stuntjunkie199
03-14-2013, 03:36 PM
I've got a little (hopefully) electrical/ignition problem that I'm hoping someone can point me in the right direction. First I think it would be helpful to provide the background to the situation.
About a week ago I cranked the car in the morning, it was fairly cold but still the car cranked fine and idled good so I started off. About a mile down the road I noticed and pretty pronounced miss and it didn't go away no matter what I did. In fact it seemed to get harder and harder until eventually I was trying to figure out where I could park the car. I had to be somewhere so I drove the car about 10 miles with this awful miss. Come to find out a plug wire had broke so I was literally running on three cylinders. I slapped new plugs and wires on it and went about my business. It run fairly well but still had a small RANDOM miss but definitely not undriveable.
Fast forward a week, last night I was driving down the freeway, car was running perfect. The miss had disappeared completely until I was setting in a drive through and I felt it came back. Drove the car a little bit farther (2-3 miles) and I lost all power. The miss was horrible and I was topped out at 45mph wide open. I came to a hill and she just wouldn't climb it even downshifting. I shoved in the clutch and it died completely. I tried starting it back up and it would hit but the idle was so rough you had to rev it to keep it above 300 rpms. Even still it didn't have enough power to even pull out. So far I've put a new coil on it and a rotor button. Tried to fool with it today and it won't even hit. It cranks just won't start. I'm getting fuel for sure the plugs are wet. However, I'm only getting spark in the #4 cylinder plug wire. The rest have zero spark.
Dizzy cap? Jumped time? Any help appreciated. 89 LXi by the way. 231,000 miles
About a week ago I cranked the car in the morning, it was fairly cold but still the car cranked fine and idled good so I started off. About a mile down the road I noticed and pretty pronounced miss and it didn't go away no matter what I did. In fact it seemed to get harder and harder until eventually I was trying to figure out where I could park the car. I had to be somewhere so I drove the car about 10 miles with this awful miss. Come to find out a plug wire had broke so I was literally running on three cylinders. I slapped new plugs and wires on it and went about my business. It run fairly well but still had a small RANDOM miss but definitely not undriveable.
Fast forward a week, last night I was driving down the freeway, car was running perfect. The miss had disappeared completely until I was setting in a drive through and I felt it came back. Drove the car a little bit farther (2-3 miles) and I lost all power. The miss was horrible and I was topped out at 45mph wide open. I came to a hill and she just wouldn't climb it even downshifting. I shoved in the clutch and it died completely. I tried starting it back up and it would hit but the idle was so rough you had to rev it to keep it above 300 rpms. Even still it didn't have enough power to even pull out. So far I've put a new coil on it and a rotor button. Tried to fool with it today and it won't even hit. It cranks just won't start. I'm getting fuel for sure the plugs are wet. However, I'm only getting spark in the #4 cylinder plug wire. The rest have zero spark.
Dizzy cap? Jumped time? Any help appreciated. 89 LXi by the way. 231,000 miles