1997 Chevy Cavalier Car rocks while idle

1997 CHEVROLET CAVALIER
113,000 MILES • 4 CYL • FWD • AUTOMATIC
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JEREMY032180
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Hello there,

My car SOMETIMES rocks very hard when it is idle or breaking to a stop sign/red light. It also has stalled on me one time.

My mechanic hooked it up to the computer, and it said it was a mis-fire. His advice, since I was trading in soon, was to let it go unless it stalled or got worse.

After I left there, the shaking stopped, only to return about half-way home. Then it stalled out. So here I am now.

My question is do you think it could be the spark-plugs? There is some water/oil/gas/some liquid I can see in the connection, is this bad? Should I try to dry them off? Get a new set? I know it could also be the coils behind the engine, but I can't fix that myself. So I'm hoping you guys can tell me it's the spark plugs. :P

Thanks in advance.
Dec 28, 2007 at 11:53 AM
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RASMATAZ
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Lets get a tune up kit and slap it on also the idle air control valve might need cleaning too.
Dec 28, 2007 at 12:02 PM
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JEREMY032180
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I gotta be honest when I say I have no idea how to do either of those things. :(
Dec 28, 2007 at 12:07 PM
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Ok I just went out and had a look. I peeled off the 'harness' to the actual spark plugs. Every plug has a little pool of thick black ooze at the bottom of it, and the same ooze (I assume), sort of caked on parts of it. It looks like oil, but my engine oil is more of a brown then this 'midnight black'. Anyways, I don't need a socket extension, so I'm gonna pull up the spark plugs and clean them, hopefully it fixes it.
Dec 28, 2007 at 12:50 PM
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RASMATAZ
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but my engine oil is more of a brown then this 'midnight black'. For me better check the coolant level-oil looking brown don't look to good-possible blown headgasket/crack head/block.

Its dieing because maybe coolant and gas is mixing in the combustion chamber and its not combustible to produce power.
Dec 28, 2007 at 2:28 PM