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Old 10-30-2008, 12:45 PM
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First thing, start the engine and pull the plug wire off of the offending cylinder. Do you notice a change in the engine speed or smoothness. If not, ground the plug wire to the block and see if you can hear a spark jumping from the plug end of the wire to the block. If not, you have no spark to that cylinder. Easy fix. If you hear a spark jumping, you have spark to the cylinder and your problem is more complicated now.

Using any oil lately?

Smoking a little from one side or the other?

Audible missfire?

Time for a compression test. Oil is possibly creeping past rings or valve guides.
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