The oil was changed just 2 months ago...it doesn't leak or burn oil, so THAT shouldn't have caused this compression issue. I don't run the car hard, only around town and like I said all seemed fine until I went through about 8 inches deep of water about 6 feet long at about 35/40 mph..then started l...

Well, changed the coil and now there's
fire to the plugs, new distributor cap, rotor button and new plugs, tried the lawnmower syndrome thing, the cambelt appears to be ok, but stiill no compression. Does the serpentine belt being off have any
significance to this problem?

Does the 850 use throttle body or multi-port fuel injection?

Removed the cam cover, cambelt looks good

By the way, please pardon my ignorance, but what is "lawnmore syndrome?"

forgot to mention that the cap and rotor were changed the next day, still no fire to the plugs...

Big problems with my '97 850..I drove the car through a puddle of water about 8 inches deep at about 35 mph, all of a sudden I heard a kind of whirring or winding sound, started losing power and coasted to a stop. Tried to jump the car to no avail. :x The next day we found that the serpentine belt h...

Sorry...didn't know that the 940 is RWD....

Is the '97 940 bolt pattern the same as the '97 850?

How difficult is it to replace the wind shield wiper resevoir on the 850?