Regardless of whether it works or not, it's wrong. And totally unnecessary as well since there are many commercial degreasers that will do the job easily. I recommend Castrol Super Clean.

And you certainly don't want to be spraying cold water onto a hot engine. Great way to crack things.

 

It's not wrong if it works.


And who's to say it's right or wrong? It's my car...it's been done numerous times and no problems....my dads done it .....no problems....seems to work...no problems.

Just my thoughts.


And you cant JUST use degreaser...its got to get rinsed off somehow, someway. It doesnt rinse itself off. And no rag is going to be able to get where the water can.

Like I said...just use common sense about where you are pointing the water and everything will be fine.

And another note...he mentioned that the engine was on a hoist..no in the engine bay.

 

That's fine, and you can continue to do it. But clearly, it causes problems as evidenced by this thread. This is certainly not the first time I have heard of troubles caused by pressure washing an engine bay, and it won't be the last either.

 

Alrighty, problem solved.

Turns out when I steam cleaned the engine yesterday, the Fuel Cut connection came loose, and after the driving for seven hours, it eventually disconnected. Just had to reconnect. Sweet.

 

I just can't see any way the engine ran for 7 hours THEN had a problem with the water.

 

Case Closed!

 

your ALTERNATOR is deadand it ran fine afterwards because it took a while to drain the battery....at least that's what happened to me when i powerwashed my engine bay.

 

EXACTLY!

So...the "problems" with pressure washing were NOT "evidenced by this thread."


Glad you got it working again. Damn fuel cuts cause more problems then they fix!

 

Haha, no doubt. Oh well, I'm just happy I've actually got it running for the weekend, woo!

Thanks for all your help guys.

 

I thought that at first, but I still had power to everything so I didn't really think that was the issue. I still had power to everything even this morning.

 

oh.............more detailed info next time....glad it's running again.

 

Sorry, I really had no idea where any of the Fuel Cut components were located, so I had no way of suggesting this as a possibility.

 

no worries...we all do it sometimes when we panic.............post pics of the engine bay though.....i wanna see shiny stuff *cue in ADD*