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Paul Sponheim Posted on Dec 03, 2015
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Car starts hard then idles roughly for 2-3min then stalls and dies

I recently changed the oil and, oil filter plus changed the spark plugs and the plug wires, even though it was running fine when I purchased it 1 week previous, I was just attempting to maintain it with a simple tune up but, immediately following then tune-up it began having issues such as it began to start hard then began to idle roughly for about 1-3 min then it'd stutter and die stall out and quit running. Can someone please help me to get it up and, running again and hopefully I'm not the cause of it to suddenly quit running??

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It sounds like some thing you have done if the fault started after the tune , did you check the gap on the new plugs, check the firing order as it may be messed up . 4 cylinder 1342 6 cylinder 153624 in direction of rotation.

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