engine strugling under load

[tombutt]

i degreased my engine bay on tuesday and washed it off with the hose and today i started my car it started fine and was rnning ok untill it came up to temp and i was drving then it started struggling when i put my foot down to go up hill pulling out of a intersection and it felt like it was miss firing. my car is a 1997 vitara v6


what may be the course of this?


thanks in advance

[Gwagensteve]

You've got something wet. Probably water around the plugs or something. Might clear as it dries, otherwise spray some WD40 around the spark plug/leads/coilpacks.

Steve.

[tombutt]

would u say its best to start the car and let it idle to dry it out or jsut let it sit and do it the slow way?

[RockHopper]

If you've got a compressor, just blow some compressed air around the sparkplug leads to dry. If your car has a dizzy, remove the distributor cap and dry the inside of the cap and distributor with compressed air. It's fine to use WD40, but don't go overboard with it. In my old roadservice days I've seen more engines not start from being drenched in WD40 than from the water they were trying to disperse in the first place.