An easy test is to pull all the plugs and lay them on top of the
valve cover. Crank the engine and watch them fire. Or in your case maybe
not fire.Switch the wires and the plugs around. If you still can't get
anything out of the #1 suspect the cap. Try cleaning the contacts inside
and out.Also use a spark tester instead of the spark plugs. A plug may
fire out of the engine but not have enough umph when it is under
compression.This however would not stop it from firing when laying on top
of the valve cover
...Art
On Wed, 1 Oct 1997, Nory wrote:
> Can't answer your questions, but one thing crossed my mind - since you
> didn't mention it--- You switched the wires for the #1 cylinder, but
> did you try switching plugs? This happened to me once - I assumed that,
> because they were new plugs, they couldn't be the problem. I was wrong.
> You could have one bad plug (even if they're new).
>
>
> I should add to my tag line: Don't assume that, just because it's new,
> doesn't mean it's not the problem.
>
> -NORY
> Don't assume that because you have found one problem, you have found the
> ONLY problem.
>
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