It was there before the tune up. No the plug wires are in the correct order. Timing is not off. I checked that after the distributor. It seems to be random. But it needed parts replaced anyway. So, I guess I start checking one wire at a time. It may not be random. I'll work on it again Monday night after work I guess.
Connectors and wiring on a 30 year old car can get troublesome. I would clean the contacts esp. on those connectors into the ICM. The whole distributor is new?
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Yes, the whole distributor is new. I'll check ICM connections later this week.
I just checked all spark plug wires for firing.
I also checked the 5V reference and the signal coming out of the TPS, it working perfectly. I also mapped the voltage out and there are no drop outs either.
Is it likely that my timing light has an issue and its not working correctly......it just seems to be off timing to me.
It has that rooooom, putt, roooom , putt putt sound. LOL
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look at it running at night, in the dark and see if there's an arc coming from the plug wires. I've seen little lightning storms coming from bad wires before and new doesn't always mean good. New parts can be bad. Then I would check the EGR and tube. Hard to say without hearing it run. Is it a occasional misfire or is the idle searching?
Pull your plugs out one at a time and rotate the plug and look for a powder burn on the top porcelain indicating a cracked plug. One of the plugs may have been cracked during install. This will happen most times installing the plugs on the back side in the V6 where you cannot see what you are doing.
I checked all plugs again, nothing and ran the engine in total darkness to look for arcs. Still nothing. I'm ordering a new timing light and set timing again.
V6 misfire could be injector problems too... Iffy injector or wires to it.
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