Rough Idle (30sec)
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Rough Idle (30sec)
It has been raining here in mass for the past week, i drove my 92 explorer all last weekend but it has been sitting since this past tuesday. I started it up today to run to the store and it was idleing rough. I let it warm up for a few min and after about 30sec to a min it ran fine and drove fine. It almost sounded like one of the spark plugs was miss firing my first thought was something got wet and once the engine warmed up a bit the water dried up. This has never happend before but yet we are recieving record rain fall here i think we recieved about 10 inchs this past week. Also my speakers are not working i have an after market head unit and 2 10 inch subs, the only aspect that works is the head unit and the subs i get no mid range sound at all, could something of gotten wet or a fuse what and where should i check, both situations are very weird, they have never happened before any suggestions?
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Regarding the engine idle problem, sounds like it could be an ingition wire. Make sure they are all properly seated. Depending on how old they are, you might consider replacing them. No idea on the speaker problem.
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Engine performance and stereo operation should be completely independent once you get past making sure the battery is still in the car and connected.
Nope- Explorers with 4.0's don't have distributors. I would just about 100% rule out a water issue due to rain simply because everytine I wash my 93, I hose down the engine compartment too. With no distributor, no reason for it not to start back up.
I second the ignition wire, possibly fouling plug too. Could be you've got oil leaking past some valve seals when it sits and the engine has to burn through that and the O2's clear out before you get back into closed loop EFI control.
Nope- Explorers with 4.0's don't have distributors. I would just about 100% rule out a water issue due to rain simply because everytine I wash my 93, I hose down the engine compartment too. With no distributor, no reason for it not to start back up.
I second the ignition wire, possibly fouling plug too. Could be you've got oil leaking past some valve seals when it sits and the engine has to burn through that and the O2's clear out before you get back into closed loop EFI control.
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Thanks for the suggestions, i will check them out as for the speakers i found it was a blown fuse, problem is the fuse keeps blowing so now i have to find out what is shorten out the amp if it is not the amp itself
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