Finding a miss
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Finding a miss
The other day when I left my house the car hesitated a sec and then was fine. Came to a stop sign and could feel a miss. It cleared up and thought I was good. Well, wrong it started again. Looked at ignition wires and rear right was burnt and hard as a rock as it came out clip and was resting on exhaust manifold. I changed them this morning and still has a dead miss. Any ideas?
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Gonna wait for it to cool off some outside and will start pulling plugs. I noticed the difference pulling one wire at a time. Seams to idle fine but when start slipping the clutch to take off you can feel the miss, shake and low power.
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The plug wire that was bad was on the other side, wish it was the case. I changed all the plugs and she is running great. She has never blown any smoke so hopefully a plug was just going bad and fouled. Will test it out throughout the week. Probably pull it next weekend after I put some miles on it and look at color.
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The plug wire that was bad was on the other side, wish it was the case. I changed all the plugs and she is running great. She has never blown any smoke so hopefully a plug was just going bad and fouled. Will test it out throughout the week. Probably pull it next weekend after I put some miles on it and look at color.
Hopefully it is ALL GOOD and you can enjoy the ride without having to worry.DUB
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Same here. Already explained the worst case scenario to my wife. I said I could pull it and rebuild in the garage but it's time consuming and the smell of oil and such or buy a ready to run motor and have my friend mechanic take care of it. She asked how much for the 2nd option. Haha