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Re: troublshooting an intermitten dead cylinder
| AS | 29 Oct 2006 16:58 |
The plug cannot be discarded as the cause of the problem. The spark you get when the plug is at atmospheric pressure is not the same as when the plug is at 150 psi. The higher the pressure, the easier for the plug to fail/foul.
How do the plugs look? Dark, oily, dry, white?
Measure the cylinder compression.
Good luck
> Just looking for advise to make sure I am on the right track. I have 91 > sentra e 1.6 with 225,000 miles. Great car but everynow and then, I [quoted text clipped - 10 lines] > are really clogged up and intermittently stop working. Am I on the > right track? |
| Rosco | 29 Oct 2006 10:12 |
Just looking for advise to make sure I am on the right track. I have 91 sentra e 1.6 with 225,000 miles. Great car but everynow and then, I loose a cylinder. For the longest I was thinking I was having distributer troubles or a bad plug wire, but tonight the dead cylinder came up again. I pulled the from the offending cylinder and tested grounded against the engine, got a really strong spark. That to me rules out the distributer, plugwire, and plug. Next, I took a voltometer to the fuel injection socket and got a 13.86v good current. I then tried touching a screwdriver to the top of the injector and did hear the clicking but it did sound different that the first and fourth cylinder yet louder than the second (odd, the second is firing right now) .I am thinking with the extremely high milage that the injectors are really clogged up and intermittently stop working. Am I on the right track?
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