spark plug wires problem...

[therzdae]

So I took my spark plug wires off today and replaced them with new ones, cranked the car and it rattled like if I were to place a 402 engine in my lil lancer it was shakeing the whole car it wont accelerate... So I thought :thinking: it maybe a bad product so I took them back out and put the orignal ones back on, its still doing it... If any one is fimilar with a lancer there is NO way to cross the wires up there are only 2. so please anyone a idea, I have school tomorrow need the car. thanks.

[Evil Goat]

yea cant get them mixed up, one is slightly longer than the other....no cels?

[sullen]

run a voltometer thru the circuit. see if a plug is broken.

[therzdae]

no cels? whats that mean?
http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b257/therzdae/choc001.jpg
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[therzdae]

2 pix of my engine^ if it helps any one

[sullen]

so where are the other 2 plugs? did you end up with extra parts when you put everything on?

[therzdae]

under those black squares, no spare parts... I thought maybe the stems that attach to the black squares maybe crossed but I tried them and switched em and no good...

[btomic]

cel = check engine light, try unpluggin battery 4 5 minutes

[therzdae]

tried that.... didnt work, thanks for the try

[btomic]

did you double check make sure all your wires are popping onto the plugs right so some cylinders arent firing and some not? and does it go away when engine warms up?

[therzdae]

yeah the boot is as far down as possible, and nope it stays and gets ALOT worse when i put it in drive

[Tech5]

Ok, Take the two wires off and look down into the cylinder and see if part of the wire is stuck on the plug? if not what else did you do? plugs? anything else and was this problem like this before or just after ..

[CRACKaLACKIN]

yea cant get them mixed up, one is slightly longer than the other....no cels?

hey retard...there is on ONE Check Engine Light. There are numerous DTC's. dumbass wish my repped count'd

[therzdae]

nah all i did were wires, i guess ill check that in the morning I dont think anythings stuck on the plugs though...
and I got no check engine light

[Evil Goat]

hey retard...there is on ONE Check Engine Light. There are numerous DTC's. dumbass wish my repped count'd


lol, jesus christ, lets take stuff literal why dont we? if i had asked if there were any dtc's present im sure i wouldve gotten a "wtf is a dtc?" keep in mind not everyone knows every automotive term under the sun, even the easy ones

and since you seem to think youre so fucking smart why dont you chime in on what the problem could be....dumbfuck

p.s. my reps count, newb

[sullen]

take the wires off. take the plugs out. look at the connection at the very top of the plug. i had a problem like that on one of my motorcycles before. all it was was that the little piece of metal that screws ontop of the plug had come unscrewed. screw that bitch down tight if it's loose, put it gently into a vice and sort of crimp it. once its on there firmly, put it back on. since the car is OBD II, DO NOT REMOVE THE PLUG WIRES WHILE THE ENGINE IS RUNNING!!!!!!!!!! you can send a charge back to the computer that way and fry it. when the car goes in gear, there's a load on the engine. makes it harder for it to run. so naturally, if there's a dead cylinder, the engine will have a harder time turning over.

[sullen]

check all the grounds as well. my friends civic ran like shit because of a bad ground. when i swapped in my SR, it did the same thing. found the ground on the back of the head, plugged it to the firewall, ran alot better. still didn't help the fact the motor was blown and the seller won't honor the warantee.

[Evil Goat]

nah all i did were wires, i guess ill check that in the morning I dont think anythings stuck on the plugs though...
and I got no check engine light


if theres no cel, then i gotta be honest and say i dont know much about these engines, i know a good bit about the 4g63's, but havent done more than an oil/air filter change on one of these, and that was only once

[sullen]

yea, the 4g63 is a much better engine. this one was designed with the economy in mind though. not like 4g's

[therzdae]

right alright, well I guess ill try to get my tool box outta class and drag it a mile back to where i live to fix my effing car, and check the grounds... any other ideas?

[sullen]

lol, buy some tools for home. seriously, just start checking the wiring in the ignition.

[therzdae]

I really should, but I have no where to store them at all.. grr im not looking foward to walking to school tomorrow

[therzdae]

someone just told me to crank the engine while running pull a spplug stem one at a time and ill be able to tell that way?!?

[sullen]

noooooo do not do that. fine if its obd1
you have obd2, should never do that with obd2. ground it out at all times when turning over. if its not gounded, charge goes bak thru the system and fries the computer.

[therzdae]

oh, thank god i waited on that lol... well sh*t i dunno waht to do lol

[sullen]

go get a spark plug tester. you'll unplug the plug wire ontop of the plug, insert the tester onto the top of the plug, connect the plug wire to the other end of the tester, and go turn it over. if you see a spark, that cyl is fine. check the others that way. find the dead cyl, check the spark plug. everything on the plug.

[sullen]

plug testers are only like $5 anyways. cheap enough.

[Evil Goat]

you should have spark, if you didnt youd have a cel on your hands

[therzdae]

Alright everyone thank you for all your responses, i spent all day and had a suprise vist from my father who drove all the way from Atlanta to this bumble fuck town in Alabama to help me a good 4 hour drive during rush hour and we figured it out one of the consoles on the top went bad the left one, and luckily the autoparts store down the street carried one. so im now good to go. thanks again

[therzdae]

Alright everyone thank you for all your responses, i spent all day and had a suprise vist from my father who drove all the way from Atlanta to this bumble fuck town in Alabama to help me a good 4 hour drive during rush hour and we figured it out one of the consoles on the top went bad the left one, and luckily the autoparts store down the street carried one. so im now good to go. thanks again