3.0 engine problems.

[BoArDwAxStYlE]

First off hello everyone.

I'm having a little bit of a problem and looking for some help.
I recently had my CEL come on and the codes were
Lean bank 1, Lean bank 2, Misfire 3, Misfire 5.

I changed the plugs to motor-craft, and gaped them to .046
Cleared the codes to see if they were the problem.

The only problem code i am now getting is cyl 5 misfire.
Ive cleared it only a few times between about 50 miles.

Other know issues.
- I believe the head gasket is going, if not partially gone on pass side.
- The temp controller valve for heater core start to weep a steady stream.
I replaced it then 2 days later it popped again.
- I checked the plug wire against a spare and its not getting any spark at all even from coil. The coil was replaced last year in Nov.

Also i'm getting a serious loss in power and fuel economy.

Poss cam position sensor / Cam synchronizer / just head gaskets?

Any and all help thanks.

 

[James86]

If it's misfiring and one cylinder is not getting spark, it sound's like you may have solved your mystery. The cam syncro sensor is just a vane that rotates to indicate when to send a signal to the computer. Unless someone else chimes in, I'd suggest it's the coil pack. Did you put in a new one or a junkyard coil pack? When I had an injector die (essentially running on 5 cylinders like you) it was horribly gutless and sounded like shit.

 

[RonD]

For the head gasket, remove rad cap with engine cold, start engine, no coolant should come out, there is no pressure in a cold cooling system, if coolant comes out or you see bubbles consistently then you may have a head gasket issue.
If not I would change rad cap, your current cap may be allowing to much pressure to build up in the system causing the heater valve to leak.

No spark on #5 could be the coil again, "new" now means "never tested" not "it works", lol, it didn't used to be this way but more and more I am finding this to be true.
But cam position sensor tells the PCM when to spark so that could be the problem.
Have a read here:
http://www.therangerstation.com/tech_library/camshaft_position_sensor.html

 

[BoArDwAxStYlE]

Yeah i bought the accel super coil-pack.
Yeah it runs real shitty when its on just five. like its running on 4.5 actually. really shaky.
I will try the raid cap idea. Thanks

 

[James86]

Did you replace the coil pack for a particular reason? Like this cylinder had been misfiring before? Is the accel pack a "performance" pack you put on for kicks and the old one still worked? Maybe you altered the side-effects of a different issue and caused another...

 

[BoArDwAxStYlE]

Did you replace the coil pack for a particular reason? Like this cylinder had been misfiring before? Is the accel pack a "performance" pack you put on for kicks and the old one still worked? Maybe you altered the side-effects of a different issue and caused another...

I had almost this exact problem last year in first week of nov. The accel is a performace pack. That up until recently has worked fantastically. The old one drop cyl 3 and 5 on factory pack.
I also just passed 100k miles.

 

[James86]

Is it possible something is frying your coil packs? I didn't think they got much power suplied to them, just a signal and the coilpack itself is what creates the currrent needed for a spark, but I don't profess to know much about coilpacks.