re: need help on 93 100S

["Anthony K.B. Chan" <chan@seattleu.edu>]

Unfortunately the 92' and newer 100 has direct ignition, one coil per 
cylinder i.e. no distributor at all.

Anthony Chan, First Hill, Seattle, WA, USA.
chan@seattleu.edu
92' 100 V6 Tornado Red.

On Mon, 12 Aug 1996 SOP8920@Siena.edu wrote:

> Date: Mon, 12 Aug 1996 1:28:14 -0400 (EDT)
> From: SOP8920@Siena.edu
> To: quattro@coimbra.ans.net
> Subject: re: need help on 93 100S
> 
> Seung writes:
> >HELP! My house guest washed my car today. As I was mowing the lawn I 
> >spotted him hosing water into the exhaust pipe, I was like, "What are you 
> >doing?!" 
> 
> must be *really* boring in Md if your guests have nothing else to do but wash
> your car! :)
> 
> > And when I finished I saw him hosing down the engine. 
> 
> >Tonight as I was driving the car around town, I noticed the car idles 
> >rougher and is really really hesistant! Did he screw up my car? Would 
> >hosing down the engine and the exhaust do that to a car? She ran so 
> >smoothly and quietly until this happened! What to do? Do I have to kill 
> >this guy or what?
> 
> Sounds like you ended up with water in your distributor cap maybe. Try opening
> up the cap and drying everything off. Since a few companies sell de-greasing
> chemicals which are designed to be sprayed onto your engine and then hosed off,
> I don't think that hosing down a motor would damage it. I de-greased my Toyota
> Mr2's engine a few years back, and as per directions, I wrapped up the
> distributor cap with plastic and tried to avoid electrics with the water spray. 
> After wards I had a rough-idle condition. This turned out to be a loose vacuum
> hose. 
>    BTW the loose vacuum hose diagnosis was courtesy of a mechanic who came into
> the place I was working towing a 968 in full racing regalia. I don't know what
> class or anything else about racing, but he found that loose hose in about 10
> secs. I spent hours pondering what the heck I had done wrong. :)
>                                -Osman Parvez
>                                 89 200q
>                                 Albany NY
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