Silverado Brethern

i am having serious problems with my 97 silverado, such as it will not fire. i took it thru a mudhole today and then drove it out the road and it was missin really bad so i drove home to wash it off and it would not fire. the fan and belt and all turn but the engine wont fire. i changed all the plugs and wires and changed the oil and tried jumping it but still no luck. i am begining to think water got in the engine and something could be seriously wrong. i sprayed down the engine bay and cleaned the intake box and arm so rite now im gonna let it sit until tomorrow and hope it 'dries' out and will fire, however i doubt this will happen. any advice or input would be very appreciated. thank you

mjgjr72

does it have a distributor cap, did you take it off and dry out the inside. look for cracks while your at it, may want to replace cap and rotor while its off.

Jeremy-WI

By the time you read this it will probably be running. Have you checked for spark on the coil wire? If no spark on the coil wire, you probably soaked something involving your crankshaft position sensor and possibly have blown a fuse.

Silverado Brethern

i left it sit for about 36 hours and just tried it again and still the same results...also the hood will not open for some damn reason so im in a real predicament. i called some ppl and was told to look into the oil pump, fuses, intake, tranny, and all sorts of things but im begging to think that im gonna need at least several new internal components, if not a whole new engine. my uncle is gonna get a hold of a diagnostic thinger for me and see what it tells us.

Silverado Brethern

ok got the hood to open and put the intake back together and tried starting it again and still nothing. i had somebody tell me to take out all the spark plugs and put a lil oil in them and then try to start it w/o the plugs in so that it would blow the water out, also other people have told me not to try startin it cuz it will just get damaged more.

Pewter'01SS

If water had gotten into your engine, You would have definitly noticed it when you changed your oil. It sound like an electrical prob. to me. Possibly check the wires going to your fuel pump, or make sure you can hear the fuel pump kick on when you turn the key. Put in a set of plugs WITHOUT oil on them.

Galaxi-99

I liked the post about the cap and rotor being wet that would be my first place to look ,the cap is a bad place to have water.

broughy84

I don't think they have a distributor cap and rotor do they???? They have coil packs don't they?

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1988 Chevrolet Silverado -- 156,000 miles
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Silverado Brethern

i dunno if it has a cap and rotor or not but today i took all the plugs out and turned it over and no water came out so i put the plugs back in and took all the wires off and re-attached them and the truck fired rite up. do i dunno if it was somthing that got wet or maybe when i changed the wires i had them on in the wrong order. dunno but it runs great now, thanks for the advice!