no but from what i here it's not a great method...too easy to get moisture on plugs/wires/coil packs

 

DO NOT use a high pressure washer, you're just beggin for problems with that.

Like other people have said, cover or stay away from the air intake (after market or stock, doesn't matter). And definately cover the coil pack. Use some plastic and some rubber bands, works great.

 

ok, i'll stay away from that... now, what is a coil pack, the things located on top of the plugs? can ya tell i'm reeeal car engine savvy??

 

another suggestion after it is clean and dried I recomend using some armorall wipes on the rubber hoses not only does it look good but keeps it from dry rotting...

 

While you're lookin at the engine, on the front right area. Follow the plug wires from the engine to a small box lookin thing. All of the wires meet up there. That's the coil pack. It sends out the signal from there, down the wires to the spark plugs. You get that wet and try to run your engine, you probably won't even get it started.

Also, as long as your wires are connected firmly to the spark plugs, you don't need to worry about those getting interference from water.

 

ok, thanks for that tip!

The area circled in red (in the pic) appears to fit your description, would i be correct in saying so?

oh yeah... this is a picture of the engine before i started cleaning it... you can see how badly it needed a bath...

 

Sorry for the delayed reply, didn't realize you had written back.

The circled portion matces my description, but it's different than what I was expecting to see. I would cover that up and also your plug wires on top. The reason I say that is because it looks as though there is a type of connection for your plug wires on top of the head. You don't want to get water in those connectors.

 

No worries! Thanks again!

 

Ack! That is bad. Thank you for doing something about it...

 

yep, sure is! Its getting cleaner now... slowly... its a long process doing it by hand... i'm considering maybe spraying it down with some cleaner and pooring a cup of water over the area with cleaner on it... and then maybe do some by hand (i think this may have been suggested...) but it is looking better, i had almost forgotten the engine color was not brown!