while waiting at a light my car just started shaking like crazy, i pull over, turn car off, turn it back on, engine light comes on, call dan, go to autozone, read code...cylinder #3 misfiring, pull plugs off, push them back, car starts up okay, erase codes but it still will jerk while idlling...any ideas what to look for now?
i did do a search and found 1 similar problem, someone suggested checking the gapping on the spark plugs. and i know i bought these ngk's pre-gapped

This post has been edited by LewFX: Apr 21, 2006 - 7:22 PM

Hi welcome to the Cylinder Mis-Firing club. My cylinder #4 is misfiriing... funny thing is... I donno which end is cylinder #4... I just purchased NGK plug and waiting for the Magnecor wires to arrive. Hope they fixes the problems...


Does your car sound like this:

errererererererererererererrrererrrr PUTT PUTT!! erererererererererererererererererererererererererererer PUTT!!! ererererererererrrerererrr...

something like that yes

Cylinder 4 is far right

check the cap, rotor, wires, ect. go from where the spark starts to where it ends looking for issues.

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hahahah i like that description

Did you check your spark plugs? I had a crx that likes to blow up the insulators on the 2nd cylinder.

ill check it soon, i gotta take off that monster c-one strut tower just to be able to pull the wires off.

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You could...you know... just sent that bar to me.

alright problem fixed...starting taking out wires then plugs, noticed the far right wire broke off onto the plug. needle nose pliers got it out, bought some toyota wires, popped them on. another thing that was bad was the person who i let put in my wires put them in the wrong order, so thats why #3 was coming up. so i put the wires in the right way, erased the code and car runs fine again.

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Good! now buy some sway bars!