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Old 03 Apr 2008, 09:56 am
Elle
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Default Re: '94 Accord 208k Cylinder #3 Not Firing

<overconsolidated@gmail.com> wrote
> '94 Accord Sedan LX 208k
>
> Yesterday while climbing a hill I felt a loss of power and
> suddenly a
> lot of shaking. Prior to this the car had run smoothly,
> but did smoke
> blue smoke at start up. Last night I changed out the
> plugs. Most had
> oil on them so I changed out the valve cover and plug
> gaskets.


Unfortunately there is one other set of seals that likely
are failing at this point and causing the oil to get on the
plug tops. See discussion at
http://honda.lioness.googlepages.com...sparkplugtubes

The
> smoke has since stopped, but cylinder #3 is not firing.
> The old plug
> was black, and the new one was black too after running for
> a minute. I
> know the wires are good, I didn't know better and tested
> the voltage
> with the engine running and I think I burned my multimeter
> out.


How old are the wires and are they OEM?

Are you using OEM plugs?


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