Sputtering

So I was driving along Kirkwood Hwy today and got into a turing lane to turn into a shopping center . Long story short, I ended up plowing through a larger slush pile on my way in, nothing too big though. Not thinking anything of it, I turned the jeep off and went into the store. I came back out and the front was smoking a little bit.

Now the check engine light is on and I keep losing power. I have stalled out a couple times when I went into neutral.

What did I do?
Can I fix it.

if it was slush and not ice you could have sucked up the watery mix and now you just have to run it till it all blows out, i used to do it all the time when, but if it were ice it could be anything, like dented the exhaust and now your chocking it of power??

and meeper was the an attempted pick up line.... if not i think i might use it

Its was like 1:30pm and the slush felt really soft, I dont think there was ice. But I did run it a decent amount afterwards (20 miles on and off) and no improvement. Thats actually when it started stalling out in neutral. Since its cold out now, is the water going to freeze in the engine.... grrr this sucks

As a side note; prior to this when I would first start up the jeep, or even after I would run it for a while then shut it down and start it back up again, I would sometimes start sputtering/looseing power for a second till I changed gears or backed off a lot then gave it gas again.

I dont know if this has anything to do with what is going on now and it just got worse, or that I just got some water in the engine..

I hope it's just water in the engine.

how many miles are on your jeep...possible fuel filter?? might not have anything to do with the slush

I did a quick look at the jeep earlier when it first happend. I got most of the slush off and stuff. I checked for loose lines, oil level, etc.
It didnt smoke tooo much.

Its got 106700 miles on it.

When I try the key thing where are the numbers going to show up? where the miles are displayed?

Do I have to hook something up to get the numbers?

.... I'm such a girl

ok.. did you check the air filter? and it could be the alternator.. it could have been going.. and the cold water snow cracked the windings.. mine was acting crazy and then died one day.. it just wasnt putiting out enough juice.. to run stuff so the battery was bad..
it could also be water in the distributer cap?? do tj's even have those.. i know the cj's were notorious for having leaky caps.. ive been lucky with mine.. but not knowing the maintence of her jeep..
and hot stuff getting splashed with cold water slush.. makes parts rapidly shrink..

Who said fuel filters are not serviceable?

its probibly the ign system. either the wires are bad or the dist cap got wet

thats what i said.. or ice in the air filter... choking the engine for air..

its a 1997 TJ

I tried doing the turing the key thing and I didnt get the numbers to come up.

I have to go to Jersey tomorrow (long drive). I'll take the jeep to see if maybe (hopefully) it will clear up.

Quote from "bmf24"

its probibly the ign system. either the wires are bad or the dist cap got wet

I really think that it happend from the slush, so maybe its not the wires, but would just running it dry ou the dist cap?

Quote from "turtle"

If the check engine light is still on tomorrow, I have a code reader that you can use to see what it is...

jeez mike what tools don't you have???