I drive a 1988 2.3 Turbo Coupe. While driving, or idleing, it miss fires. I checked the spark plug wires and they are brand new. I just bought a new distributor button for it, and its got a V8 distributor on it. The button was cracked, so I replaced it hoping it'd clear it up, but it didnt. Does anyone know what else it could be? Im thinking its the distributor cap, but its in good condition.
get any better at higher rpm? those have a fuel injector for each cylinder right? if so it could be fuel related(plugged injector) or electrical in relation to the fuel system.
If this car has individual injectors, simply remove the connector from the injector and take a "194" bulb (get one at parts store) and on the bottom of the bulb pull the wires out straight.
Plug the bulb into the injector connector and crank it over. The bulb should "pulse" letting you know that the electrical part of the injector is getting a signal.
does'nt take much to pick up a miss on the exhaust side if valve is burnt, hopefully it something easy if you do have aa low cylinder do a lead down test. thats a little more indepth but its better than pulling the head!!if that don't do it start this:beerbottl :beerbottl :beerbottl
Just a thought here: I don't know much about cars at all but what I do know is about these cars. I drive an '87 tbird tc and an '88 tbird tc, along with my '94 sho.
Do you happen to have an aftermarket CD player installed with the amp bypassed in the trunk?
BOTH of my TC's did this and I could not figure out why. My boyfriend did every single test you can do to see what was causing it and spent way more time and effort than we had trying to figure it out on the '87. Then I finally gave up and started driving the '88 all the time instead, so I took my cd player out of the '87 and put it in the '88 and put the stock radio back in the 87 and it stopped misfiring and the '88 started doing the same thing! I would never in my life have known this was the problem if I didn't have two identical cars to test it on, but sure enough it was a problem related to either the amp bypass or the wiring to the equalizer being unplugged or something along those lines.
The CD player is now in my sho (and running just fine thank you) and the tbirds both have the stock am/fm/cassette back in with the amp plugged in again and all 3 cars are running like they were made to.
i dont even have the stock radio in it, i just listen to the exhaust. and i still havent figured out the whole missfiring yet. its really irritating me
Dont you think it has something to do with wirings? I had similar problem with my old jeep on its Jeep spark plug wire which caused the misfiring... :whoaa:
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