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Old Aug 7, 2005 | 01:03 PM
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Default Car wont start after washing motor? no spark

I dont get any spark now after washing the car. I'm thinking its the distributor, but i'm not sure what part of the distributor could have gone bad? what else would cause not spark? i dont have a cel, and i dont think its the t belt.

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Old Aug 7, 2005 | 03:07 PM
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When I had my single cam in my car I use to bag the distributor and wash the motor, but I did have this one incident with the water getting down inside where the plugs go on the spark plug. That caused it to run like ****, but to fix it I just used paper towels to soak up the water and it was fine. In your case I would try drying all that stuff out then going from their.
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Old Aug 7, 2005 | 03:15 PM
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more input please
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Old Aug 7, 2005 | 03:16 PM
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I doubt anything is broken, just dry everything off and it should be ok. Everything includes the spark plug wells in the head, the distributor cap, etc.
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Old Aug 7, 2005 | 08:49 PM
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distributor got wet
try it in the morning
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