plugs and wires
Asked by Robertkyboy1983 May 04, 2019 at 05:29 PM about the 1996 Chevrolet Cavalier Sedan FWD
Question type: Maintenance & Repair
I replaced my plugs and wires and its miss firing bad and won't idle. I have rechecked my plugs and wires. The plugs look fine and the wires are in the right order. Do you have any idea what's wrong?
2 Answers
Battery has a full charge and connections all good? With your foot holding the throttle a little, does it run ok? Any applicable trouble codes? Do you think it is an ignition miss-fire--fuel miss-fire or something else? If spark miss-fire, hopefully it will idle, use a digital multimeter on low voltage setting, you touch the spark plug wires, one at a time, you don't penetrate the wire or take it loose, it's an inductive reading, you just touch it. I've seen readings of .6 or .7 volts, not even a full volt. The point is, if the reading is bouncing off zero, there is no spark on that wire. My opinion.
I would make sure that you have the proper gap on the plugs and I would test to make sure that you don't have a bad plug or two I have run into that problem with brand new plugs.