Dried out my distributor still no crank...xj

Rwentz

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I need help, I went on a wheeling trip last Thursday and my jeep cut off in a puddle.
It's happened before my first thought distributor, I took a dry rag to it, really won't to much moisture in it but gave it about 3 hours and it started. But I couldn't make it home, I made it about 10 miles and stopped at a light it was idling fine so I figured the water had run out, well the light turned green and soons I hit the gas well it sputtered and cut off.
Now it won't start at all, I've tried the wd-40 trick, no go, tried wd-40 in the alternator, no go. I don't know what to do or check... I've gone through all the intake components wiped them down and still nothing.
Can someone tell me what it is?

I know it's ignition, because the motors flooding or smells like it every time I try to start it.
Would starting fluid work with no spark?
 
Take out each spark plug, one by one, and turn the motor over for just a second or two. Clean off the spark plug and put it back in. I had this happen last summer and had to get towed home. I thought it was the distributor as well. Turns out I had sucked up enough water to get some in a few of my cylinders, but not enough to cause it to hydro lock. I pulled each spark plug and turned over the motor for just a second. It spit out water, but ran fine after I did it to all 6 cylinders.

Good luck.
 
sounds like cps possibly
 
That didn't work, and it's not cps I replaced that with a warranty one yesterday.
This think has me pissed at this point, I'm suppose to be in Wilmington tomorrow at 1 and my gf has the other car already down there...
 
I did sorta, I don't have a multimeter no more, so all I really did was clean it off with carb cleaner.
But I tried starting fluid about an hour ago and nothing happened, so I'm thinking its still something with the distributor or coil. I really have no clue. I've tried everything I know today..
 
Do you have fuel pressure and injector pulse? Do you have spark?

Do this to diagnose the ignition:
Unplug the 2 wire connector at the coil. Insert a paper clip (jumper wire) into the unplugged connector. Attach test light clip to the positive battery terminal. With the pointy end of the test light, probe the paper clip (jumper wire) while you are cranking the engine over. Observe if it flashes or not.
If it flashes- the PCM and crank sensor are good (coil is being grounded) and you have power present. This means the coil is no good
If it does not flash- either the ground side of the circuit is no good (crank sensor signal to pcm or pcm itself) or the ASD voltage is not present.
 
Not to try to high-Jack this post but im trying this also. I have one plug with 3 wires and 1 plug with one yellow wire the plug with the yellow wire is a two wire plug but just has a rubber plug in it from factory it looks like. (1990 XJ) how do I check that?
 
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