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Old 02-22-09, 05:29 PM
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Failing/Failed Leading Coil?

I'm having a weird issue with my car, mainly I first thought it was my charging system so I replaced my battery, starter, and alternator. Now after being able to drive it for awhile, I'm getting a lot more backfire and hesitation in the lower rpms, 1-4K, and now I can't even get it started. I'm trying to rule out things to find the source and I'm curious to know if you guys think its the leading coil pack too. Thanks
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what is your battery voltage right now? (when you can't start it?)
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is it flooding? does it sound like it's trying to start but it wont? andd you should perhaps do a compression check. but checking spark is pretty easy to do.
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It could be flooded. I've checked for spark before and its weird cause I would get moments where I wont get any, and there are other times when I would get spark. I mainly thought this is due to the battery since the coil packs arn't really prone to failing, or as I'm told from a friend. But I'm wondering if I'm going at it the wrong way and its really the coil pack that's failing and causing my voltage to drop and car to not start.




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