Re: 3.8 coilpacks

Old age?

<clare at snyder.on.ca> wrote in message
news:ji9nr3132ug49l6l5aoffcml9s1g26rdp1@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> 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)
>
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