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#1
03-15-2006, 10:02 PM
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Flashing check engine light
I was on the way home when the car started shaking and putteing like the Cat was blocked or something, not much power and the check engine light started flashing.
Any ideas, oh yeah it's a 96 Z-24 
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#3
03-15-2006, 11:21 PM
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Re: Flashing check engine light
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#4
03-15-2006, 11:35 PM
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Re: Flashing check engine light
a flashing check engine lights means multiple cylinder missfires. In other words your engine is detonating bad and probabily on its last leg
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#5
03-17-2006, 12:33 PM
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Re: Flashing check engine light
Due a tune up, coil packs, plugs and wires, also check your cat and 02 sensors. Might be the main problem
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#6
03-21-2006, 08:41 PM
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Re: Flashing check engine light
pulled the plugs today, theres alot of oil down in the cylinders and yellowish goo stuff around 1 and 3, i cleaned them off as best as i could, but in the process of pulling them, the boots were damged, tried to put those back together as best as i could, put it all back together and it sound even worse than before, i think i might have found my problem.
my question is does anyone know where i can get replacment boots from. a couple of years ago all you could get them from was a dealer or napa and there both pretty high in price,
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#7
03-21-2006, 08:45 PM
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Re: Flashing check engine light
alsodoes anyone know the techinical name for the spark plug boots, i trying to look something up and i need the real name.
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#8
03-22-2006, 04:21 PM
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Re: Flashing check engine light
saprk plug wires is what you need
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#9
03-22-2006, 05:01 PM
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Re: Flashing check engine light
The Quad 4 doesnt use plug wires,they are boots that are directly over the plugs/coils.If you listen to Denso (formerly NipponDenso),a flashing check engine light means the catalytic converter could explode at any time.I find that hard to believe,but I can imagine the converter filling with raw fuel,because of a massive misfire.Basically,you may have spark jumping right to the head thru the oil residue and its not jumping the gap to make a spark.Hence....raw fuel in the exhaust.
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#10
03-23-2006, 11:28 AM
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Re: Flashing check engine light
didn't think about it being a quad. my bad.
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