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jcham
Dodge Dakota
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1/22/2004
16:18:59
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 Subject: My Dak Doesn't Like Water
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I have a 97 2WD Dakota. Anytime I get in some mud or water my truck gets wet and falls on its face. I guess it's the distributor cap. But it is very irritating all my buddies are wheelin' around me while I dry out. I don't hit the water hard or go through anything with a lot of speed, so I don't know why it happens so often. Do you have any suggestions as to why this happens and what can I do to help keep the water out of the engine bay. Thanks in advance.
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Dakota_daze
Dodge Dakota
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1/23/2004
11:19:33
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"Anytime I get in some mud or water my truck gets wet and falls on its face."
A better description would help on the diagnosing. If you mean it immediately shuts the engine off, then I would be looking for a bare wire down around the starter.
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jcham
Dodge Dakota
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1/23/2004
18:03:05
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I have checked for any exposed wires, and nothing. The engine has immediately shut down on a couple of occasions, but for the most part it starts to sputter, then shuts down and after 10 minutes of sitting and some turning over it starts back up. Everyone tells me it is just my distributor cap getting wet, but I don't know why this happens so frequently to me. I have a body lift with the lips so my engine isn't exposed. One of my buddies even has a dakota without the lips and doesn't have the problems I do. It is nothing major, just annoying. I was just hoping to find a little help here.
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94dakota
Dodge Dakota
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1/28/2004
20:56:32
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after it dies, spray some WD-40 under the dristibutor cap. it's WD for water displacement, and then if it cranks right up, you can tell for sure it's your distributer, and maybe you can fab some cheap contraption up to cover it.
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BIGTYMER
Dodge Dakota
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1/29/2004
10:03:52
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Thats interesting. I have no inner fenders, just the glassworks outers and no problems. I've been through holes well over the hood and no problem.
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jcham
Dodge Dakota
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1/30/2004
13:41:37
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Here's something that really has me baffled. I live in Illinois and we got our first snow/ice storm a couple of days ago. I went to start my truck and it wouldn't, just kept turning over, but wouldn't start. So the next morning, after a night of snowfall, it started first try. Now that just makes no sense. If something was getting wet or there were exposed elements, the snow wouldn't have helped my problem. BTW I put a heat lamp on the distributor for about five minutes and did the WD 40 trick, my truck started up. However I am still baffled about the truck not starting one morning, then after a night of snowfall starting right up.
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