Water, plus running engine, equals a bad, bad day. If you’re lucky, your electronics will quit before your engine starts drinking like a fraternity pledge and you’ll just spend hours making friends with WD-40 on every last wire underhood as you crank the water out of the cylinders with the plugs removed. If water makes it into the cylinders themselves and the crankshaft tries to make a piston compress water, the words you will be reaching for are “hydrostatic lock” and the words you are going to say…well, I’m not allowed to type most of them out. I promise with all of my honor, however, that “oh, darn” just isn’t going to cut it.
But nobody told these guys anything about that basic lesson, because this bit of water seems to be just a minor obstacle in a day of checking out the Canadian wilderness. Water crossings can be done in UTVs and on quads if you know what you’re doing, but there is a limit to just how deep you can go…take it from the guy who sank a Honda ATC200 in a “puddle” that was deep enough to hide the whole damn three-wheeler underwater. And to the guy in the 4Runner: Toyota makes some absolutely badass vehicles, including their trucks and sport-utilities, but one thing Toyota does not make is a submarine. Just puttin’ that out there for you.
