Water in coils of engine.

[d00dz]

long story short... Whist washing car ready for the show and shine.. Cleaning the engine bay with degreeser... few hrs later..pour water over the engine to get rid of stuff (friend who helped me wash car did this).... Driving home on the M4 car wouldnt go over 3000RPM., very scarey... it was going soo slow...

Another few hours later...

Opened up the coils and found the 1st one to be ok (no water), however 2nd one had about 3cms of water. Got most of it out. The other 4 havent been opened.

Now what should I do?

1. Leave it in my garage for 1week and dont drive it. Hopefully let it evapourate?

2. Take it to a mechanic BD4's in gladsville get them to look at it.

3. Try and fix it myself. Which is hard coz its very hard to gain access to the coils due to the throtle thingy.

4. Something else?

*sigh* any advice would be great.!

Im so sad now

[sproosy]

Take the crossover pipe off if you want to get access to the coil packs. Take them all out and see how much water/moisture is in there, if there is moisture dry and put it all back together and see how she goes.

Hope this helps

[Slide]

leaving water in there will cause the spark plugs to corode and they will very quickly.

Mine did the same thing after i washed my pod filter and subsequently it stuffed the air flow metre which caused the not going over 3000rpm in my car.

Also take the nipples off the bottom of the coil packs and dry the inside of them out aswell as making sure the spring or carbon is dry and clean off dirt.

[benl1981]

take coil packs out. Wipe everything down to get rid of excess water. Grab your gfs/wife/mums hair dryer to dry anything else up, or to dry out the coils. Not too close though that you burn anything or burn out the hairdryer.

Just an idea. Though with the driving you should have got rid of most of the water I would think..

[benl1981]

Also run car without the cover over the coil packs. If series 1 with the ifnitor module at the back then you'll have to cable tie this to the brake lines or something around the back

Good luck!

[Craved]

ecu diagnostics to make sure its not something else causing it.

3K rpm is like the limp home mode!

[d00dz]

How do u take off the crossover pipe?

[raz0r$harP.UK]

Like benl1981 said I bet its your spark plugs. Happened to me last time :confused:

Take a look at guides here and here.

Fix that and you should be right for dyno day

[d00dz]

hmm this may sound like a hassle but I dont have any of the tools...

Dont suppose anyone can come over now and help me out? or even Monday?

I dont have the courage to do it myself.

If not then id have to take it to BD4s and get it fixed.

[SECURITY]

you dont need to, they'll charge u a shit load, try a local mechanic or something.

you need to take ur spark plugs out and dry them.

[d00dz]

yea it sounds easy, but im having troubles taking out the corssover pipe, its kinda err hard to yank it out

[Zahos]

Also take the nipples off the bottom of the coil packs and dry the inside of them out aswell as making sure the spring or carbon is dry and clean off dirt.

And spray the springs and contact points of the coils with WD40...

When I had moisture corrode the contact points in my coils I had the same thing, it would splutter over 3000rpm. After cleaning them up, went back to normal.

[d00dz]

guys its all back to normal now.. went to local mechanic they fixed it all up...

I didnt have the time and courage and was too sad and pissed/annoyed to do it.

Cost was $80 which im hoping my friend will pay.

[[[d a n n y]]]

what was the cause??

water or plugs?

[d00dz]

of course water...!

When we opened up the 1st two coils yea saw water in the 2nd coil.

We couldnt access the other ones, so i took it to mechanic, also the fact that I dont have time to tinker with it.

Its all good now. Runs same or better than before...

Though now my rocket cover is cut in half Wanna get carbon fibre ones lol. anyone know where?

[Duncan]

.....Though now my rocket cover is cut in half....

ummm.....wtf?

[d00dz]

ummm.....wtf?

long story short friend tried to fix the coils but we couldnt get the crossover off... well i didnt really let him.

so we cut the rocket in half....

is that bad? where can i get a new one? or maybe a cf. one?

[benl1981]

f--k. Talk about a funny thing to do. You cut the piece that has Nissan 2500 twin cam etc written on it right?

You don't need this. On series 1 an ignitor module sits on it at the back that you would need to secure to something else (I cable tied mine around the brake lines to ABS module..its not heavy at all).

Just curious - what did you use to cut it? I would think that would be fairly hard to cut while in position there. A lot harder than removing the crossover pipe etc.

Thats funny...

BTW it keeps the coils cooler if you leave this cover off (i.e. the one you cut up) and you can change spark plugs easier. Not sure if a bit more heat may go into the intake crossover pipe - but I think it would be marginal.

[d00dz]

It was easy

Used a dremel

We cut it under the crossover pipe, so u cant see the cut. Its not moving and its firmly secured, besides the cut.

Should I put bluetak where the cut is? hehehe

[Rolls]

Mate that pipe takes 2 mins to take off, unscrew the bolts holding it on, undo the 4 clamps or so and just give it a tug and off it comes. How long did it take to cut in half, also how did you cut it?

Haha crazy people