[s-cars] Miss Piggy's Miss. :-(

[Robert Myers]

I checked for spark.  Good strong spark.  So strong, in fact, that 
the spark is almost violet in color.

I'm also now suspecting a bad injector.  I have some old OEM 
injectors Rosattoed away.  They aren't RS2 level but one might be 
able to tell me what I need to know.  I'll stick one in tomorrow and 
give it a try.  It's just about dinner time now.

At 05:13 PM 1/22/2009, djdawson2 at aol.com wrote:
>Pull that coil and plug in one of your spare spark plugs... ground 
>the plug body and turn the engine over and watch for spark.  That 
>would be the fastest way to determine of your issue is really ignition related.
>
>Sounds like you might have an injector problem.
>
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: Robert Myers <bob at chips-ur-s.com>
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>Sent: Thu, 22 Jan 2009 2:10 pm
>Subject: [s-cars] Miss Piggy's Miss. :-(
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>Hi Y'all,
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>Several days ago Miss Piggy ('95.5 S6 w/ RS2 mods and the 1.8t coil
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>mod, etc) dropped a cylinder just before I got home with her.  Well,
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>at the time the temperature was about 4 degrees F and I decided
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>looking at her could wait a few days.  Today we're having a heat wave
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>(all the way up to 43 F) so it seemed a good day to examine her.
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>Found the miss quickly enough.  Disconnected injectors one at a time
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>and found that the idle got no worse when #3 was disconnected.  OK, I
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>got into my Rosattobin and retrieved my standby 1.8t coil and swapped
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>it into #3.  Problem solved - right?  No wrong.  Hmmm...  The #3 plug
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>looked a bit doubtful so it's back to the Rosattobin for a set of
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>plugs.  Changed plugs all around.  No help.
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>Hmmm...  Let's check compression.  150, 150, 145, 150, 125 front to
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>back.  #5 looks weak but that's not where the miss is.  OK, let's
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>stick in a fresh ECU w/ freshly burnt chips.  No change.  Checked for
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>B+ power at the white plugs on the firewall.  DMM sez all is OK w/
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>nominal 12 volts everywhere.  Reconnected white plugs.  No change.
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>Suggestions?
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>Bob
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