in the process of finding the cause for my engine to be running on 3 cylinders.

[Young Chuck D]

last nite very suddenly my car started chugging and shaking and started sounding like a lawnmower. i pull over, pop the hood and find a spark plug wire loose. push it back down and it changes nothing. so i drive home and checked all my plugs today (bosch platinum +4's) and they're in beautiful condition. so my dad comes out and tells me to start it up. i do. he then pulls a spark plug wire and the engine begins to struggle. puts it back and it runs the way it was before. pulls another plug (the second from the left facing the front of the car) and nothing changes. from this he concludes that i'm running on 3 cylinders. he suggested new spark plug wires and began to look for the distributor. realizing its behind the engine under the intake manifold he began cursing american cars and went back in the house.

will new plug wires fix my problem? something tells me its more complicated than that.

[Ryan066]

well from what i belive its not the spark plug wires,, do those cars have coils? anyways your problem is what the other end of the spark plugs into..
u can check plug wires by measuring resistance,, they should all be around the same.
if absoulty nothing changes once u take that certain wire off then its not the wire,,, if it changes it slighty then maybe it is the wire

[Cold_Silence]

Mine was doing the same thing after i hosed it down under the hood, [not doing that again.] I found a cracked plug where the insulator is, it was causing a short that i could SEE at night, a spark wud hop from the plug to the closest piece of metal. Soo i just got new plugs and wires and it fixed it, its prolly time for new ones anyways so try that out.

[Young Chuck D]

Originally Posted by Cold_Silence

Mine was doing the same thing after i hosed it down under the hood, [not doing that again.] I found a cracked plug where the insulator is, it was causing a short that i could SEE at night, a spark wud hop from the plug to the closest piece of metal. Soo i just got new plugs and wires and it fixed it, its prolly time for new ones anyways so try that out.

you, my friend, are correct.

but i have new plugs in there already so i just bought wires.


i have plat. 4's

[Classicrocjunkie]

Originally Posted by Young Chuck D

i have plat. 4's

Thats your problem right there....4 prongs are just a gimmic and acutally do more harm than good. 2 is even pushing it. Our cars do not like BOSCH products for some reason, along with most GM cars in General. In fact i had a customer come back to my work today after telling him it was a bad move to install their Bank 1 O2 sensors because they are pure junk and he was getting a CEL from it even being brand new. He got a new Delco from the dealership and his problems went away. He personally thanked me for my help. Look at my waste of 159 bucks for the Nology hot wires... Just another gimmic. Stick with AC delco plugs if your not boosted. They will work the best.

[Young Chuck D]

Originally Posted by Classicrocjunkie

Thats your problem right there....4 prongs are just a gimmic and acutally do more harm than good. 2 is even pushing it. Our cars do not like BOSCH products for some reason, along with most GM cars in General. In fact i had a customer come back to my work today after telling him it was a bad move to install their Bank 1 O2 sensors because they are pure junk and he was getting a CEL from it even being brand new. He got a new Delco from the dealership and his problems went away. He personally thanked me for my help. Look at my waste of 159 bucks for the Nology hot wires... Just another gimmic. Stick with AC delco plugs if your not boosted. They will work the best.

i replaced the plugs all at once, why would only 1 cause problems? and they're still all in good condition. are you saying bosch is a silent killer of gm engines? that sounds semi-preposterous.

i just plugged the 1 new wire though and it hasn't changed anything, now i gotta risk it driving to school like this. ugh.

[Young Chuck D]

i am now looking into replacing a coil pack. hopefully i'm not dropping quarters in a dry wishing well.

also i noticed a bit of oil on the plug in the bad cylinder (cylinder #2)

someone said a piston ring could be my problem. :fear:


as the day marches on i will attempt to update this

[Ryan066]

coil pack will fix the problem, but make sure its the right one... i think u can test em when they are out,, make sure they HAVE resistance with an ohmmeter

[Young Chuck D]

Originally Posted by Ryan066

coil pack will fix the problem, but make sure its the right one... i think u can test em when they are out,, make sure they HAVE resistance with an ohmmeter

i dunno what the hell ur talking about, the coil with the bad cylinder(#2) connected to it was the bad one. i changed it, back to normal, everybody is happy and can ask me for rides again.

[quake61]

Originally Posted by Young Chuck D

i replaced the plugs all at once, why would only 1 cause problems? and they're still all in good condition. are you saying bosch is a silent killer of gm engines? that sounds semi-preposterous.

i just plugged the 1 new wire though and it hasn't changed anything, now i gotta risk it driving to school like this. ugh.

hell before this cavy i had a stratus and installed bosch

even the auto parts guy told me they were crap and ended up selling me the oem plugs

car worked fine after that before was missfiring a cylinder

cavys r the same gm dont like bosch in any masking and in any shape

[Ryan066]

Originally Posted by Young Chuck D

i dunno what the hell ur talking about, the coil with the bad cylinder(#2) connected to it was the bad one. i changed it, back to normal, everybody is happy and can ask me for rides again.

u must be dumb then.. there was two coils correct? i said make sure you replace the right one meaning the ones thats shorted out causing the problem rather then the one that is fine. then i said you can test them by measuring the resistance but i guess thats over your head..
try and take some advice from people you ignorant cunt