Let me start off by saying, I know what I did. I changed the thermostat after draining about 1/2 gallon of coolant from the radiator with the engine stone cold, as in hadn't started in 2 days. I figured that was enough to not spill much, right? Wrong.

I unbolted the thermostat and quite a bit spilled out. Nice big mess. I'm almost 100% sure that some coolant has found a nice warm home in the plug wells and is the cause of the miss.

My question is, whats the best way to dry the plug wells? keeping in mind its like 20*F and I don't have an air compressor.

At least the car is reaching operating temperature correctly now.

Anyone? I'd like to fix it while there is still light out since I don't have a garage. Sorry if i seem impatient, I just don't want to drive it tomorrow with a misfire.

Try and let it idle for a while, the heat from the engine will eventually dry it out I would think.

Yeah, I did that, its better, but not fixed. I think I'll Drive it a few days and see if it goes away.

Did you spill a little antifreeze in the spark plug well?

You probably killed the #5 coil and maybe #6. If not, you're still gonna need compressed air to get all the water out.

I'm still sure thats what it is. Either way, I drove it a bit a little while ago, and it didn't miss at all. Maybe If I'm lucky(would be a nice change), the antifreeze evaporated and the problem is gone. I'll keep an eye on it and report back in a few days.

On another note, the new thermostat works great. for the first time this winter, the car is warming up and staying warm like it did before i changed the Intake manifold and thermostat last spring. Wonder if that T-stat was bad out of the box? It seemed fine until it started getting cold outside. Maybe my gas mileage will improve too, 15MPG is really bad for a car with 2.73rar, even in winter.

I had to deal with this a few days ago in the cold as well, I twirled some shop towels to a point and the repeatedly crammed them down into the plug well. It only got a little bit at a time but you could cram it in there then go inside for 10 mins and let it soak up. I think Q-tips would work better but I didn't have any.

Just a tip if you still have the miss, I ended up having to replace the plug wire to stop the misfire that seemed to come and go as I guess some coolant fouled the wire

Thanks, I'm hoping it fixed itself. I hope I don't have to change a wire either, I just changed them about 8k miles ago with the top-shelf Autolite ones with the lifetime warranty. I drove it all last winter with the intake leaking coolant, The original plugs and wires were still on the car then, and they looked nasty. I'd guess it had been leaking long before I bought it in August '09, but it never misfired from it.

Well, I said I'd update this, so here you go:

It fixed its self! Why cant all problems fix themselves? The last time I felt a misfire was the day of my accident on 1/20/11, its been fine since. I wish I could say the same for my bumper, but all well.