Goin wheelin this weekend and am going to have water almost up to my hood just to get where we are going. Has anybody had problems with water in the tranny or rears or screwing up any sensors or anything?

yep......last winter i had to replace a starter motor cause of a water crossing. other than that - all was great

might want to temporarily plug your diffs' breather tubes or more appropriately, raise them higher than the water level. You don't want water getting in the diffs.. What happens is the hot diffs stay hot and then you drop them in cool water and the temp drops. At that same time your submerging the breather.. what happens when air goes from hot to cold? that's right, it contracts.. therefore your diff literally SUCKS the water right in. If your diff fluid looks like frothy chocolate milk after or just dark from lack of maintenance, change it. frothy means water got in and your diff will not like that. Wanna say the trans has a breather but it's not easy to reach without serious dissasembly. Make sure you check your diffs, tcase, trans and oil after this. Remember your ECU is under the passenger side floorboard. jus sayin, lol. I don't know cause I have no exp here. I'd like to find out though. You may regret it or nothing bad happens.. those are the two extremes. the middle consists of quirks. I too would like more input on it. This is why I only really go deep in Snow cause snow unlike mud/water doesn't get into the electronics or flood the diffs or interior. It's a cleaner version of mudding.

How long were you in water for and how deep?

I have been fording rivers and going through creeks all summer without issue. I get my oil changed at Mobile-1 and have had them check the diffs and trans fluid regularly.
I don't know if what you are doing is more extreme, but I havent seen any problems yet. I do repack my Warn manual hubs every couple months due to high usage and river crossings.

Biggest concern I have when crossing deep water is engine air intake. I'm trying to come up with a snorkel that doesn't look like it belongs under my house. Axle breather tubes, moving ecu, and greasing the hubs have all been discussed in other posts. Let us know how it goes either way.
Good Luck
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I'll post something by the end of the weekend, hopefully with pix. If it does well, I guess I'll have to start saving for that lift. These are the guys I'm going out with, so you can see what I'm up against. Check out their site Misfits 4x4 Club

As long as you can keep forward motion you should be fine, just check everything when your done. If you get stuck in deep water shut off the engine asap and change all fluids.

Dennis

The Kia did surprisingly well. It climbed really well. A heavy right foot overcame most other weaknesses. I think I need to redo front pass side wheel bearings. The next day the CEL came on. I disconnected the battery and it never came back on. Need lift.