chiefcherokee

How can I check this out? I don't know much about jeeps/ cars in general.

COSXJFAN

You can pull the cap off and check in it. It's proll dry by now though. Take the cap off and put a light bead of marine grease around the base of the cap where it seats against the distributor. Also, put a little at each end of each plug wire. You can buy "electric" grease, but I have found that they both keep water out, just my $.02 worth. HTH!!

VenomHP

I have always used dielectric grease on both ends of the spark plug wire (on the cap and the plug itself) and made sure the cap had a good seal on the distributor

the gimp

did u look to see if you were low on fuel

chiefcherokee

And how can I make this never happen again?

I mean, like how can I fix this problem with the distributor bap, since that's what ya'll think it is?

c-loss

do what cos said put a light bead of marine grease around the bottom. just dont do what a kid in my high school did an coat the bottom of it in RTV gasket maker. ( i will say it was a good laugh in shop class)

chiefcherokee

Hahaha.

I'm sorry, on my last post I meant to say I don't know how to get to it. Which I don't, so how can I?

SCjeep

pop your hood where all your spark plug wires lead to. there should be three skrews do not take off the wires from the cap cause you do not know you fire order. and thats yours cap then just put grease down

muddeprived

You should be laughing at me too. I used RTV

BlueXJ

Mudd you should check to see if you can get that cap loose. RTV sets up it makes a pretty strong gasket. That is why COS suggested grease instead of RTV.

muddeprived

That's what i feared when i first did it and my buddy told me to try to take his off since he did it too. I unscrewed the two screws and popped it off. You can't lift it straight up but have to tilt it and it rips off. The key to using it is to put the rtv on the bottom of the cap, a good sized 1/8" bead and let it semi-dry before you install it. Might be a little bit more difficult to remove but it's not removed that often enough to be a hassle. Plus it keeps the water out so there shouldn't be any issue with it for a couple years. I used to have to pop that thing off every time i did deep water crossing in the tj, or just minor splashes. Since i used rtv on it, it has been trouble free. You gotta plug or re-route the breather hole on top of the dist. cap. Water gets in there.

GrantMLS

I put a little shield around my distributor - i would get the same thing from splash up - also built up a shield up front to keep to much water from hitting the serpentine belt keeping it from hydro planning...

xj jeepman

that what happend to mine it would not start after it rained and then i changed all the plugs and it worhed finr along with the cap

BlueXJ

Please display the pictures of your sheild. I have thought about making one but had never seen it done.

GrantMLS

ill dig up a pic - i actually stole the setup from a 1990 dodge shadow - the dist. is on is in the front of the car and they have a shield to protect it from getting water through the front cowl directly on to it..