[85STR8AXLE]

While wheelin in Sedona desert over the weekend I was coming down a steep stairstep. It was pouring outside in the middle of a thunderstorm. As i crawled down the steep grade it just shut off without warning and would not restart. I coasted down to level ground to wait it out thinking I flooded the thing trying to get it started as I smelled fuel. I popped the intake off to let it breath a waited an hour before restarting. It wanted to start but just coughed out white smoke from the tail pipe on each attempt. 2 more hours go buy and finally she starts but is missing badly and will not exceed 2500 RPM. I limped the 10 miles back to the HWY where it started running just fine????????????

Safe to say this was water intrusion somewhere? If so where would I check for something like that? The distributor has a sleeve and everything seemed dry under the hood.

[KLF]

Carb'd or EFI?

[2ndGenToyotaFan]

Sounds carbed.... and I'd say you got water in the distributor cap maybe.... It doesn't take much in there to kill it.

[85STR8AXLE]

EFI... But yeah I was thinking water in the cap too. Just suprising bacause it was super dry as far as I could tell in that area.

[victorbirdseye]

I have heard that WD 40 in the distrubuter is a a quick feild fix for this, but never tried it myself.

[Jukelemon]

Was this the first time you ever went down that "steep" grade?

I am going to guess you sent some sludge into your fuel line from the bottom of your gas tank.

I dont think it has anything to do with the rain/water.

Going out on a limb here ( :

[toy4xfun]

may be not sludge but somthing in the tank. the pickup is real close to the bottom of the tank. so close when i bought my new fuel pump holder the tank was dented and the new holder would not go in the tank i had to get the dent out first.