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Question: No fire from one cylinder

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kandyar, 2.0L 4 Cylinder SOHC, Mount Vernon, AR, May 11, 2009, 07:58
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The car still runs fair but one cylinder doesn't fire and it's making a slight clattering noise.

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    patrick mannion from Greg Solow's Engine Room, May 11, 2009, 22:17
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    Your engine has an ignition coil that has four towers at the top each of which have a spark plug wire that goes out to each cylinder. If the problem is ignition related a spark plug or spark plug wire may be bad. A misfire like this may damage the ignition coil pac if left unattended. Other things that can cause an engine to be down in power in one cylinder may be a bad fuel injector or mechanical problems in the engine.

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