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I found my miss problem it was a plug wire leak at the ceramic plug cover. 
It was sparking like crazy. I put on a temp boot. The car runs great smooth 
and powerful. I am very pleased.


Thanks;

Anthony Lacaria

At 09:35 AM 2/14/02 -0600, you wrote:
>At 10:06 PM 2/13/2002 -0500, you wrote:
>>. I have found  heavy carbon on plugs on cylinders 2 and 8 on the right side.
>Is it possible that your mixture is too rich and it fouls those 
>plugs?  Then of course, why just those two plugs and not the others?  Is 
>it possible that the valve guides in these two cylinders are shot?  You 
>said your compression is good, so the rings must be OK.  If you clean the 
>plugs and re-install them, does it run right for a while, and then starts 
>missing?  You said you have new plug wires, but is it possible for one or 
>more of those to be defective?  Have you tried the "darkness test"?  Let 
>the engine run in the dark and look for sparks under the hood, especially 
>when the engine is missing.  If you see any, you have bad plug wires.  Its 
>possible for the spark to "leak" only under load because the electrical 
>resistance of the plug gap increases with load, and the spark will try to 
>find the path of least resistance which might not be through the plug gap 
>if the wires are no good.  D^2
>
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