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car runs realy bad after hosing down engine

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  • Start date Start date Jan 29, 2009

mob

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So maybe this wasent the best idea but I sprayed my engine down with degresser and ran it over with a hose. Now when I start my car it bearly drives, it runs like its on 2 cylinders or something. Im guessing either I got alittle bit of water in my intake, or the module on the distributor got wet, would either of these cause that? Itll run alright for a little but then when I get to 3krpm it has NOOOO power at all, and itll pop a few times, kind of like the timing is wayyyyy off, the car idles fine, and when its sitting and I rev it up itll hesitate at first but I can rev it up no problem, should I let the car just idle for a while to let everything dry off? Reset the computer??? any ideas?
 

93 LX

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the dizzy is wey.. take off the cap and spray WD40 inside and then fire it up. Or leave it and it will dry over time.....
 

mob

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ha this is rather embarrassing, a mod can delete this if theyd like, I opened my dizzy cap and all the leads to the spark plug wires were wet and there was moisture in there, guys I know not to do that again.

edit:Thanks 93lx beat ya to it but it would have fixed the problem
 

Mr. Rustypwnz

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lol ive done this ALOT
 

Foxfan88

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ive done the same too, it took mine like 5-6 hours to finally run correctly again, i just let it dry normally.
 

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I did this on my 65 ranchero with a 289 when I was 16. kind of funny at the time as I knew little about cars still and thought I blew the motor.
 

RYC CUKR

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I think that most of us have been there and done that. I know that i have a couple of times in the past.
 
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