[DML] Re: Engine misfiring

["Harold McElraft" <hmcelraft@xxxxxxx>]

I'm guessing your car is a 5 speed? The reason I suggest that is, in 
heavy rain, water is blown up into the engine compartment and on the 
crossover pipe which causes some steam too. It can all come straight 
up at the distributor from the back. I have had this happen numerous 
times in heavy rain. The way I stopped it was to smear some silicone 
sealer across the back edge of the distributor cap where it meets 
the distributor - just the back side. No problem after that.

I did not have the same problem with my automatic - I believe it is 
because the transmission takes up so much more room the effects in 
rain are different. I still put some silicone on the other day 
during the tune-up I was doing.

Harold McElraft - 3354



--- In dmcnews@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "TalksToGod" <5n-@xxxx> wrote:
> It seems whenever it is raining hard, my engine starts to misfire 
and
> lack power. It will misfire at idle, and then move to misfiring 
only
> upon hard acceleration. This morning it was fine, but on my way 
home
> after work I had to accelerate hard and fast to pass someone who 
was
> going 30 and decided to go 60 while I was passing-After a few 
miles or
> so I noticed the missing. I'm not sure if it was because of the 
rain,
> or perhaps I damaged something? I have noticed several times that 
the
> engine misses on bad rainy days. I made sure all the spark wires 
were
> still in place and checked for loose wires here and there. Nothing
> unusual was found... Any suggestions would be great. Thanks guys -
Dan
> B. VIN#5003




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