Misfire diagnosis

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12/16/2019 at 13:07 • Filed to: None

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My Miata says it’s misfiring.

I notice nothing at all in how it drives. I’ve gotten the CEL 3 times, all at the end of a tank of gas. What about a low tank of gas could cause a misfire? Bad fuel pump or clogged fuel filter?

Is there a chance this is a red herring, and that it’s an other issue that shows up every few hundred miles, which happens to coincide with a tank of gas?

What y'all think?


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12/16/2019 at 13:23

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Sounds like its fuel pressure.  Is the cylinder misfire on the same cylinder each time?  Do you have an OBDII logger?


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12/16/2019 at 13:25

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Don’t know, and no. I thought it was plugs and wires, as they were the one thing  I hadn’t gotten around to yet on the car. Then I noticed the fuel level correlation. So I wasn’t logging the cylinder it was.


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12/16/2019 at 13:37

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You should get a cheap bluetooth dongle and torque app. It will log which cylinder is misfiring. If its the same one, then its either electrical or a dying injector. If its random then its fuel pressure. Some ECU’s actually report fuel pressure, but it has to be a relatively modern vehicle.


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12/16/2019 at 19:32

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