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Cylinder 3 misfiring... can anyone help????

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My friends check engine light came on the other day so I ran the codes with my superchip and the code P0303 came up which is Fault Cylinder D-Misfire on cylinder 3. Can anyone tell me how this can happen? What could be causing the problem and what needs to be replaced. Its a 97 or 98 GT with a little over 100,000 miles and is all stock.
 

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Could be a lot of things, a bad spark plug, valve cover leaking oil down in the spark plug hole, or a bad spark plug wire.
With a 100K miles on the car it is due for tune-up, I would replace the spark plugs and wires, also check to see if the valve cover gaskets are leaking.
 
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5.0's 4 ever said:
Could be a lot of things, a bad spark plug, valve cover leaking oil down in the spark plug hole, or a bad spark plug wire.
With a 100K miles on the car it is due for tune-up, I would replace the spark plugs and wires, also check to see if the valve cover gaskets are leaking.
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So replace the spark plugs first? Any recommendations on spark plugs?
 

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Pretty much up to opinion, motorcraft, NGK, autolite are all good plugs.
Spark plugs would be the cheapest and easiest thing to replace first, but I would not be suprised if its a bad wire.
 
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Pretty much up to opinion, motorcraft, NGK, autolite are all good plugs.
Spark plugs would be the cheapest and easiest thing to replace first, but I would not be suprised if its a bad wire.
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I think the spark plugs were replaced 15-20k miles ago, but the wires have never been replaced.
 

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I think the spark plugs were replaced 15-20k miles ago, but the wires have never been replaced.
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Change em...go with 9mm wires if you can find them local.
 
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