AZGuy
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Tue Jan 04, 2005 7:48 am Post subject:
Re: Car won't start ? |
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On Mon, 03 Jan 2005 08:29:34 GMT, "Jason" <groupware@rocketmail.com>
wrote:
| Quote: | Hi all,
I have a 1994 Mithsubishi KS Verada/Diamante v6 SOHC.
Today I had the car washed (a red herring i think as there was now washing
in the engine bay), we drove about 2kms to the local shopping centre.
Turned the car off. We were there for about 10 minutes.
I went to restart the car and it failed to turnover - it did try intially
but then wouldn't even do that.
I have checked all the connections and plugs. All the electricals and
battery seem to be running OK, appears to be no spark or engine turnover.
Any ideas ?
Thanks
Jason
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I'm not sure I understood your post. Are you saying you washed inside
the engine compartment? If so, and if this car has a distributor and
distributor cap, what I used to see happen a lot was a warm/hot engine
would get washed, the engine would get started up but not run for very
long (your 2 km trip), then shut off, and then the car would not
start. What happens is that all the water that was on the engine
turns to steam and some of it gets inside the distributor where it
condenses back into water. Then the car no run. I've found a lot of
water inside some distributors from that. I'm pretty sure it wasn't
water that was just sprayed in or the car would never have started in
the first place, that's why I think it was condensed steam.
The fix is to take the distributor cap off, the rotor off, and dry
everything inside it.
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establishment of a standing army, the bane of liberty. . .
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Tim Kett
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Tue Jan 04, 2005 7:49 am Post subject:
Re: Car won't start ? |
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"Jason" <groupware@rocketmail.com> wrote in message
news:41d9026d@news.comindico.com.au...
| Quote: | Hi all,
I have a 1994 Mithsubishi KS Verada/Diamante v6 SOHC.
Today I had the car washed (a red herring i think as there was now washing
in the engine bay), we drove about 2kms to the local shopping centre.
Turned the car off. We were there for about 10 minutes.
I went to restart the car and it failed to turnover - it did try intially
but then wouldn't even do that.
I have checked all the connections and plugs. All the electricals and
battery seem to be running OK, appears to be no spark or engine turnover.
Any ideas ?
Thanks
Jason
Battery "seems" to be running ok ??? |
I would pull it and get it tested on a load tester. Autozone will test it. A
weak battery can run the radio, and even the headlights, but still not have
enough power to turn the motor over. |
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