On Tue, 19 Feb 2008 23:26:38 -0500, Bon·ne·ville <sp@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>In article <ji9nr3132ug49l6l5aoffcml9s1g26rdp1@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>, clare at
>snyder.on.ca says...
>> 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)
>
>Its simple really, bad plugs or bad wires will eventually equal bad
>coils.
>
>Need I say more?
Plugs are fine. I'll be checking the wires when it warms up, but the
spark testers show excellent spark on all six now. Also, absolutely NO
ignition noise on an AM radio held close to the running engine (which
is usually a pretty good way of indicating bad spark plug continuity)
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