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Old 02-12-2019, 03:35 PM
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Originally Posted by Muleears View Post
About two weeks ago I started getting the SES light. I had noticed that it was missing a little when started cold, I figured that was what was tripping the light. Foxwell told me it was cylinders 2+3 acting up. It always smoothed out after running a minute or so. Last week it was taking more time to run on all six, sometimes a couple miles. So I bought two coils and replaced 2+3. Put in a new battery about this time also. I should point out that the plugs were done about 6 weeks ago with iridiums. The new coils initially seemed to fix it, for a day or two anyway. Today when started to come home from work (a 40 mile trip) it was rough again and the SES came back. I drove it home but noted rough running most of the trip. When about 30 miles into the commute it smoothed out and began running smoothly on all six. When I got home Foxwell told me I had misfires on cylinders 3,4,5+6! These must have been intermittant as It wouldn't run on just two! So what I have done is swapped coils 1+3 with each other. #1 has never misfired according to the scanner, so now we'll see if the miss follows the coil or not. If the skip stays in cylinder 3 (with the known good coil) where do I go? Look at injectors? I only run premium and now it has a can of Seafoam in it. I'll report how it runs tomorrow morning with another cold start and 40 mile drive. TIA

If it starts misfiring when you first start up but go away after the engine has run for a while, I would look into a leaky injector. Just like a flooded engine, a flooded cylinder will not run correctly. It is only after the engine has run enough to clear the cylinder that the misfire is no longer present.
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