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Ok here's the issue and related parts replaced, due to other issues. I have an intermittent skip on my 94 3.0L which it had when I bought it and so far have tracked it down to being a fuel delivery issue and here is how: replaced coil with Accel Super Coil for a hotter spark, replaced Distributor due to a bad bushing, replaced cap, rotor and wires with a set of Taylor, replaced spark plugs with E3's, Fuel Pump and filter was replaced less than a year before purchase. No check engine light on and the light works.
symptoms currently observing: Skip on one cylinder under heavy load like when I turn up my street and it is a major hill I will feel it. Hard start when warm condition, I have replace the temp sensor for the ECM but issue remains. So at this point I'm down to injectors or fuel pressure regulator which I'm leaning towards injectors because I'm not getting any loss in power besides when that skip happens.
Being OBD I, I don't get the luxury of hooking a scanner up to it and knowing which cylinder is is the culprit so my question is how do you diagnose which cylinder isn't getting the proper amount of fuel?
I have pulled all but one connector off the fuel injectors one at a time and all but the one I can't get off due to the fuel rail makes the engine stumble. This tells me the issue is an injector is getting plugged and causing the skip/lack of fuel making feel like a skip. I have run 4 bottles of injector cleaner through it and it didn't help so I'm into replacing it but at this point do not want to replace all 6 injectors just for one bad one.
any thoughts and advice you may have are greatly appreciated thanks for your time to read the long post.
symptoms currently observing: Skip on one cylinder under heavy load like when I turn up my street and it is a major hill I will feel it. Hard start when warm condition, I have replace the temp sensor for the ECM but issue remains. So at this point I'm down to injectors or fuel pressure regulator which I'm leaning towards injectors because I'm not getting any loss in power besides when that skip happens.
Being OBD I, I don't get the luxury of hooking a scanner up to it and knowing which cylinder is is the culprit so my question is how do you diagnose which cylinder isn't getting the proper amount of fuel?
I have pulled all but one connector off the fuel injectors one at a time and all but the one I can't get off due to the fuel rail makes the engine stumble. This tells me the issue is an injector is getting plugged and causing the skip/lack of fuel making feel like a skip. I have run 4 bottles of injector cleaner through it and it didn't help so I'm into replacing it but at this point do not want to replace all 6 injectors just for one bad one.
any thoughts and advice you may have are greatly appreciated thanks for your time to read the long post.