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Re: Engine miss in high gear #1528202 03/19/06 05:01 AM
Joined: Oct 2000 Posts: 770 Houston, Texas 2 2X95SEs_dup1 OP Veteran CEG\'er
OP 2X95SEs_dup1 Veteran CEG\'er 2 Joined: Oct 2000 Posts: 770 Houston, Texas	Plugs didn't help one bit. I stopped, left the engine running, and started to pull plug wires from the coil pack looking for the missing cylinder. As I was doing this the miss went away. I looked for arching in the dark but didn't see any. I'm ready to take the car out and shoot it!

Re: Engine miss in high gear #1528203 03/20/06 04:58 AM
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FavoriteMystaque Hard-core CEG\'er F Joined: Oct 2004 Posts: 1,456	Did you grease the boots? Intermittent stuff is like that, go looking, it hides .

Re: Engine miss in high gear #1528204 03/20/06 02:25 PM
Joined: Oct 2000 Posts: 770 Houston, Texas 2 2X95SEs_dup1 OP Veteran CEG\'er
OP 2X95SEs_dup1 Veteran CEG\'er 2 Joined: Oct 2000 Posts: 770 Houston, Texas	I always silicone grease them up. Old plugs looked OK and had no carbon tracks.

Re: Engine miss in high gear #1528205 03/20/06 11:49 PM
Joined: Oct 2000 Posts: 770 Houston, Texas 2 2X95SEs_dup1 OP Veteran CEG\'er
OP 2X95SEs_dup1 Veteran CEG\'er 2 Joined: Oct 2000 Posts: 770 Houston, Texas	Went out today and the car acted stupid. I headed back to plug it into the scanner and the bug went away! It throws no codes but I can at least record data and run a cylinder balance test to see which cylinder it is....

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