Misfire/Rich

[91 Plus]

I am currently driving around in pretty much a blizzard. I havent had a chance to look at the car yet.Anyhow it has a a pretty bad misfire all of a sudden. You can smell a strong gas fire and it keeps backfiring on me.. Anone know of something off the top of there hea.

No check engine light is on.

 

[SolidState]

snow/water in the front plug wells. I bet if you pulled the front plugs they are nearly full.

This has plagued me allll winter in the 91. The Taylor TV8.2s don't seal very well. In fact, I actually have MUD in my front plug wells.

 

[TopGunnYFZ]

Blizzard is right LOL I just got in, good thing i parked the SHO at 4 and took my mommy's SUV. I was the only car on the road that could still get a speeding ticket. AWD FTW

I had my rear plug well get water in it, ran like shit for sure but didnt backfire or anything. It didnt smell like gas either. If your not getting any codes id go with the easy stuff first, as Solid mentioned

 

[91 Plus]

Yea i been delivering in the sho for 13 hrs. today. honda is in need of a fuel pump. With all these back roads and over a foot drifts is not going so swell.. Did i mention my car is lowered to... doh

 

[TimboSHO]

I just went through a big puddle the other day and filled up one of my spark plug wells (#3) with water. After blowing it all out, it still misfired, but was better. Today it was better still. I just put new wires on, but I'm still thinking the water might have frozen, or just compromised the integrity of my 2 month old AC delco wire..... grrr....

Ryan, you may be able to blow the snow (water now, i'm sure) out of your spark plug wells and everything will be dandy. Do you have aftermarket wires?

 

[91 Plus]

I was thinking this last week that I might of got bad gas. The day the car messed up I put $45 in the tank. So I started putting a few extra miles on the tank to get rid of the gas. I ended up with 130 miles on a FULL tank of gas. I put some fresh gas in and within 3 miles the car was 100 times better. Man I have never had bad gas before and dont want that to happen again.

 

[jthod]

130 miles on a FULL tank of gas?!?!?!

Something isn't right. I'd have to try hard to get under 290 miles.

 

[91 Plus]

130 miles on a FULL tank of gas?!?!?!

Something isn't right. I'd have to try hard to get under 290 miles.

Did you not read the post right above yours?

 

[AREA 91]

Bad gas is not good for your car or friends.

 

[jthod]

Did you not read the post right above yours?

yeah, but I read it wrong. oops