As noted, constant rain, or even a 1 inch deep puddle, (if big enough) will splash water somewhere that is causing the engine to begin sputtering. It generally doesn't affect the system until I stop for a light or something, but then as I try to accelerate from a stop, it sputters, almost dies, and I can only limp the car along for a little while until the situation seems to slowly clear itself.
Have you ever replaced the plug wires, or distributor cap?
SOURCE: engine lights flashes 50 times
if the check engine flash its to tell you the engine is misfiring and if you continue driving you gonna dammaged the catalytic convertor the sputters is our tune up high tension wire distributor cap rotor and spark plug do that and our problem is solve thank you for using fixya pierre
SOURCE: 2000 Ford Focus Sputtering / Speedometer Needle Jumping
It could be a spark plug, plug wire, or a coil. Sometimes thay break down intermittently. If it needs a tuneup, that would be the first thing to do.
SOURCE: 1997 Ford Escort dies/sputters during acceleration...
How many miles on car? It could be fuel pump and or alernator or both.
SOURCE: 1994 Ford Escort dies at stops
I had the same problem a year ago. I problem was that the intake manifold gasket had a small hole and it was causing the computer to constantly change the air to fuel ratio. The constant changing cause the engine to die at stops.
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Update.. I found a couple of things that contributed ot the issue: First, I found that the Airbox for the air filter (fuel injection), had been closed improperly by the last service guy to look at it. It, not only pinched part of the air filter gasket, but also ruined 3 of the nuts that hold the screws which mount the airbox cover. The airbox top must have been out of alignment when they tightened one of the screws, because the nut had dropped, and was manually tightened without going into the "press socket". THey ruined it, and I have had to substitute new bolts (they WERE metric, at a size just below 1/4".. I included a washer at the bottom of the bolt, so that I could get a wrench on it.valve.
The next thing which may have contributed... was that one of the tubes leading from the PCV valve had broken apart and been temporarily fixed in such a way that it had broken again. I reset it properly, and immediately noticed a strong increase in power, and noticed that my engine wasn\'t working as hard as it had previously. It\'s been suggested that if the airbox was in good shape, the engine still might have had trouble with rain due to the vacuum issue weaking the intake strength, making it difficult to suck the air past /through even a bit of water.
(plus water possibly getting into that vacuum tube) Next thing is to replace the air filter. and then cross my fingers during the next rain storm.
Had my first rainstorm and a series of puddles that would normally stall the car, but all's well, and I haven't even replaced the filter yet. I'm considering opening up the airbox (underside) a bit more and removing the sound damper from the airline going to the fuel injector system. My reasoning being that it would significantly increase airflow and performance. Still on the fence about it though.
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