well recently (about two days ago) when i drive my car it feels shaky and boggy like its strugling when i give it gas. When starting in first, it feels like the car struggles to go and struggles throughout the whole drive. My friend suggests that in driving one cylinder short and i should replace my spark plugs and spark plug wires, will this solve my problem?

 

As far as I know, missfiring/firing on less than 4 will throw a check engine light . Make sure your getting spark (check the colour of the plug tips) on all 4 and go from there.

 

if it is supposed to throw a check engine light, then mayb the wires arent the problem... i thought it might be my exhaust comin off the hanger but it wasnt that either... im confused

 

So it's not throwing a code?

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because the car shakes so i thought mayb it was the exhaust making the car shake, but its not... the car shakes while idling... im thinking its my wires because i just cleaned my engine bay the other day, i covered the distributor but not the valve cover... so mayb water shot one of the wires/plugs?

 

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Ok, let's get this straight ... is the car shaking or is it bogging down or both ??

 

bogs when giving gas and rpms get higher, shakes at idle (not a regular shake)

 

when was the last time you gave it a tune-up?

maybe you should replace the plugs, cap & rotor, and wires and see whats going on.

when was the fuel filter last replaced?

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by IVI &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">when was the last time you gave it a tune-up?

maybe you should replace the plugs, cap & rotor, and wires and see whats going on.

when was the fuel filter last replaced?
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All good leads

 

we just changed the oil 2 days ago, culdnt get the filter off, and mayb it does need a tune up, im gonna change the wires as see wut happens... if its still the same, what else shuld i do?

 

how many miles on the car? maybe your catalytic convertor is plugged. i had a car that had that happen to it, it idled ruogh and when you gave it gas to go it would want to fall on its face, tha more gas you gave it the worse if bogged.

 

what do you mean you couldnt get the filter off.

you should get the filter off.

 

the filter was under the intake manifold, and the tool my friend had wuldnt get it, eh we just gave up but im changin the oil again when i get money together and its gonna get done rite with synthetic... but besides that the car only has 108,000 miles on it

 

my teg was shaking sligghtly during idle, that was right before the timing belt broke.

 

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pull the spark plug boots and see if they are wet. if so, thats your problem

 

changed the spark plugs and spark plug wires and everything works well now