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Old Apr 6, 2006 | 12:55 PM
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Default Water in spark plug chambers

Well i was spraying down my engine bay and needless to say my spark plug wires dont sit flush on to the chamber. So i have water build up in the spark chamber. Im pretty sure i dont want to try and start it til i remove the water.

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Old Apr 6, 2006 | 01:01 PM
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Bump i need help
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Old Apr 6, 2006 | 01:08 PM
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hmmm, never had this problem myself... but what weather you have outside? just let it sit and evaporate? or get a hair dryer... and mount it pointing in the spark plug sockets....
or take the wire harness out of the sockets and put something in there to soak it up?

just some ideas?
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Old Apr 6, 2006 | 01:30 PM
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so it's just on top of the sparkplugs and not in the cylinders, right?
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Old Apr 6, 2006 | 01:30 PM
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Since you haven't started it yet..... try to let them evaporate for 24 hours with your hood open as long as you can....but before that dry them out as much as possible by sticking paper towels into the chamber...the problem i had was that i had to drive the car home when water got into my chambers and kentucky fried my spark plugs of course i had to get a full tune up afterwards because my car sounded like a tractor, and drove like a remote control car with a dying battery.
Good Luck.
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Old Apr 6, 2006 | 01:53 PM
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Problem solved...

Used an air compressor and blasted the water out and continued to dry the chambers.
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