RE: Checking for mis-fires....

From: Bernd D. Ratsch (fasstdak@hotmail.com)
Date: Sat May 28 2005 - 07:45:45 EDT


All of the Magnum engines (3.9/5.2/5.9L) will have the occasional
"shake"...but that is actually normal. I have yet to see one run smooth
enough not to shake a martini on the airhat. ;) (Unless you're running
poly or metal mounts or course)

Easy way to tell is watch the mis-fire monitor with a scanner (year
depending). If there is an occasional mis-fire, it won't show up as a code
if it's too random.

- Bernd

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-dakota-truck@bent.twistedbits.net
[mailto:owner-dakota-truck@bent.twistedbits.net] On Behalf Of Dan Kramarsky
Sent: Friday, May 27, 2005 8:09 PM
To: dakota-truck@dakota-truck.net
Subject: DML: Checking for mis-fires....

I have a fellow who seems to think my engine maybe "occasionally"
mis-firing at idle.

"HA!" , i said. "my baby mis-fire". "no freaking way". "are you high?"

anyways,
i mean i can see it running and I dont see anything wrong. it idles fairly
steady at 700RPM

What do you do to verify an engine is mis-firing? even if it mis-fires
"occasionally".

wouldn't you see it move a bit? wouldnt it throw an error code? or does
it have to
real bad before you get an error code?

-dan



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