Deep water troubles

[turbo_steve]

Hello All -

This past summer when pushing my truck through deeper water and for longer periods of time I would sometimes have an alarm sound go off, all my lights on the bottom of the stock gauge cluster would goe on, and I would seem to loose power steering. I figured this was likely due to a sensor getting wet, possibly on the power steering. I kind of forgot about it till our past wheeling trip. All of a sudden while wheeling all my notification lights were on, the alarm was going off, and I had no power steering, problem was I wasn't in water. It's winter here and we had been plowing through powder snow and I did have a lot of ice build up under the front diff and power steering pump area. After a small break the truck ran without the alarm and lights going and the steering was back to normal. I've done a bunch of searching but have no idea what it could be. Anyone have a clue what's going on? Thanks in advance for your assistance!

Cheers!

-Steve

[TonyN]

They often do that when you go wading and the alternator gets very wet or crap in it, sometimes take a day of two to dry out before it starts charging again.

Power steering must just be a slightly loose belt that then got wet, there is no electrical way to stop the P/S working, its just a belt and pump.

[blackpoolsparks]

I concur.

Same issue a few years back with alarm, etc.
Problem with alternator...

[turbo_steve]

I've just done my timing belt and water pump so we'll see if the newly tightened alt and PS hold up come spring. Thanks!

-Steve