How to keep rain off my coils!

[ucfitkid]

BACKGROUND: I live in florida and we get our daily downpours. A month ago I started having misfires and after doing some research on this board people suggested that sometimes water gets in under the windshield wipers and drips on the coil. It was the 3/6 (front) coil that had gone bad. After replacing this coil everything was working fine.

PROBLEM: Now I am getting the same laggin symptoms as I had a month before. Another strange thing is when this happened last time as well as this time, no lights show up on my air/fuel ratio gauge. I am thinking that maybe this problem happened again since it has been raining a lot since. I replaced the same 3/6 coil and it seemed to help a little but not take the problem away (still lag and no lights on AF). I was thinking maybe the water got farther back this time and took out the second coil.

REQUEST: What are everones thoughts/experiences with this problem. What should I try next? Is there a way to "seal" this area so rain will not get in in the future.

As always any help would be appriciated

[terminaldegree]

I had one coil go down on me in dry weather. Then another one died a month later [both were the originals]. I've had no trouble at all in the last 9 months since, and even though it doesn't rain here much, when it does it's often a downpour.

I assume that you've already changed plugs and wires, right? After that, and assuming 3 new, good coils, I suppose the ICM [the thing the coils plug into] would be next. But first I would see about the water leak theory before throwing parts at it. Have you tried pouring water on the windshield w/ the hood up to see if anything leaks down? I suppose you could make a little shield for the coil area if you wanted to try that...

[shenanigans]

First off, you go to UCF too?

Read this..
http://www.camarov6.com/ubb/ultimate...539;p=1#000003

few v6 f-body guys here and several other f-body guys as well, we might be able to check the car out in person and give you a hand as well.


any SES lights going off? more then one cylinder misfireing. Sometimes when wires are old the coatings crack and will arc to various things under the block killing the spark to that cylinder.

If it specifically is arcing certain ones, then we can swap them with another one.

May not be related to your problem but always good to be checking out.

http://web.camaross.com/forums/showthread.php?t=78028