Drove the 51 to the World Championship Chuckwagon Races at Clinton Arkansas last week. Well the Little Red river was up due to recent rains and I needed to cross it. After debating a bit we dove, er drove in. Stayed slow to minimize splash. Wound up crossing 3 times in all. I did keep the brakes engaged while crossing to minimize the classic "no brakes" on the other side.
Made it OK, however I felt I should have been a bit better prepared by either spraying the distributor cap with silicon or WD40. Back in the day I'd have pulled the plug wires and applied a bead of silicon around each spark plug tower on the distributor and around the base of the distributor cap. However for just a bit of splash protection, that's a bit much.
Anyone felt the need to take any of the above steps, if so what'd you do?
