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Re: 3.8 coilpacks

by "JHG" <jhg@[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Feb 19, 2008 at 09:16 PM

Old age?

<clare at snyder.on.ca> wrote in message
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> Got called back to the office this afternoon because a computer was
> rebooting. The 1994 Trans S****t 3.8 ran beautifully. I shut ijt off,
> and when I came out half an hour later and restarted it I smelled raw
> gas from the now cold exhaust, and the engine had a pronounced miss.
>
> I limped it home and disconnected injectors one at a time ntill I
> found #3 made no difference. I shut it off and pulled #3 plug wire.
> When I cranked it over there was no spark.
> I pulled the wire from the coil. Still no spark. I pulled #6 from the
> coil (opposite connection) and it had LOTS of fire.
> I pulled the coilpack and replaced it - lots of fire, but the engine
> still missed. Spark tester showed the second (middle) coil pack was
> producing a weaker than normal spark - so I replaced it too, and the
> engine now runs as sweet as ever.
>
> Any idea what would cause 2 coils to "go south" all at once?
> The other coil pack was replaced something like 5 years and 90,000 km
> ago. (thruck has over 365,000km on it now)
>
> -- 
> Posted via a free Usenet account from http://www.teranews.com
>
 




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3.8 coilpacks
clare at snyder.on.ca   2008-02-19 23:08:27 
Re: 3.8 coilpacks
=?iso-8859-15?Q?Bon=B7ne=  2008-02-19 23:26:38 
Re: 3.8 coilpacks
clare at snyder.on.ca   2008-02-20 20:52:12 
Re: 3.8 coilpacks
=?iso-8859-15?Q?Bon=B7ne=  2008-02-21 12:47:57 
Re: 3.8 coilpacks
"JHG" <jhg@[  2008-02-19 21:16:42 
Re: 3.8 coilpacks
dye@[EMAIL PROTECTED] (d  2008-03-05 10:34:57 

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