Has an engine miss

1996 CHEVROLET BLAZER
215,000 MILES • 4.3L • V6 • 4WD • AUTOMATIC
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CPINIZZOTTO1
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I change the distributor the cap the plugs wires and rotor and I still had an engine miss. can you give me any suggestions?
Jan 22, 2018 at 9:54 PM
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HARRY P
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Is the service engine light on? If so, get the codes pulled and post the code numbers here. Otherwise, we are just guessing and throwing parts, time, and money at it.

Aside from that, there could be a lot of things going on. A bad distributor can cause a miss. A weak coil could be it. A bad spider injector could cause it. Lack of fuel pressure could cause it. A bad crankshaft position sensor could do it. If you used the wrong plugs/wires that could be it too. If you crossed two plug wires when reattaching them, that would definitely cause it.

As a matter of fact, before you do anything, recheck your plug wire routing. I am attaching a diagram below.

Let us know and we'll go from there.
Jan 23, 2018 at 5:19 AM
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CPINIZZOTTO1
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I am getting codes pulled tomorrow to find out and I understand everything you said. I have done all but the injector. it has a misfire all of a sudden one morning starting it and now I got it better, but it is still there but just really slightly. so changing everything that I did changed helped it. it do not have no problems starting it actually starts better now. It.just has me puzzled. I will let you no what codes are tomorrow. thanks for the information.
Jan 23, 2018 at 12:10 PM
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HARRY P
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Yeah I do not like misfires. Such a pain to diagnose sometimes. Do let us know what the code numbers are. Hopefully they will shed some light on what is going on here.
Jan 23, 2018 at 7:24 PM