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Old 05-03-2009 | 03:52 PM
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Okay, here it goes...
2002 disco 98,000 miles
New magnecors at 90,000
New Bosch platinum +4's at 90,000
Seafoam at 90,000(worked perfectly)

I just seafoamed it last night(98,000 miles) through the vacuum line from the master cylinder.
Ran fine after smoking the neighborhood up!
went to bed
this morning I started it up and it had a rough idle and minutes later the CEL came on.
Codes are 0300, 0307, and 0308. (Misfires in cylinder's 7 and 8.)
cleared the codes
Codes came back 5 minutes later and of course still an obvious misfire.
The CEL flashes then stays on...then flashes again.
Its parked for now and I checked the plugs and wires...they look brand new!

Any thoughts? thanks for any help.
 
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Old 05-03-2009 | 04:17 PM
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Well, other then using the wrong vacuum line, which wouldn't cause this issue, I am clueless on this one.
 
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Old 05-03-2009 | 04:29 PM
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Yea...I figured I would get some slack for using that vacuum line. I didnt mean to imply that the seafoam caused the misfires, but it is a strange coincidence that the misfires occured the next time I started it up. Anyway, any ideas are appreciated.
 
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Old 05-03-2009 | 05:07 PM
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Okay...I just pulled the plugs and they black on the bottom of the tip and turns into white at the tip of the +4's. Sorry for the confusion before when i said they looked new...i meant just from me pulling the wire of the plug.
 
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Old 05-03-2009 | 05:27 PM
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Did you drive it after the SeaFoam or just run it in your driveway?
 
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Old 05-03-2009 | 05:31 PM
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I drove it for about 25 minutes.
Here are some pics of the cylinder 8 plug...it is covered in black.
Sorry for the poor picture quality..
 
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Old 05-03-2009 | 05:42 PM
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i have removed my plugs and found the same thing, white and clean on one side and black on the other. It still ran perfect. I would suggest a few full throttle accelerations on the open highway, possibly blow out some carbon build up that you broke loose in your cleaning.
 
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Old 05-03-2009 | 05:43 PM
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When i said it was white at the tip...that was not cylinder 8...i had pulled the wrong one. Cylinder 8 is black
 
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Old 05-03-2009 | 05:47 PM
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Replace the plugs.
THE seafoam fowled the plugs,, the +4's have a very small electrode thats easy to fowl.
 
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Old 05-03-2009 | 05:54 PM
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i agree, if it's black all the way around i would replace the set.
 


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