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This morning had the engine pressure washed. Now sometimes it shudders at a stop and stumbles before it gets going. Then other times it will run fine. Any ideas? Thanks, John
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please say you covered up stuff before you did it cuz if you didnt it could be really bad
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Water on your plugs. You should've covered them plus anything that looks electrical. Try taking out the plug wires and drying them with a hair dryer.
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I'm with Pablo.... Probably just wet SP wires arcing away. You may be able to see the sparks flying around if you observe the wires by the coil pack in the dark. (Pull the hood light  )
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Originally posted by tw0wheelin:
(Pull the hood light )
That's only for you '95 owners. The rest of us got jipped by the usual decontenting.
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wet parts. Maybe water on the coil pack. If you let it dry out it should go away.
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I did that one time. It wasn't a pressure wash, just a back yard garden hose wash. Water got around the plugs, and the plugs shorted and cracked.
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Originally posted by hetfield:
Originally posted by tw0wheelin:
(Pull the hood light )
That's only for you '95 owners. The rest of us got jipped by the usual decontenting.
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I chased down a BIG problem on my '95 GL which ended up being the coilpack shorting out.
The reason this relative to your problem in that the coilpack shorted out due to the upper radiator house breaking and spewing coolant all over then engine.
Hopefully your engine wasn't running when you pressure washed it because the fact that mine was running may be why it was as catastrophic to the coilpack as it was.
Hopefully there wasn't enough water remaining to short yours.
and yes... my plugs were cracking, too.
The new coilpack remidied that.
So... if yours doesn't run correctly after it has had enough to dry out then I'd look at the coilpack AND the plugs which will probebly crack because of the coilpack failing.
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Good advice. Thanks man, John
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