My 97' is a daily driver soo after winter the engine bay was pretty dirty. I decided to clean out the engine bay on Saturday thinking it would be no big deal and I cleaned it the same way that I always have. However, when I went to the Auto-x yesterday, the CEL began blinking and the car was stuttering quite a bit.

I have looked at everything and I think the problem is that there is a bit of water in the spark plug hole of cylinder #4. Now I have to figure out how to catapult water out of a 4" deep hole. A towel could only get soo much. I'm thinking canned compressed air will work. Any other ideas. I really don't want to drive the car much more with a misfire and cause more damage

I thought I had been careful about cleaning the engine bay, but I guess not. I really think that I have caused the problem by attempting to clean the engine bay.

 

I doubt water in the spark plug hole is the culprit. Have you checked the CEL code yet to see what it is? Did you cover up the distributor & fuse box?

I'm guessing you got some water in the distributor.

 

I'll run the code tonight. If I can't figure it out its going to a shop tomorrow as I don't want to drive it much with a misfire. I didn't check out the distributor. I checked the wires that connect to the distributor and all were dry. I guess I could install my cap and rotor while I'm at it. .

I need the old hammer Icon as I deserve one of those right now

 

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I'm guessing that is you give it a little time to dry out, all will be back to normal. If you already have a cap & rotor, it wouldn't be a bad idea to swap them - or at least open it up to check for moisture.

 

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Thanks y0!, I feel much better now

 

I had that happen and it just went away after a few hours. I believe it was the dizzy gettin' wet. I always cover the dizzy and cone filter on the end of my J's intake.

Maybe try unhooking you neg battery cable and reseting the code.

 

larkin,

don't feel too bad about getting water in your plug holes. when i did my plugs last year, i noticed minerals/rust in my head and on my plugs...i would frequently spray down my engine bay. but i never did get a check engine light from washing the engine bay.





kepani

 

take the sprayer part from a spray bottle and use that to suck up/spray out the water from the cyl.

 

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Thats a damn good Idea

I'll have to check the Dizzy too. Maybe that is the main problem and maybe an ECU Reset will do it. Searching for water sucks. I should've just left the engine bay dirty

 

pull out the ECU fuse....the blue 15amp in the fuse box next to the battery.

Remove the/all sparkplugs, and unclip the injectors and crank the car and watch the pretty water shoot up out of the valvecover.

 

WD40, had the same problem, spray some down there and it will be gone. WD=WaterDisplacement or soemthing like that.

 

This has happen to me about three times, my car would throw a misfire code, and every single time it was water in the spark plug holes. Just use compressed air to shoot the water out, and let it dry up with the spark plug wires out for an hour or so.

 

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but just a word of caution you might want to cup a nice dry cloth around the nozzle that you insert into the spark plug opening... that keeps you from taking a bath in some nasty water and it also keeps that dirty water from getting all over your nice clean engine bay..

 

Fixed It was just the water in the plug well of cylinder #1 causing the problem (Misfire). Sprayed tons of air everywhere and she's now good to go. Main problem seamed to be water deep in the plug wire itself. Attempted to replace cap and rotor while I was at it and I halfway stripped the rotor screw Gave up as I had homework to do.

On a side note, here's my clean engine bay. Not bad for a daily driver



and here's where my car sat for most of the Auto-x

 

for some reason i shy away from using the pressure washer in my engine bay, i guess this would be one of the reasons