alright boys, so this past weds, i went for a little drive a trail around the corner from my house after some rains to see what all its done to the trail. very muddy and slippery as i am in the E. coast of the US. but there is this one rut that is usally pretty decently filled with water/mud. i hit the pretty hard on the way in, in 1st gear. and on the way out about the same speed in 2nd gear. but in the middle of it my jeep stalls and dies. it will crank just wont turn over to get the engine going. after about 30min of letting the engine cool down and the smoke going away, i try again and get a low humming sound as if theengine isn't fully compressing or something. but when i put it in first gear to try and get it to go it would stall <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/frown.gif" alt="" />. i've attriuted all of this to water while not much water could have gotten in, if any at all. a friend that pulled me home said thats what his charokee sounds like when he gets some water in the egine.
so i parked infront of my house letting it sit in the cold weather. jumped it yesterday and got the same symptoms. bt cranked it today and it ran almost normally full compression an all. ONLY i noticed my catlytic convter was red hot after letting the engine run and my friend said that she saw flames comming out of my tail put while i was letting it run :? any clues? and when i put it into gear after about a good 5min of runnin it stalled, mind you this is from full compression in first gear letting out and pushing on gas to move the car.