I was cleaning my engine bay today and I decided not to cover anything up and just sprayed some engine degreaser down and then finally use a low pressure sprayer to rinse it off. Immediately after I decided not to let it dry and just simply drove off (big mistake). When I pulled out I heard this "wub wub wub wub wub wub wub wub wub wub wub wub wub wub" noise. By the time I hit the first stop light the car died. I pushed it off onto a side road and eventually into a parking lot. I pulled the plug wires and saw a little bit of water, maybe a few drops in cyl #4. I have a feeling I got water in the dist cap.

Im going to go drive over there in a few hours and checkit. Maybe a wire got wet? maybe a fuse blew in addition to the water in the dist or spark plug hole? There was a push button starter installed on the car bypassing the regular "crank to start it" and I have been having probs with that, so Im going to replace the button in the meantime to get it home.

When I try to start it, it clicks twice but doesnt turn over.

Any other suggestions?

-ryan

 

Problem solved...there obviously was water in the distributor. I opened the cap and saw some gunk on the bottom and wiped off the window that makes contact with the spark plug wires. I repalced the momentary button and stuck the key in and pressed it...it STARTED to turn over...then BANG...fired right up. I got it home and turned it off after letting it idle for 5 mins...tried to start it again...no luck...so I kept at it, then it eventually fired up. Turned it off, and tried again...BANG. It starts perfectly now.

-ryan

 

Haaha That happend to me before on my prelude! I was at a car wash and i sprayed my engine bay all the way across the city then my car would not start.
I have 3 friends with me so they helped me push it to a shop, they tried to say that my distributor was blown and it would cost melike 400. I **** on that and said take the plugs out and dry them. couple hours later the car started and the ******* charged me 40bucks never again!

 

thats happened to me before also, i had alot of water in all the plugs so i drove the other car to autozone and bought some oil and changed it immieadiatly

 

yeah, it deffinetly sucks. The car seems to run fine now just like it did...I guess the plugs were a little wet along with the distributor...either way, it runs fine for now...

-ryan