ok...This is not my week.

[Nater]

After a stressful week at work, I decided to try to find the darn oil leak....So I get my pressure washer out and my Simple Green....Now mind you, I have washed the motor on the stang numerous times in the same method I did the truck....Well, got it clean, and tightened down the bolts on the valve cover, like someone suggested.....Took it for a drive to see the wife at work (about 10 miles or so) just to see if I really did fix the oil leak....Well about 8 miles in I came to a stop light and when it turned green, the truck had absolute no power at all...I could still accelerate, but it was noticeably low on power...felt almost like the motor was flooding out, so I backed off the gas and hear a popping sound (backfire) coming from under the hood.....not good....I have a feeling one of the connectors got wet maybe...but no codes and now I have no idea where to begin to look...

 

[Boggin]

maybe you got too close to the distributor cap with the water. i know on a old carbd vehicle when mine would backfire through the carb it meant the timing was ****ed up, so you probably did get the distributor wet

 

[Nater]

I am letting it sit overnight...(9:30 pm here) Boggin-it uses the coil packs and is distributor-less.

 

[Harris]

I had an F-250 V-10 gas burner with a coil pack on each spark plug, and a good wash ruined 2 of then (at $50 each), however, I wash my '94 Ranger all the time. The difference is I try to use a bucket and brush instead of high-pressure water.
Based on what you said, you have lost a coil pack. That truck should have 2. For the most part they are sealed up pretty good, so hopefully it is a short and not a destroyed ignition coil. I wish you had cranked it and let it get to and dry out at operating temp before driving it, but it seems like using it on the road would have done the same thing.

 

[trail B2]

Fixing the car is good for stress it feels like you have control over something.Probably work fine when you let it dry out.

 

[Nater]

That is what I am thinking too...I will go down to the garage in about an hour or so, and see...

 

[Nater]

Ok, so went down to the garage...started it up...let it run for a bit, then took it on a test drive....seems like everything is ok now....

 

[Boggin]

yeah, you just got some shit wet that was supposed to be dry

 

[myold96]

probably the plug wires next time spray with wd-40 it will wick the moisture out thus wd=water dry, 40 =40th try to get it right.