Water in OPTI?
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Water in OPTI? I had to drive my car home the other day during a torrential downpour (don't normally drive it in the rain) Anyways, now it is intermittently missing. I guess its a possibility that I got some water in there. Is there any way to fix this with out pulling the w/p and what not? Can you just put maybe some air to the vent line? It is an MSD cap and rotor on a A/C Delco opti. I also changed the plugs the same day it rained. I checked all the wires thinking that maybe it was one of those. So I guess I will change the wires today because I noticed one had a small rub in it. But if that doesn't fix it, will driving it slowly evaporate the moisture in the opti?
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I had to drive my car home the other day during a torrential downpour (don't normally drive it in the rain) Anyways, now it is intermittently missing. I guess its a possibility that I got some water in there. Is there any way to fix this with out pulling the w/p and what not? Can you just put maybe some air to the vent line? It is an MSD cap and rotor on a A/C Delco opti. I also changed the plugs the same day it rained. I checked all the wires thinking that maybe it was one of those. So I guess I will change the wires today because I noticed one had a small rub in it. But if that doesn't fix it, will driving it slowly evaporate the moisture in the opti?
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Well I already checked the wires. They are fully seated. I did have one that had a nick in it from the idler pulley, but I didn't appear to go through. I don't recall it doing it when I drove it after the plug change. It seemed to do it after it rained and I hit a large puddle of water. I guess there is nothing to do to speed up the drying process? I went a drove it about 15 miles yesterday, but it didn't help. Then on my 3 mile drive to work it did fine up until the last 1/2 mile and started missing again. PITA opti POS. 
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Well I already checked the wires. They are fully seated. I did have one that had a nick in it from the idler pulley, but I didn't appear to go through. I don't recall it doing it when I drove it after the plug change. It seemed to do it after it rained and I hit a large puddle of water. I guess there is nothing to do to speed up the drying process? I went a drove it about 15 miles yesterday, but it didn't help. Then on my 3 mile drive to work it did fine up until the last 1/2 mile and started missing again. PITA opti POS.
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Other than that, it's likely your opti is toast.
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I've been through puddles where the water was level with the opti (scuba-opti) and the car never showed me a sign of hesitation.
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Hm, so I guess if it doesn't clear up in a day or 2 then I will pull the ******* w/p off and all that other garbage in the way, and dry it out and silicone the **** out of it. You think it will dry out relatively quickly?
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If it doesn't clear up in a couple of days, then it might be your opti is bad, or it might mean that your problem is elsewhere. But if you do go through all of the trouble to remove the water pump and balancer, might as well replace the opti if it's got a lot of miles rather than try to fix it up.
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If it doesn't clear up in a couple of days, then it might be your opti is bad, or it might mean that your problem is elsewhere. But if you do go through all of the trouble to remove the water pump and balancer, might as well replace the opti if it's got a lot of miles rather than try to fix it up.
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Oh, well hopefully it dries out for you (if it is water in the opti that is the problem, don't fixate on one thing).
