" from the bottom of the door, 20" is high if they're talking bottom of door. I know the H1 is much higher but I can't recall how high.