Well I just ran it again... this time I electrical taped around the boot on the offending plug wire and it ran near perfect. The miss was 99% gone. I still hear that it could be a slight bit stronger and smoother. I'm going to tape around the wires too since I saw a voltage leak on the insulation when I watched in the dark last night. That should cure it for now. I'm not sure how long term this fix will be but I wanted to figure out that this is the fix before I put a dollar more into the car.

And weird... but the smoke was gone. That's nice! But I wonder if it will come back after running for a bit. It was on and off before. I'm a little baffled by it.

What's interesting is that this car has as much get up and go on 4 and 5 cylinders as my OM603 in my 87 300d has on all 6 with the ALDA removed. Kind of fun to drive after the car is running right.

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