My hood was shut and this happend



now my car won't start new plugs are in it and it still won't fire any help would be appricated

 

Hot Pot of Coffee! No water in the distributor or anything? I assumed you thawed it out?

 

YOUR Hood was shut and all that snow got in? check the distributor? does it even turn over?

 

yea i took of the distributor and it was dry and it turns over just doesn't fire its been 4 days since it happend it happend friday i put starting fluid in before i put hte plugs in to see if that would help but it still doesn't want to fire

 

Do you have spark?

WD-40 everything

 

the engine harness might be wet with snow.. is the ecu throwing any codes? where do you live and is there any way to get the car inside for a few days to let dry? with all that water it might have fried the ecu or even just blew a fuse check all that stuff and get back

 

may have water in the spark plug ports. pull the wires and dry it all out. first i would get all the snow out. did you take the hood off for the picture? i washed my wife's miata and got water into the ports and had to dry it all out before the plugs would fire.

 

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thats one thing i will never miss about indiana

 

Noway that could happen with the hood shut. I live in philly area and we get a nice amount of snow each year and Ive never seen that happen b4. Take a blow dryer to everything.

 

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Put the car in a garage or a shop or something and let it warm up to get that **** out.

 

W O W ! gl

 

yes the hood was shut i don't know how the snow got that bad under there but i was told to check the coil it doesn't fire at all i am going to replace the coil to see if that helps and i took a blow dryer to it and everything so far still nothing and dryed out the plugs and plug wires but now there are new plugs in it

 

also not throwing any codes at all besides intake temp which it started a wekk before the snow i even switched ecu's

 

dang... i'm glad i live in FL.

 

wow how did this happen? :thumbsdown:

 

Yep his hood was shut lol. It was VERY VERY Windy out so I'd figure it blew up under. Bad snow drifts that day too.

 

try and get that in a garage and get it thawed out, Or use compressed air to blow all the snow out of there. I would ohm out the coil to see if its bad and check the resistance of the other sensors in the dizzy. Check all your fuses. Do you have a spare dizzy or maybe a friends that you can borrow?

 

Umm whats a Dizzy and me and a friend pludded a plug and plug wire out to see if it fires and it did but it still won't start for some reason from everything i know it should fire shouln't it

 

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yea because your car under 4 feet of water is MUCH better

 

how would i dry the spark plug ports any ideas i think thats what might be wrong changed coil and everything

 

when you check your oil...do you see any water in the oil....if you do change the oil asap.

Take all the spark plugs out and hold a hair drier or heat gun about 3 cm away or close enough not to melt the plastic sleeves.....
do this for each port for about 15 minutes

 

pull the wires and stick some paper towel down in there for about five minutes. pull it out and if it's wet then there was some moisture in there. after doing this you can pull the plugs and see if they are dry or not.

 

first i'd be woried bout your battery freazing and exploding THEN try to get the car started. also if the dizzy frose the cap could have cracked. also what about fuel delevery? are your lines frozen?

GOD I"M GALD I LIVE IN SO.CA NO FREEZING ****! JUST STUPID SMOGS AND EARTHQUAKES

 

damn that sucks, if it were me ide stay inside screw my car

 

my lines arn't frozen, the dizzy isn't cracked its sitting here in the house with me right now and i don't think there is water or anything down where the plugs are because the plugs arn't wet or anything when i pull them out