well me and a friend went mudding a bit tonight, nothing serious or deep. but i start going ahead and he stops because the last mud we went through his truck (93 pickup 22re) started bogging down and when he stopped it cut off., i thought maybe water in the distributor or intake and checked both but they were dry. it would crank over and try to start but it wouldnt. so we let it sit for awhile and then tried again and it started up but you had to keep giving it gas or it would cut off so finally we get it out of the woods and drive it a good ten miles and its working fine. anyone know whats this could have been?

 

oh yes!!! water in the rotor cap on the dizzy nest time get it out of the water and take it off and wipe it clean and go again happens all the time thats why i sealed mine!

 

i check the distributor and there was no water though.?

 

i check the distributor and there was no water though.?

 

sweet its a duble post!!!

anyways its not water its the moisture that will make it do this when i washed out my engine it did this when i went out riding it did this everytime it stalled and ran like popy i took off the cap took my shirt in there cleaned it out put it back together and whats know she fired right up like it never happened

 

you didnt get any water on or in the coil did you? that would be very bad!

 

yea sorry bout the double post im new to this site and got all confused but no there wasnt any water on the coil and alright thanks for the help ill have to try that next time

 

lol just so you know to buddy what kind of rig? motor? trany? and year would help out alot to you should put those in you rsig line like mine anda where you at just a state unless its WI then we gotta try this out together i wanna go wheeling! lol

and yeah it will work buddy if even a % of moisture gets in there it will arc out

 

alright haha and its not mine its a buddy, i got the 99 4runner

 

lots of ideas of what the problem could've been, but wasn't there to troubleshoot what changed between the time the problem occurred and when it was abated. so... I might lean towards a problem around the coil / ignitor, but don't know 'cause I can't see it.

 

only thing that changed was time, day/night, and bugs other than that we just sat there after i took off the distributor and intake and then just let it sit.

 

like I said... I can't see what it looked like under the hood when it started acting up, and can't see it now.
water probably got somewhere near where it shouldn't have been, but dried out.