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Old Jun 24, 2004 | 12:41 AM
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Weird Thing Happened Today

I decided to wash the car cause Im thinking of selling it. So w/e I wash the outside, and I detail the engine bay as good as I can. Wash it, try not to let much on the electronics. Wait about 30mins and try to start. No luck, hmm Check Map Sensor, its ok. So w/e I had to floor it to start it. It barely ran and it sounded like it was on one rotor, maybe 2 barely. Maybe the spark plugs werent working or something. So w/e, I thought I blew my motor somehow or something. Left went to a friends party came home, and first turn over it starts and sits at a nice idle of 850 rpm. Im like WTF? So w/e my car is officially a spaz. Electrical Malfunction maybe?
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Old Jun 24, 2004 | 12:59 AM
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Moist doing its magic
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Old Jun 24, 2004 | 01:01 AM
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Pull the plugs and plug wires. Clean the plugs and dry them or replace them. Clean/dry the wires then put goop on them. Put anti sieze on the plugs and then try to start it. Make sure there's no water in the distributor before you put the wires back.
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Old Jun 24, 2004 | 01:56 AM
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Originally posted by GoRacer
Pull the plugs and plug wires. Clean the plugs and dry them or replace them. Clean/dry the wires then put goop on them. Put anti sieze on the plugs and then try to start it. Make sure there's no water in the distributor before you put the wires back.
Well its running perfectly fine right now, the only thing I can imagine was something was shorting out, but man the smoke screen of gas I let out was crazy, I mean light a match and I bet it would have lit =P. I guess it needed more time than 30mins to dry, my bad there for real =P.
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Old Jun 24, 2004 | 03:08 AM
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first of all, wtf does w/e mean? water/eletrical? Am i totally missing something here?
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Old Jun 24, 2004 | 03:23 AM
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Why are you selling the car now?
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Old Jun 24, 2004 | 04:13 AM
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i think w/e stands for whatever
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Old Jun 24, 2004 | 05:32 AM
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Originally posted by GoRacer
Make sure there's no water in the distributor before you put the wires back.
Yeah make sure there is no water on the distributor. Might want to check those points and condensers while you are in there. [/sarcasm]
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Old Jun 24, 2004 | 09:06 AM
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Yeah, I hate it when my distributor starts acting up, I can never find it!
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Old Jun 24, 2004 | 09:09 AM
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lol.maybe because we have coil packs and not distributors.
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Old Jun 24, 2004 | 09:12 AM
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Originally posted by clayne
Why are you selling the car now?
Secret =P
A secret called a 93 FD 58k Original Miles Touring

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