Washed car... Now won't start!?!

[schwaggen]

'87 carrera. Runs great, drive it every day. Drove home, parked in driveway, grabbed a beer, gave it a quick scrub- then when I went to crank it to put it back in the garage, it turns over, but won't catch, not even a little- this has never happened before- I'm guessing water got so where it shouldn't... Help?

[zippy_gg]

Open the engine lid and dry all the water you can see with compressed air and dry rags, especially at the coil and spark plug leads...

[ckelly78z]

Water in the dist cap or coil.

[sugarwood]

It will probably start on its own within a day

[schwaggen]

Thanks for the replies. I left the deckled propped open all night, and it fired right up this AM. Water got in there somewhere, just couldn't figure out where. I'm guessing distributor cap?.

[Pazuzu]

Pull the cap and examine it. I was having terrible wet-start issues, turned out that there was a 1/4 inch hole blown in the side of the dizzy cap nearest to the engine block (so, hidden away). Obvious problems ensued

[bfunke]

Wipe inside of dizzy cap and spray w/ WD40.

[ZOA NOM]

What kind of wires do you have? There was a thread a hundred years ago about Clewett wires that were wicking water into the plug ends.