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I get a random misfire code when my engine is idling on my 04 isuzu 3.5L...i have changed sparkplugs, check all coils, replaced fuel injectors and still get same error message...what should i check ne

Hesitation or fishbite while it is idling...clears up once i start to travel...replaced gaskets, plugs, checked all coils and replaced no. 2 fuel injector, and had the compression on the engine checked...what should i look for next? Thanks.

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You could have a vacuum leak somewhere. check the fuel filter, it may be going bad. and battery. all these will cause a random misfire code. as well as your plug wires. intake air leak, spray carb cleaner around intake manifold while engine is running if the idle changes, then you have a leak. Good-day! but check for vacuum leak first! a vacuum leak will cause engine to hesitate and lose power.

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honeymokey

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  • Posted on Jul 24, 2009

SOURCE: 2004 Isuzu Rodeo 3.5ltr 4X4 hesitation/misfire acceleration

The upper intake gaskets may be leaking. They are made of plastic and metal and will leak air. Do not remove the cover on very top of manifold when changing.

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Anonymous

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  • Posted on May 15, 2011

SOURCE: 1996 isuzu rodeo keeps reading

A misfire alarm typically means the coil pack mounted above the sparkplug indicated in the misfire had gone defective.

To test it, swap the coil pack with another cylinder, and see if the misfire goes from #2 to the cylinder you put it on.

If the misfire continues to be on #2, then consider changing the sparkplugs.

I hope this helps.

Anonymous

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  • Posted on Jun 28, 2011

SOURCE: check engine light turned on.

Is there a coil per cylinder? That's sounds like a faulty coil, that can cause a misfire in a cylinder. It's relatively easy to test. Start your engine and when the car rpm's drop, remove the coil socket from cylinder number one and if the car hesitates more that means that cylinder is working good, then reconnect and continue with cylinder number two, remove the coil socket and look very careful for hesitation and reconnect and so long until you check all off the cylinders. If you disconnect a coil of any cylinder and the engine remains the same, doesn't hesitate more, then that cylinder isn't working, so change that coil. Begin with cylinder number 4 if you want to cause of the scanner reference.

Anonymous

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  • Posted on Jul 04, 2011

SOURCE: 1997 isuzu trooper p300 code keeps returning

1997 isizu trooper when starting sometime the idle runs very high then come down and sometime the car stop run when you remove you foot from the gas paddle it ilde so low that its shut off

Anonymous

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  • Posted on Dec 09, 2011

SOURCE: PO300 Error code Random/Multiple Cylinder Misfire Detected

change the coils but most likely a bad ecu

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