[s-cars] Coil acting weird?

[Ian Duff]

The wires to the coils suffer aging insulation cracking where they  
exit the cover, at the back of the valve cover. I bet there's some  
shorting going on, that you're fixing on the coils you're replacing.

A cheap, quick check would be to pull the coil cover, remove the  
little plate holding the coil wires in place, and, after examining for  
obvious bare wires, temporarily wrap each wire with a short piece of  
electrical tape. If your miss diminishes, chances are you're on the  
right track.

-Ian Duff, sent from my iPhone.

On Aug 18, 2009, at 22:00, Elizabeth Karnes <audigurl at live.com> wrote:

>
> I have a '95 S6,  I have a coil that is working most of the time and  
> then it goes out for a few min making it run on 4 cylenders then it  
> will kick back in and run on 5.  It has been comming and going for a  
> few days now.  I was told that when a coil goes bad IT goes bad,  it  
> doesn't act up.    I have replaced 2 of them due to that same thing  
> happening and it takes care of the problem until it goes  to a  
> different coil.  So any ideas on what would be causing the coils to  
> act up like that?
>
> Thanks, Betsey
>
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