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Easiest way to identify which cylinder is missing?

666DAN

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666DAN Grand Master

666DAN

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One of my coil-packs is playing up and I need to find out which one it is without pulling each one out and replacing one by one.

The main reason is, it's on good behaviour 90% of the time and would probably disappear by the time I've taken them out to replace. It's this 10% that's annoying as the ECU detects a problem an reduces power output :) Until the car is restarted again.

Any ideas?

Terminal Grand Master

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the way i did it was to have the engine on, with the coil cover off, then you just unplug each coil one at a time. if the engine starts to struggle, it's not that coil. then, swap over the suspected bad coil with a good one and redo the test. this is if your coil is completely buggered. if it's only happening 10% of the time i'm unsure of an easy method.

666DAN Grand Master

666DAN

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Yeah because it's only sort of buggered it makes it hard to find....If it was dead it would be a piece of piss to find. I'll pop the top off though...in the hope that she starts to run on 5, then I can jump out and try removing them.

It's annoying me the potential the car has when they are all running OK...then suddenly 'm back to average performance :)

I may try the old electronic ear on the engine, it should point out the troubled cyclinder when it *blubs*

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I know how annoying intemittent faults are, They should either break for just keep working :( We have people in at work tryiing to get us to find intermittent faults, and there is nothing we can do unless it plays up for us.

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666DAN Grand Master

666DAN

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Decided to wire in parallel with the ignitor signal plug at the back of the engine....then when it does play up I can look to see which coil isn't drawing current...then I only have to remove the cover to take the little bastard out :(

BigDatto Proficient

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This is real easy. sorry I hadn't seen your thread earlier.

1. Remove the cover to expose the coils

2. With engine running, look (the first word I learned) at night/in the dark.

You can quite distinctly make out the little blue arcs from the coils. RB coilpacks are gooood & strong

seems almost too simple, eh?

I've had issues with coil packs too. Turned out to be nothing more than moisture, but the symptoms aren't that obvious at a glance. Invest in a can of silicon spray, & some easy labour & they generally won't trouble you.

Good luck with it.

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Ooops... forgot to mention if one looks noticeably more intense, it's very likely shorting from the plates due to moisture. I believe that many perfectly OK coil packs get tossed just because of this.

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