[97GT4.6]

Damn, im so stressed out right now.

Anyways, so i'm driving about a mile from my house, and all of a sudden the check engine light comes on and starts flashing, it starts missing really badly.

I shut it off, restart it and limp it home.. i noticed the passenger side closest to the firewall plug wire is off.. any ideas?

i really hope i didn't blow it up

 

[HMUSN]

coil came loose..
:dunno run the code.

 

[97GT4.6]

okay, i don't want to drive it anywhere tho.. maybe i can have someone bring a scan tool over here.. is there anything thats visible that i can notice right away?

 

[HMUSN]

well. having a plug wire not connected to your spark plug will cause a miss.

:lol


reconnect it and start the motor and see what happens.

 

[97GT4.6]

oh by the way, i put the plug wire back on and restarted it, and the wire came back off

 

[HMUSN]

first see if the plus is still in the head.. if not you blew a plug which means you need to get it re-threaded. if there is a plug in the head change your wires as it's probably just a bad wire.

 

[97GT4.6]

okay, its still in the head, so hopefully i just have a bad wire... how can i test it? with a DMM or something?

 

[HMUSN]

if it's not seating properly it's not going to make a good connection.

a cheap way to test ( DON'T start your motor)
is to swap the bad wire and try and plug it into a different cylinder.

if it still falls out it's the wire.

 

[97GT4.6]

okay, thanks ill go do that.

 

[HMUSN]

good luck.

 

[97GT4.6]

how do i test it tho without starting it?

 

[97GT4.6]

do you mean, after i swap the wires, i start it?

 

[HMUSN]

swap the bad wire and try and plug it into a different cylinder.

if it still falls out it's the wire.

 

[97GT4.6]

okay, thanks man ill go try that right now

 

[HMUSN]

don't start it at all. lol

take the bad plug wire and try plugging it into a different cylinder. if it falls out of that cylinder as well it's a bad wire.

 

[97GT4.6]

it didn't fall out, but it was looser than the other ones, so im guessing thats the problem

 

[Jucostud]

your car is fine man, just change your wires and plugs. my car has ran like that for 6 months My intake manifold kept leaking into my plugs, and i kept getting a cylinder 6 misfire. Thats all being fixed this week though with my pi intake.

 

[97GT4.6]

Thanks, im so relieved right now haha. it just started shakin so bad i was like time to get a new motor, and i wasn't thinking straight i guess. I'm gonna check the plugs, but for sure get new wires.

Thanks for all the help guys.

 

[HMUSN]

any time man.. while your in there I would change the plugs for the hell of it.

they gap at .054

 

[97GT4.6]

Thanks, should i get NGK's? I heard they are the best.