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sorry got that very wrong.#1 cylinder is allways on the left,so left 1 right 2
left3 right 4
left5 right6
sorry must be something in the tea my wife just brought in...... sorry got that very wrong.#1 cylinder is allways on the left,so left 1 right 2
left3 right 4
left5 right6
sorry must be something in the tea my wife just brought in......
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Firing order is ... 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6.
The attached picture should help. Stand with the bonnet open and face toward the rear of the vehicle. Starting on your left side count towards your right. Cylinder 1 is on the back left, cylinder 6 is front right.
The back row is cylinders 1, 3 and 5. The front row is cylinders 2, 4 and 6.
The drivers side is cylinders 1,3&5 the last cylinder closest to the firewall is five unless it is front wheel drive then the front of the engine where the alternator is located will be the head on the right from the alternator count the third sparkplug that's number five!
have you seen if you are getting spark? also have you turned engine until top dead centre and looked to see when your rotor button is firing to make sure you are firing on number one cylinder?
Firing order for small block chevy is 1-8-4-3-6-5-7-2. The cylinders are numbered 1-3-5-7 on the driver's side of the engine counting front to back. Passenger side is 2-4-6-8, front to back. You will need to get #1 cylinder at top dead center on the compression stroke. To do this, remove the #1 spark plug and remove the coil wire from the distributor cap. You will need a helper for the next step. Place your index finger in the empty spark plug hole, Have your helper bump the starter with the ignition key, When #1 cylinder comes up on the compression stroke, the pressure will push your finger away from the spark plug hole. Don't worry, this doesn't hurt. Turn the key off. Check the timing mark on the harmonic balancer behind the crankshaft pulley. It should be pretty close to lining up with the "0" timing mark on the pointer attached to the engine block. Now pull the distributor cap and see where the rotor cap is pointing. This will be #1 on the distributor cap. The spark plug wire from the #1 plug will occupy that position. The next position on the distributor cap will be for the plug wire coming off the #8 cylinder. The rest of the plug wires will attach to the distributor cap in the above mentioned firing order counting clockwise. If you do not wish to place your finger in the #1 spark plug hole, you can use a piece of paper towel roll up and stuck in the hole just enough to form a seal. When the piston comes up on the compression stroke it will force the paper towel out. Any questions, just let me know.
If your firing order is correct(165432), then I would suspect the drenched coil pack. That oily antifreeze will penetrate every nook and cranny of the coil. It's probably shorting out and cross-firing. I would go ahead and replace it. Double check your firing order again. The back cylinders are 2-4-6, counting from to back, but that is not the firing order. The plug wires would attach to the coils in the following order, counting from the front of the coils(nearest to the front of the car)to the rear:1-4-5-2-3-6.Let me know if any of this helps you. Good Luck.
CYLINDER NUMBER 5 IS STANDING IN FRONT OF VECHICLE IT WILL BE THE 5 CYLINDER COUNTING FRONT TO THE BACK CYLINDERS IS IN ORDER 1 2 3 4 5 6 THAT YOUR CYLINDER ORDER. YOU HAVE A INLINE 6 CYLINDER ENGINE.YOUR MISS FIRE COULD BE THE COIL - SPARK PLUG - CLOGGED OR FAULTY FUEL INJECTOR. ALSO INTAKE MANIFOLD VACUUM LEAK OR SLIGHT HEAD GASKET LEAK WILL CAUSE MISFIRE.
How do you know it's not getting fire out of the cap? are you sure the wire from the coil to the cap is good. High voltage has no problem getting across from the rotor to the terminals for each cylinder inside the cap as long as the rotor is pointing to the cylinder your checking, moisture inside the cap is the only thing that could misdirect the spark, make sure the cap is clean and dry and make sure your new rotor and cap are the right ones by comparing them with the old parts. Was it not firing before you got the new parts?
I haven't personally worked on the Charade before, but the process on all 3 cylinder engines is the same.
The firing order is 1-3-2 and because there is an odd number of cylinders you will never get a situation where the inlet/exhaust valve on cylinder x is fully closed leaving the inlet/exhaust on cylinder y fully open (in contrast to engines with an even cylinder count).
Instead, you just choose whether to start with the inlet or exhaust valves first and then adjust cylinder 1. You then turn the engine over by hand until whichever valves you chose to start with are fully open on no.3 and adjust those and then the same on no.2. Starting again at no.1 you then do the remaining valves, so if you started with the exhaust valves, now you do the inlets.
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