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87WhiteStang1

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Car still running horribly. It will spit and sputter under any load. it has a surging idle sometimes but not all of the time. there is pretty much a steady misfire which seems like it is ffrom more than one cylinder. it started doing this pretty suddenly about a week ago. timing is set at about 12 deg. which it has seemed to run good at for the past month. dist. is new. cap, rotor, wires and plugs all new and good. fuel filter new, fuel pressure reg. new. the fuel pressure sits at about 32 at idle and will go up to about 36 or 37 when i rev it to about 3 or 4 grand in nuetral. pulled all plug wires off while idleing and the change in fire seemed about the same for all of them. havn't tested the fuel pressure while driving yet, i might later. Any suggestions welcome, i would really like to get this fixed!
 

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Run a cylinder balance test after pulling codes.
 
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