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John Featherman Mechanic and Car Memes

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Got a question for u know it all “mechanics”. I have an 01 eclipse 3.0. Has a cylinder 1 misfire. Already replaced
plugs, wires, distributor cap and rotor. Also replaced valve cover gaskets recently. This problem was here before all
that. It still has tons of power, but slightly stumbles on take off. If I clear the code and start it up, it triggers the light
almost immediately. Any ideas?

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Isaac Fleetwood
I'd check compression 5

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Alex Peters
Probable valve issue 3

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Aaron Barton 2 new comments

Intake plenum leak. Thank me later. 2
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John Featherman
Replaced that gasket when I took the plenum off to change plugs and wires
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Aaron Barton
Spray around. Just did a motor swap on this vehicle last weekend. The intake plenum is highly
susceptible to warping
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John Featherman
Good idea. I’ll do that tomorrow
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Brian Goulet
Check compression. Warp is a probable cause for this. JB weld fix all and send it till she blows 5

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John Featherman
Sounds good to me if it’s warped
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Aaron Barton
What I did is take a piece of glass and wrap sand paper onto it with tape. Make figure 8s with the
plenum until it glides across the paper smooth.
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Aaron Barton
Valve cover would not cause a misfire unless its complete trash
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John Featherman
Ya I know they are different. I was just throwing that out there too.
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Derick Ryg
I think ya'll are forgetting you have to pull the plenum to do the back valve cover so he already did
it 1

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Aaron Barton
Doesnt matter when the plenum isnt sealing
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Scott Sims
 Doesn't mean it's not warped and not sealing. The sebrings did the same thing if it's not true have it
milled
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Aaron Barton
^yep 1

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Kellie G Milner
^Aaron Barton why not valve grinding compound...
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Kellie G Milner
But yes on a peice of glass..
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Adam Blom
Distributor??? 1

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Adam Blom
Just delt with the same problem on my 2.5 Mitsubishi
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Donald Armstrong
Do a compression check. 3

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Steven Crump
It doesnt have a distributor. Compression check, smoke test intake for leak, test injector.
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Christopher Sanguino
Reprogram throttle body
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Jose Juan Gallegos Garcia

Have u replaced the Fuel injector??
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En Sin replied · 2 replies

Jhon Tucker
Or check the MAF sensor and O2 sensors
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Juan Rodriguez
A circuit code would come back right away. Not just a misfire
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Sam Cook
What's the code p0301? 1

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Jake Gustafson replied · 3 replies

Steffen Durkee
Injector
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Christopher Sanguino
You ve got to get you a snap con scanner and go through the procedure
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James Harding
Sure you didn't leave some shit unplugged? Plus it's an eclipse fucking throw it away 4

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Juan Rodriguez
Check wiring to injectors and make sure you use noid lights to check each injector connector 1

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Damion Rugar
Check the battery it might be loose
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Mattloque Taylor
Vac leak, iac, tpms, low compresson, bad valve seat, ecu ground fault for cylinder 1 injector.... time to
test everything 2

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Luis Lara
Wiring is known to go bad and also the ecu
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Sam Cook
Check the pins in the connectors to the injector and coil
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Carl Walker
Tbh for problems like this id take a look at the spark plugs and compare the wear. They usually tell you
a story. The color alone might tell you if its fuel or ignition related issues. But id recommend that you
check fpr proper spark and fuel psi before you start spending on things you dont really need. 1

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Malachi Hernandez
Make a fb post and get every possible reason and chase your tail for 3 days 7

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Sam Cook
Also seen a crack in the flexplate cause a p0301 if its an automatic 1

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Jim Dunn replied · 3 replies

Carl Walker
If not enough spark then it could be a coil or dizzy and cap issue. If fuel then id check injector
connector before jumping into fuel psi and injector resistance. 1

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Christopher Kennedy
Mass air flow sensors?
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Spencer Little
Christian Wil 1

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Kevin Kreutzer
There's still an eclipse on the road ?? The motors had a reputation for shorter life than you'd expect
so....scrap is $160 a ton today...
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Derek Diggett replied · 1 reply

