pjw73nh
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I found where the water is getting in on my cylinders 7 & 8. If you've been following some of my other posts, you'll know I've been shooting an intermittent miss. It appears to be a moving target too. Changes cylinders all the time. Very intermittent.
Anyway, it rained pretty heavily last night. As part of my troubleshooting regimen, I took each of the coils out today and cleaned them, blew out the spark plug wells with compressed air, and greased them with dielectric grease.
Number 8 was the first one I did. When I pulled it out it had a lot of water puddling on the coil itself. I traced the water ingress to one of the plastic windshield cowl fasteners. It was dripping wet. Actually 2 or 3 of them leaked, but only one of them was the culprit for the water on cyll 7 & 8.
See my pix here.
https://picasaweb.google.com/103956146819641847893/WaterOnCylinder8?authuser=0&authkey=Gv1sRgCNLR9vS4yYniqQE&feat=directlink
Use the magnifying glass to zoom if needed.
Best.
P.../NH
Anyway, it rained pretty heavily last night. As part of my troubleshooting regimen, I took each of the coils out today and cleaned them, blew out the spark plug wells with compressed air, and greased them with dielectric grease.
Number 8 was the first one I did. When I pulled it out it had a lot of water puddling on the coil itself. I traced the water ingress to one of the plastic windshield cowl fasteners. It was dripping wet. Actually 2 or 3 of them leaked, but only one of them was the culprit for the water on cyll 7 & 8.
See my pix here.
https://picasaweb.google.com/103956146819641847893/WaterOnCylinder8?authuser=0&authkey=Gv1sRgCNLR9vS4yYniqQE&feat=directlink
Use the magnifying glass to zoom if needed.
Best.
P.../NH