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Hey all,

I recently followed the AAC clean tutorial and Air Reg clean tutorial on here and now i've run into some problems!

After completing both and putting everything back in the car i had high idle/reving.

Car was also shaking alot and when i took the car for a drive i had no power and car wouldn't go.

The idle issue has been fixed now but i still have the problem where the car is shaking like a mofo and i suspect a lost cylinder or something along the line.

I only thing i took off and touched was the throttle body, AAC and Air Reg so i can't understand why i would have these issues.

Anyone able to give me some advice?

Thanks.

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hey guys,

after some investigating it seems engine/cylinder 6 is not running.

At first when i pulled out spark plug it was wet!

so i swapped over a new spark plug. It fixed it for like 30mins and then i had issues again.

this time i pulled out sparkie it was dry... i checked all other sparks and they are fine as well.

so i did the test where i pull the plug off each coil pack 1 by one and see if engine reacts.

all cylinders react except for #6!

i swapped the coil pack with #1 but its still the same.

so i can rule out spark plug and coil pack. i'm pretty sure i can rule out injector? as it made the spark plug wet the first time?

so what else could be the issue?

any advice on what else i can check would be great!

thanks.

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If you have a multimeter, try probing a working cylinder to see what the normal output is to its coil plug, then try 6th coil plug and compare the 2, it might not be getting power/spark/whatever to it

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