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93 corolla misfire5jgibbs 06-29-2006, 02:30 AM I am not a car buff by any means.... yesterday, it was poring rain, i drove to work fine, i will admit, i am always heavy on the gas.. racing the rpms through 1,2,3, gear.. no problems anyway.. i leave work.. 8 hours later.. and i get this sputtering when i floor it.. now.. usually the car picks up and goes.. but the acceleration stops, and it almost jerks the car back and forth.. .. i had my friend drive it and he said.. one of or more than one of my cylinders is most likley misfiring.. i took my ignition wires off the sparkplugs today.. and third plug from the distributor was moist.. it smelled of water and oil mixed.. so i sprayed all of the inside with 99% alcohol that i get from work so it evaporates fast and kills any water.. still have the same problem.. didn’t do anything.. i regularly use fuel cleaner and FI cleaner.. i guess i am going to try replacing the cables from the distributor to the sparkplugs and changing the distributor cap.. the spark plugs are a few months old.. so i doubt they are the issue.. i may add.. when i fly the rpms way up.. without the car being in gear, it usually does not bogg down, it has a few times.. but not much.. a month or so ago i had a new catalytic converter installed.. i have yet to ever replace the fuel filter.. so im going to eventually get around to doing that.. i just dont know where it is and how to go about doing it.. so any help with that would be great to.. anyone with some incite, i would greatly appreciate it.. because well.. as u know, being young, usually means that the cash flow is limited.. so i dont have fancy equipment or anything like that.. so simple things that are cheep and most likely the problem would be nice.. if worst comes to worst.. and i have to drop a lot of money.. so be it.. Brian R. 06-30-2006, 03:41 AM Welcome to the AF! This is not a fuel problem (most likely). Use Toyota wires, and replace the distributor cap and rotor. That is probably as far as you have to go. Check back. 5jgibbs 06-30-2006, 04:24 AM ok thanks. .but what is the rotor.. i can google it but im thinking i will understand it better if you explain to me what it is.. thanks Brian R. 06-30-2006, 04:30 AM Rotor is spinning contact under distributor cap vBulletin®, Copyright ©2009, Jelsoft Enterprises Ltd.
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