help with a Missfire

Status
Not open for further replies.
Joined
Oct 26, 2004
Messages
563
Location
Reno
This is on my wifes 99 Mustang GT w/ 50k miles, check engine light came on and I had the code pulled at autozone and it says cylinder 5 missfire. The car has a plug on coil no spark plug wires. what should I look for to fix this problem. thanks for any help
 
Was the light on solid, or was it blinking? A P0305 (or any P03XX code for that matter)with a blinking light needs immediate attention.

If it was on solid (memory code), I wouldn't kill myself tracking it down now. That being said if I was worried about it, I would pull the coil and plug and inspect for any carbon tracks, ck coil connector for corrosion/loose contacts. Most of the missfires I ran into were dues to 1)plug wires, which you don't have and 2) plugs then 3)coils. Injectors rarely cause problems, not impossible but very rare. At the minimum if everything looks OK, I would swap my #5 coil with the #6 coil, or whichever coil is handy so if your ck eng light reappears and throws a P0306, then you know you have a bad coil. You could even swap the spark plug into another hole and watch for that cyl missfire code, me I would just grab an extra plug and put it in #5 so I wouldn't have to worry about it. Without a nice diag machine to do a running power balance, relative injector flow, and relative compression the "swap component method" will work, albeit slowly.
 
thanks for the advice, I'm gonna try what you suggested..here comes the stupid question, which one is cylinder 5??????thanks again
 
Front cylinder, drivers side.

Pass side of engine front to back 1-2-3-4
Drivers side of engine front to back 5-6-7-8

*** forbid FoMoCo should follow a logical system to number cylinders like everyone else.
 
Status
Not open for further replies.
Back
Top Bottom