Car has trouble starting after rain

[maverick]

Hey guys, hope everyone is doing well. I am having a problem with my explorer. It seems to be having a problem of starting after it rains. It will just kinda crank and crank and not start. Then if i give it some time to dry it will start. I looked under the hood and everything seems to be covered alright. Any ideas. thanks
-sean

 

[00XLS]

Obviously moisture is getting in somewhere it shouldn't be. I assume you have the SOHC motor? check all your connections and make sure their tight and aren't cracked at all.

 

[pax]

Time to exam all your ignition parts, wires, boots, coil packs for cracks and damages. Make sure you don't have any ignition wires rubbing against any hard objects causing the skin to rub off over time. Moisiture on the damaged iginition parts most likely cause of your problem.

 

[cjbarron5]

yep wires are probably the place to start as they are the most vulnerable mine did this untill i changed wires

 

[maverick]

alright thanks guys. I really know nothing about engines...can someone give me a place to start specifically for the wires? Do i have to remove any covers? Thanks for the advice
-sean

 

[cjbarron5]

nope no covers to remove but the factory routing is a p.i.t.a it took me about45 min to get mine out

 

[maverick]

so i need to actually remove wires? I'm going outside right now to look and c...but I may just need to wait until it rains again so I can actually look more closely and see if anything is wet. thanks everyone for the quick responses
-sean

 

[00XLS]

It won't be "wet" to the touch persay but if moisture is getting into a plug boot or the plug wire itself it will def cause probs. I had a cracked distributor cap once and everytime after a rain it would stall when coming to a stop, but the inside of the cap was dry.