90q missing on cyl. 5...more help needed

[Burl Vibert]

Dave Hord wrote:
>
> Car: 1989 90 quattro.
>
> I posted this problem last month, in the last two weeks of January.  Car is a
> 2.3L non-turbo.
>
> When it's wet out (raining, snowing) the car starts to miss on one or two
> cylinders.  In January the miss seemed specific to cylinder #5.
>
> I have replaced, at the recommendation of the list, the following:
>
> Spark Plugs
> Rotor
> Cap
> Spark Plug Wires - Installed with di-electric grease.
>
> I have checked the hall sender wires, and connection...and these _seem_ okay,
> though I'm not 100% positive of this...how can I be without replacing them?
>
>
> Given the above..what ELSE could it be???


Hi Dave:

Coil, perhaps?

Burl Vibert
1987 5kcstq
Kingston, Ontario