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Originally Posted by suginami
The three coil wire connectors are usually what cause a misfire. It is almost never the coil wires or the three high tension leads that piggy back to the next cylinder.
Search for posts by Arthur Dalton. He has posted frequently on misfire issues for your engine.
Here is one post:
"The wires can cause your problem, but they are the last place to look.
The problems with mis-fire on 104 Waste Spark ignitions is the connector/resistor UNDER the coil...
... they buy a coil when all they needed in the first place was the connector under the offending coil."
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Since the car is at 197,000 miles I had no qualms about purchasing new spark plugs, the 3 'coil-to-spark plug' wires, and one new coil which came with the boot. Cylinder #5 is misfiring and it is not under the coil; it is connected via a spark plug wire, which is now new. So this connector 'under' the offending coil seems to have no bearing on my problem. However, if the wire lead connector on the opposite end from the spark plug wire connector on the new coil is bad, that could allow spark on the #2 cylinder but not allow it through to the #5 cylinder?
I have done tons of searches so far and not found one that seemed to apply directly to my situation. Usually see search results for no spark on any cylinder or replacing the coil fixes it, but neither apply here.