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Offline posicarl

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running on 3 .....?
« on: 02 March 2006, 13:57 »
Right so i parked my 16v up the night before and went to use it for work the next day and its running like a bag o'sh!te, thought it would clear but no joy, sounds like its running on the 3 cylinders only and stinks of petrol out of the exhaust.

Ive just brought a mk 4 so at a very bad time this problem has occured.
I have a ecu relay on order anyway as now and then the car had been playing up below 4000rpm.

any ideas to fixing the running on 3 problem, could it just be a spark plug?   the rotor and cap are fine.
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Offline Dom Mk3

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Re: running on 3 .....?
« Reply #1 on: 02 March 2006, 15:00 »
remove it and check! Hold the plug against the rocker cover to see if it sparks (touching on the heaxagonal bit).

Could be plug or HT lead?
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Re: running on 3 .....?
« Reply #2 on: 02 March 2006, 15:19 »
cool thanks, yeh I will give it a go maybe when it stops snowing!
just after ideas at the mo.
cheers
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