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Omega Help Area => Omega General Help => Topic started by: googoo73 on 13 March 2007, 22:35:53

Title: jet washed the engine oops !!!
Post by: googoo73 on 13 March 2007, 22:35:53

as above now it misfires and runs like a bag of cr"£

wheres the coil and distributer etc so i can dry them off  :-?

engines nice and clean though  ;D

Title: Re: jet washed the engine oops !!!
Post by: razzo on 13 March 2007, 22:54:18

AFAIK the distributer is next to the double overhead underhang sorry mate couldnt resist that one shite day at work an all that :'(

Title: Re: jet washed the engine oops !!!
Post by: sounds2k on 13 March 2007, 23:14:35

no distributor. The DIS pack is helpfully located on the back of the block on the nearside!! (location 'A' on the pic)

(http://img359.imageshack.us/img359/8870/backofv6enginepv0.jpg)

Title: Re: jet washed the engine oops !!!
Post by: razzo on 13 March 2007, 23:19:33

sorry guys only joking :-[

Title: Re: jet washed the engine oops !!!
Post by: sounds2k on 13 March 2007, 23:33:51

... is that next to the inverting convertor vent valve?  ;)

Title: Re: jet washed the engine oops !!!
Post by: TheBoy on 14 March 2007, 19:48:29

And the lesson learned is never to jet wash engines.... ;)

Title: Re: jet washed the engine oops !!!
Post by: STMO123 on 14 March 2007, 19:51:16

How did you get a jet up your street?

Title: Re: jet washed the engine oops !!!
Post by: googoo73 on 14 March 2007, 20:19:14

got the water out of the plug holes and it ran fine for 10 minutes


then the mo!"£r f!"£ing cat went .spitting out hot ceramic shards everywhere

 :'(

Title: Re: jet washed the engine oops !!!
Post by: Kevin Wood on 14 March 2007, 22:24:35

Oh, no! Second lesson, unfortunately. If a cat equipped car misfires stop the engine.

Kevin

Title: Re: jet washed the engine oops !!!
Post by: Danny on 14 March 2007, 22:44:56

Quote

... is that next to the inverting convertor vent valve?  ;)

My dad had one of those, he's got a pacemaker now  ;D