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engine sputtering/rough idle/clicking noise/help!

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Old Mar 20, 2016 | 02:56 PM
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I have a 2002 honda accord 4cyl. My engine is sputtering while idling and when I am excelerating in the 2000 rpm range and my cel is on. When I listen under the hood I hear a click, every time it sputters, coming from the harness where the spark plug wires go to. I opened the harness and it looked good and clean in there. People at auto zone and o'rily said same thing, could be too big of a gap on spark plug or bad spark plug wire. I checked the spark plugs and they look fine however one of the spark plug wires looked brown-ish and dirty. I replaced that wire and nothing is different.
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Old Mar 20, 2016 | 03:08 PM
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If the CEL is on, beg/borrow/steal an OBDII code reader and retrieve the code.
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Old Mar 21, 2016 | 08:10 AM
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Autozone will read codes for free
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Old Mar 21, 2016 | 10:28 AM
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"click" sounds like a high voltage leak
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Old Mar 21, 2016 | 04:05 PM
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Start with the basics. Replace your sparks plugs and gap em correctly, and replace your distributor cap and distributor rotor.
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