Josh Guerrero
Clogged injector? 1
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Kevin Valladares
Swap injectors and delete the code could be clough
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Joe Smith
Needs a Cummins swap 2

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Miles Mahan
Flex seal
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Matt Mazgaj
Intake manifold gasket
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Garrett Michael Cullen

Check for
Spark
Fuel
Compression
Once you’ve narrowed it to one of those you can move forward.
For spark sounds like all you have left is the distributor.
For fuel it would probably be the injector since it’s that one cylinder.
Compression it could be a cracked valve, intake leak
Or many other things. Loss of compression if not an intake leak usually screams mechanical failure. 1

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Daena 'Dae' Switzer

I had this same problem on my '02 Lancer. Following to see if anyone knows. Lol. 1

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JR Moore
Injector is what it sounds like to me
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Jordan Blood
My car did this with a stretched timing belt. 1

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Anthony James Wisecup

Step 1
Buy dart board.
Step 2
Throw dart at car instead.
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Acknowledge that this post is about as accurate 2

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Zach Clapper
My boss has the same car she had a cylinder 5 mis fire and after she got the intake gasket replaced it
fixed the issue
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Robert Edward Case

Last time you compression checked?
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Zack Miller
Injector.
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Adam Long
# 1 coil Pak , 1

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Shawn Okeef
Possible valve not seating good on that cylinder
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Josh Smith
That has a distributor? Pretty sure mitsubishi has been using coil packs since at least 89. Not sure on
how many models tho.
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Zakk Wylde
Check fuel injector, mass air flow sensor, and connections
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Kim Newby
you need to supply more info to get a GOOD reply on what it could be what code you fuckin getting?
LOL
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Nathan James Byron Moore
Fuel presurre issues maybe
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Mack Davidson
Now the mad scientist is Ganna have to rip apart the block to replace the piston rings you just fried 7

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Andrea Harper replied · 13 replies

Chevy Whyte
Swap injectors and or compression test for bent valves 2

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John Featherman replied · 1 reply

Armani Martinez Smith

My car did the same thing, 05 Chrysler Pacifica had cylinder 4 misfire got the coils and plugs done,
then CEL came on for camshaft I replaced that and the sensors still had real shaky idle and shut off if
idle for to long, hesitating on take off from a red light or any stop, it was a bad injector I wasn’t getting
enough fuel.. after $650 of work just to find out an injector can cause a engine light to constantly flash
and have these problems, hope that helped.. 1

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Eric Jesse
"tons of power" 1

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Craig Watkin
Manifold gasket leak.
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Beau Gordon Carless

Yep, you have all basically covered every part on his engine. Great work Facebook mechanics!
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Delmas Davis
Race me bro.i got tons of power!!! 1

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Matt Smith
What code is it
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Kyle Anderson
Try swapping engines?
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Patrick Herrman
Move the injector on cylinder 1 to another hole and see if the miss follows. If it does, you need an
injector. If it doesn't you need a noid light to check if the wiring and PCM can fire the injector. If thats
ok, get an inline spark checker and put it on the #1 and make sure it has spark. If all that is ok, its base
engine issue. 2

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John Featherman
How hard is it to swap injectors on this motor? Besides removal of the plenum
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Stephen Zahornacky
Best solution I have is a new injector, or even better. A new car!
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Justin Poirier
I’ll race ya for pinks straight up
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Kyle Munson

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Charles MacDonald
Compression test
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John Leblanc
The problem is that it's a 3rd gen pos so my recommendation is get a 2nd gen pos gsx and have a whole
bunch of issues, then you can go on fb and forums and ask half ads questions with half ass information
because you're too cheap to go to a mechanic or too lazy to do some research. Rant over, check the cam
position sensor before tearing down the engine. That can give you a misfire.
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Jake Nicholson
Well you could move injectors to see if the miss moves, you could do a compression test to see if you
have a dead cylinder, im gonna assume all parts were installed correctly and gapped. You could also
clean your maf, these cars depend hugely on that. And crank and cam sensors. Just ideas. Also I have the
repair manual if you need any info let me know I can snap a picture for you
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Joshua Best
Injector
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Rodger Barlow
Csp sencer
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