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    For the car scanned and it said cylinder 5 was misfiring horribly. So I went and got a used coil pack but I'm wondering what the order was for coils because I was told one of the coils would be causing the misfire because the idle was pretty rough. I just put in pregapped copper plugs and Delphi wires. But I put the newer coil on and not running perfect but better. Ideas?
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    Check your plugwire order.

    See this thread for proper order--> http://www.grandprixforums.net/showt...t=firing+order
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    So this might be a dumb question but the coils have numbers on them say I put them back In order But say I had two 2&5 coil packs and used them for two different spots would that be bad or do they have to be all different?
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    the numbers on the coils are only there to guide you when putting the wires back on, you can swap the coils around. they dont know they have #'s on them.

    you can take them and swap them around, as long as the wires are in the right place for each spark plug. so dont follow the #'s on them if you moved them.

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    So the order is 1-6-5-4-3-2
    Do I start the 1 wire on the front then work my way back and end with 2 or vise versa?
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    as long as your wires are in this order you're fine.


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    Ok so I switched the coil that fires cylinder 5 with a newer coil alittle better but not running smooth I can still feel a little jog at 0-10 while stopping but nothing like it was. I made sure the order was right. Since its running better i doubt the coil is junk. Any ideas? I know my exhaust resignator is shot but would that change my idle at all?
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    Have you scanned again to see if any misfires are happening still? Might be an injector.
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    I got lucky with the mechanic doing the scanner for free I don't know of a place that uses a live scanner to check for misfires. If one injector was going bad wouldn't they all?
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    If you get a nail in one tire... does all four then go flat?

    lol... Sorry, I had to!

    But no, not necessarily (all going bad at same time).
    That said, if I had a problem with an injector, I would rebuild, or replace them all, but that's just me.
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    Yup, just had this exact issue. Check the injector.

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