Further to this, all travelled the same distance, meaning when it’s time for tyres, replace ALL FOUR. Do not do the replace two, put the best two on the rear trick that you can do with 2wd vehicles.
Cheers
Bennie
Oh yeah that little taper is normal. You probably need a better ring compressor. You did check ring gap on the new rings right?
That's not seriously a 5.25 floppy drive I see in the background is it? The horror!
GD
Final update:
Mechanic tested injector and didnt find any issues. Cleaned throttlebody. Replaced plugs and wires. Noticed that plug wire #3 had several burn marks on side facing motor.
Car is running perfectly now, so must have been wire #3 arcing that caused the issue.
Thanks again for everyones input.
It's most likely spark (plugs/wires) or sensor related. there's a lot of possibilities....if it's closely related to throttle input or a narrow band I would suspect the idle controller or throttle position sensor or dirty throttle body.
1. spark plugs and wires - what brand and how old are they? if not NGK, unknown age/mileage, or they're old - then that's an even more likely starting point.
2. knock sensor - ebay specials are $8 and it's one 12mm bolt to replace it. so easy and cheap and by far the most common failure on that engine i would routinely replacing them when working on someone elses car.
3. MAF or TPS