my first misfire!!

[FadeToBlak121]

so, boys and girls, let me fill you in on what happened.
my misfire cherry has been popped.
an hour or 2 ago, i was washing my car. and i decided to wash my engine bay for the first time. bad idea i guess. ive washed under the hood of cars a ton of times, but never done it to mine. anywho, i sprayed it down barely, literally hardly any, and let it run for a few, then turned the car off to dry off the non moving parts. i started it up again and i could hear a slight sound under the hood. i looked and didnt see anything while it was running. so i got in the car to go to the gas station and while driving, it started shaking and stuff but evened out after a few minutes. got back and scanned my car to see if theres any new codes. (always spitting p0420) and sure enough, cylinder 2 misfire. great my first misfire. cleared the codes and went for a drive and it didnt seem as bad and the code hasnt come back, but i only drove for a few minutes. looked under the hood and (no idea if this matters) but i did notice this.

(chunk out of the wire)

long story short.
washed my car. now i have cyl 2 misfire? drove and seemed to go away and code hasnt come back yet.
why misfiring?

[FadeToBlak121]

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also. just like someone to look at that picture and tell me if they also see a mans face in the background? center just above the wires

creeeeeeepy

[Moses]

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Uhm and what wires are those? I just got off work and my brain isn't working properly. lol.

and YES! I see the face, at first I didn't notice it. but...haha.

[kristen]

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you could wait till the bay drys out some. sit it in the sun with the hood up so it gets nice and dry. could just be damp or wet.

i'm at work so i can't see ne pics. but i'll check when i get home

[Firebirdkid96]

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got back and scanned my car to see if theres any new codes. (always spitting p0420) and sure enough, cylinder 2 misfire. great my first misfire. cleared the codes and went for a drive and it didnt seem as bad and the code hasnt come back, but i only drove for a few minutes.

P0420 isn't a misfire code.

P0420 - Catalyst System Efficiency Below Threshold (Bank 1)

That's an emissions code.

I had a random misfire code for a long time. Do what kristen said, leave it open, let it dry, some water may have gotten into the plug wires, or something else that isn't sealed well... which wires are they? the picture is too dark for me to tell (i see the face too)

[FadeToBlak121]

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i know. i was saying i always have the p0420 code. but i scanned it and also had a p0302 i think it was. whatever cyl 2 misfire is. i had both codes.

[Firebirdkid96]

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oh. okay. wasn't sure about that. but yeah, let everything dry out, you might have a short in your ignition system

[FadeToBlak121]

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so i drove it awhile today and it ran okay. decided to scan it again just to make sure and now its throwing a crank position sensor code. p0305 or 06, i forget. no idea why this ones coming now.

anyone?

[kristen]

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that can go bad if it gets wet just like ne other sensor. they are a holes lol


you have david blaine in your engine bay!

[FadeToBlak121]

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hahaha david blaine.

so once it dries out, itll be fine. thats what i thought

[Firebirdkid96]

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yeah...suprised it didn't throw random misfire code...when i had one, it was the crank position sensor.

[FadeToBlak121]

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yup. drove it home and scanned it again and no codes were there.

i tihnk im safe for now