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Old 06-24-04, 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?
Old 06-24-04, 12:59 AM
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Old 06-24-04, 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.
Old 06-24-04, 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.
Old 06-24-04, 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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Why are you selling the car now?
Old 06-24-04, 04:13 AM
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i think w/e stands for whatever
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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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Yeah, I hate it when my distributor starts acting up, I can never find it!
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lol.maybe because we have coil packs and not distributors.
Old 06-24-04, 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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