Re: troublshooting an intermitten dead cylinder

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Re: troublshooting an intermitten dead cylinder

Rosco	29 Oct 2006 16:03
Willshak cried out >> 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 [quoted text clipped - 16 lines] > You checked the fuel filter? > You tried injector cleaner? not really sure if is ths same cylinder every time, but yes i do use products like stp very often. The fuel filter i will be replacing next.

Willshak	29 Oct 2006 12:47
> 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 - 11 lines] > right track? > The same cylinder every time? You checked the fuel filter? You tried injector cleaner? Signature Bill in Hamptonburgh, NY To email, delete the double zeroes after @

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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