Best thing to get rid of water?

[daviebroon]

As simple as WD40?

I think ive got some moisture in my coil pack, as its led to incredibly lumpy running, popping in the centre section/running on 3 cyclinders etc. It pisssed down earlier nice and hard, and only done it then. Now emissions light is stuck on, and is running smooth for now.

Gonna strip it tomorrow and see if its swimming.

SO what the best thing to get rid of moisture in electrical systems?

Any advice?

 

[Sean6545]

Get some proper electrical contact cleaner.

 

[daviebroon]

ok cool... thanks.

I assume its ok to just spray liberally inside the contacts yeah? (sorry if thats dumb as fuk to ask)

 

[aliengravy]

you can get a special spray (we've got some for our boat engine) in marine shops, thats for electronics and drives out water, it is an insulator so will notshort everything out, whereas wd40 will short everything out, especially with somthing like a coil pack!!

 

[daviebroon]

brilliant cheers, i'll try halfrauds or a motor factors this arvo

You just spray loads on and reconnect?

 

[aliengravy]

Yup just spray it in and it should drive the moisture out, our spare boat engine fot wet, and my grandad sprayed wd40 on it, and it had the same effect as being wet, thats when we learnt about this special spray!!

 

[daviebroon]

ah quality... cheers mate.

I would have just used WD40 as it says on the bloody til 'drives out moisture'.... lying scumbags

 

[mini-valver]

Even better wold be to strip it down and smear Vaseline over the contacts!

 

[daviebroon]

^ the good guys at birchdown done this for me last time i was in for the same reason.

However it lasted a couple of days before it went back to the same situation. I'll try some sort of super moisture repellant and if that doesnt work, i'll strip it down like you said and clean it al out properly before i actually knacker it.

 

[type_rdriver]

Buy a new coilpack, they are about £40

 

[daviebroon]

^^ it IS new lol

Pretty sure i got charged more than £40 though

 

[daviebroon]

ok bought some Halford Electrical contact cleaner... seems to have done the job nicely.

BTW... HOW BAD a design are the coil pack contacts? The leads only bloody sit in them