March 23, 200422 yr Can you answer this? Sunday I changed spark plugs on a 97 2.2 when I finished I started the engine and it run great then I turned it off. About six hours later I drove it and within one half mile it started missing and Ck. engine light started flashing. No wire had been damaged, no plug was bad, gap was fine and no vacum line had been knocked off and no wires were crossed. But the problem (when I found it)was related to the plug change what was it?
March 23, 200422 yr Author Good try but no. (sorry i should have mention that the wires had not came off)
March 23, 200422 yr Author Incorrect gap no! Remember I said I started it and it ran fine. (Hint!) the engine warming up had something to do with it.
March 23, 200422 yr The little rubber bung in the Socket stuck to the plug,held enough to warm it up but once hot it expanded and popped the lead off? Clutching at straws here are'nt I.
March 23, 200422 yr Author Brett-j No! did not use wrong plugs or break one, did not even take any out to fix problem. I will post answer tomorrow if no ones gets it.
March 23, 200422 yr Author Another hint, nothing was wrong or broken. plugs were right ones wires were good, nothing came off.
March 23, 200422 yr from my experience in my ea82: 1. pre-existing conditon as you desscribed 2. plug wires in WRONG order 3. CHAMPION
March 23, 200422 yr Please tell us today,Im dying here I can only think maybe you hit an injector plug or something,maybe left the spanner on the engine and it earthed out? I need closure on this
March 23, 200422 yr Well lets see.... Plugs were good, Wires were in order, Wires were good, Nothing came off, Nothing was jiggled loose, Nothing was damaged, Nothing was broken, Nothing was wrong! -Brian
March 23, 200422 yr Author But God has chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise is the closest thing to right yet. I was not wise enough to figure this out I stumpped on it by accident.
March 23, 200422 yr Author Brian that was in reply to something above. Brett your answer is in your e- mail.
March 23, 200422 yr Author Brian I wish my Subaru mail wagon was raised about half as much as yours, is the ride rough when you raised it.
March 23, 200422 yr Nope, if anything it got smoother. The car floats over bumps, even rides smoother than my '92 Turbo Legacy. -Brian
March 23, 200422 yr You left a beer can on the coil pack and crushed it when you closed the hood. When it warmed up, it expanded and caused arcing across the pack.
March 23, 200422 yr Author Here is the Answer On the side where the windshield washer tank is I chg. the front plug. I left the wire off so not to damage it while removing the back plug. When I took washer tank off I removed the two elc. plugs and one of the water lines. I then laid it on top of engine so the water would not run out, however I must have bumped it because later I seen water dripping out so I tilted it so it would not run out. However some of the water had already run down in the plug hole. When I started it the water did not hurt anything it was down around the metal part of plug, after running it around half of mile it heated up and either the steam or rising level of water due to the heating caused it to get plug wire wet. I thought I had damaged a plug wire when it started missing and was in the process of checking them with inline plug checker when I noticed the end of plug wire was wet when I pulled it off. So I took and air hose and blew the water out and then blew the end of wire dry, then put it back on and it run fine. Watch the washer tank when you take it off.
March 23, 200422 yr Clark's answer is the closest, esp. if one allows for some beer to be left in the can, although that would be far-fetched.
March 23, 200422 yr Originally posted by avk Clark's answer is the closest, esp. if one allows for some beer to be left in the can, although that would be far-fetched. but it COULD happen:-p
March 23, 200422 yr If a plug wire was wet with oil instead of water or washer fluid, would it cause the same condition experienced by tcspeer? I've always tought oil was non conductive, but I may have a reason to doubt that now. Anybody know?
March 23, 200422 yr Author Tiny Clark I agree you win. Frag I dont know about that oil, maybe it would catch fire.
March 24, 200422 yr Originally posted by tcspeer But God has chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise is the closest thing to right yet. I was not wise enough to figure this out I stumpped on it by accident. I knew it had to be something simple KISS:clap:
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