Washing Engine Bits

[chugga]

hi,

my girlfriend thought it might be a good idea to hose down her engine

now when she starts it, it the engine shakes as if its miss firing

how do i fix this?.

she has an R33 skyline the same as mine.

[Bov]

Spray everything electrical with CRC

Then let it sit for half a day. Then give it a go

Cheers

Bov

[justin911]

i had something like that in my old car.

Somehow water had gotten in the bits where the spark plugs go.

We used a high pressure air hose thingy to get it all out and off she went again.

hi,

my girlfriend thought it might be a good idea to hose down her engine

now when she starts it, it the engine shakes as if its miss firing

how do i fix this?.

she has an R33 skyline the same as mine.

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[chugga]

will it eventually dry without pulling things appart

the engine in running real rough.

what happens if she drives it

[Duncan]

most likely if she keeps trying to drive it she will foul the spark plugs, so even when the water dries up it will still drive like crap due to the plugs. But its not like you would kill it

[chugga]

i started it this morning and was ideling fine. then i started driving and drove like crap, sounded like a WRX and the whole car shakes.

does this sound like the spark plugs.

[lwells]

It sounds like its missing, hence the weird sound. Could definately be a fouled plug (alternatively, perhaps there is still water around the coil). Seems to be very common when people wash their GTS-t engine bays without sufficient care.

[SECURITY]

take your coils out and use high pressure air to blow the water out of the spark plug hole, if you dont have a compressor then just use some kind of thin fabric to soak up all of the water around it. put it all back together after making sure your coils are dry too, then should run fine after that.

Edited October 2, 2005 by SECUR1TY

[Damo]

Chicks and maintenance on a vehicle makes me laugh. Reminds me of a mates girlfriend who cleaned his motorbike and put tyre shine on the wheels, not just the sides but the whole tyre. First corner he came to he washed out sideways. She will never live that down.

[chugga]

well the motor was grubby she said, shes a funny one

[chugga]

but the motor was so grubby she said!!!!!!!!!!!!

[philta]

u could not believe how much trouble me and a mate had with our r33 after high pressuring the engine bay, his alarm went off and my wipers got possed by the devil.

keep goign off by it self. just let the egine dry. start it or a air gun and blow it out good.

leave it to dry...should do the trick after over night.