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I washed my motor and my car is runing bad

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Old Apr 14, 2005 | 06:58 PM
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I have a b16a I think water got in to my distributor. I covered it with a shirt when i washed it and it did not look wet after washing it. The car actully ran fine for a couple of hours. Now it feels like it is running on onley 2 cylinders off and on mustly when i try to gas it it stumbles.. It has been like this for 3 days now. Iwas hopeing it would dry out on its own and be ok. What do you guy think.
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Old Apr 14, 2005 | 07:00 PM
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pull your spark plug wires....probably have a ton of water in there causing a missfire....just take air and blow water out....you should be good to go!
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Old Apr 14, 2005 | 07:16 PM
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<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by chad &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">probably have a ton of water in there causing a missfire....</TD></TR></TABLE>

that happened to me before.
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Old Apr 14, 2005 | 07:16 PM
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take off the distributor cap...its probably wet.

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Old Apr 14, 2005 | 07:17 PM
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I doubt it would be that, but its worth a try. I would check out all the connectors to make sure there dry but its possible you friend a module by getting it wet, good luck...........
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Old Apr 14, 2005 | 08:16 PM
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Yeah...I would definitely check your dist. cap and the plug wires...
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Old Apr 14, 2005 | 08:24 PM
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what kinda jackass uses a shirt to cover his dizzy, lol, j/k that is so redneck
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Old Apr 14, 2005 | 09:00 PM
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spray the inside of the dizzy w/ wd-40....

that will displace the water (aka water displacement formula 40)
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Old Apr 14, 2005 | 09:03 PM
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I did take off the cap and the was no water in there i also puled a couple spark plug wires and there was no water. Thanks for the sugestions though.
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Old Apr 14, 2005 | 09:05 PM
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or mabey elctric parts cleaner. Do you mean to take off the whole dist. or just the cap.
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Old Apr 14, 2005 | 09:06 PM
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that happened to me 2 i have a b16a ...take off the spark plug wires there will probably be water in there....and if not remove the distributer cap and dry it ...when that happened to me i was like damn its over for my motor but now its back 2 normal
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Old Apr 15, 2005 | 09:54 AM
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<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by katoeh2o &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote"> I did take off the cap and the was no water in there i also puled a couple spark plug wires and there was no water. Thanks for the sugestions though.</TD></TR></TABLE>


YOU DIDN"T TAKE THEM ALL OFF????

it is possible to get water in only 1 of them!!!!
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Old Apr 17, 2005 | 09:39 PM
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You guys were right there was so much water i the #1 sparkplug wire area. Took care of it today and it is running fine now. Thanks agin. I feel kinda stuipid that i didn't pull all the plug wires in the first place.
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Old Apr 18, 2005 | 07:04 AM
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<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by katoeh2o &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote"> You guys were right there was so much water i the #1 sparkplug wire area. Took care of it today and it is running fine now. Thanks agin. I feel kinda stuipid that i didn't pull all the plug wires in the first place. </TD></TR></TABLE>


sweet deal!!!!!!!!!

i guess i do know what i'm talking about....that is not directed to you katoeh2o...but to all the idiots that talk crap!!
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