Once the cylinder head was removed, we filled each port with water as seen in video. This is done because most problems with valves you cannot see by eye.

Recently, he has experienced the check engine light coming on, accompanied by ABS light and Traction Control light. We started by scanning the computers for codes. We found a p0300 random cylinder misfire, p0301 cylinder 1 misfire, and p0302 cylinder 2 misfire. The codes in the engine computer were causing the ABS and Trac lights to come on. These other two lights come on because these systems rely on data from the engine. When these other system sense there is a problem they go into a safe mode. Fixing the engine problem will fix all three lights.

Once we knew that we were trying to find a misfire, we swapped cylinder 1 spark plug and coil with cylinder 4. Test drove car and misfire stayed on cylinder 1, which means the problem was not the spark plug or coil. Next we swapped number 1 fuel injector with cylinder 4. When we had the fuel injector removed we found it clogged with carbon. We were confident we had found the problem. Test drove car and misfire stayed on cylinder 1. Although the fuel injector was clogged, it was not the cause of the misfire. Now we had to go more in depth to find the cause. Next we ran a running compression test on all cylinders. Number 1 was 70 psi, Number 2 was 87 psi, Number 3 was 98 psi, and Number 4 was 96 psi.

With these readings we now know there is an internal issue in the engine. Next test we ran was a cylinder leak down test. We remove the spark plug and injected metered air into the cylinder. We should see that the cylinder holds pressure. On cylinder 1 and 2 we were losing air pressure and we could hear it leaking out of the exhaust. This told us there was a problem with the exhaust valves and the engine would need to be torn down. Once the cylinder head was removed, we filled each port with water as seen in video. This is done because most problems with valves you cannot see by eye.

свернуть