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My friend, did some work on the car; fixing some oil leaks on valve gasket and all.
He told me to put some degreaser on engine bay and let’s wash it.
Well afterwards, my goodness…. :S the car would barely run. I had the check engine light flash for about 2 mins and then it went away. It has gotten better as the days have passed but we are now in the 3rd day and it still stalls at times.
Like after a drive, i shut off the car to go in the store for 5 mins; comes back turn on the car and the idle is almost at the zero and car starts to stall big time. After like 2 mins of that it runs GREAT and with a lot of power, bec. it’s in great condition.
Thing is, that whole stalling thing is very annoying and at times dangerous when you turn in a road and your car stalls.
The car already has new spark plugs, and all…
What could have happened when he washed the engine bay?
He covered alternator, starter and stuff… ?Any help is appreciated!!!
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When you start up your car and its running crappy, check the tail pipe. If your spiting out a mass amount of water/coolant, or producing alot of smoke. Might have a coolant leak in one of your cylinders.
It is a very bad idea to use water any where near the engine, and if you sprayed water right at the engine, thats just bad. Eric, to find problems sometimes uses soapy water to check for vac leaks, that just makes me go crazy. Engine bays, should be ‘water’ proof to some degree, and allow to spray water around some parts, but if you ask me, the risk is too great because you can damage parts, and have no idea what you damage. My rule, is to spray nothing [but maybe carb cleaner for vac leaks] no matter what at the engine bay. It would of been best to use a rag with cleaner on rag, to remove dirt & oil.
Advice? Check for stored engine codes in the computer. And take a very look look around all the parts in the engine bay, look for water. And use compressed air to help remove any water, or a rag. Other then that, you can leave your hood open for a day or two to dry out. Just make sure no rain/snow/lawn water/etc can make it into the engine bay while it is drying out.
Have a look around for any loose connections especially where your mate covered things up while degreasing the motor. And if you do want to clean your engine bay just have the motor running while you are clean the gunk off and keep it running to everything is dry.
Also check that your air filter isn’t wet.
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