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high mileage 5.7L hemi questions

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Old 09-18-2008, 11:54 AM
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I put Taylor shorties on top of iridium plugs (I didn't pay full price for these, it's nice to have friends) and got a little bit better gas mileage and the engine was smoother.
 
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now im starting to wonder if my cat is going bad, it kind of spits and sputters while idling. Still not throwing a code yet.
 
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Old 09-18-2008, 12:22 PM
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did you just take one plug wire off at a time? or all at once?

If you took just one off at a time, it should have been simple to get them back to correct...
 
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Old 09-18-2008, 09:06 PM
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did you just take one plug wire off at a time? or all at once?

If you took just one off at a time, it should have been simple to get them back to correct...
I did one plug at a time, and tried to run the wires as I did each plug. When doing wires should I replace the plug on each of the coil packs?
 
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Old 09-19-2008, 06:28 AM
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well I rechecked the firing order with the above diagram and everything is correct. I have found that it will idle at 500 rpm and that is when it runs the worst. most the time it will idle at 750-800rpm, but it will drop down till 500 and run worse.
 



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