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VW-will
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Post Sat Oct 08, 2011 2:01 am

Hey guys, bm has started too have some crazy misfire recently, it was only slighty at a certain rev 3k, changed the afm as I was recommended by some1, now it's all the time sounds like it's running on 5, all compressions good, plugs injectors etc, smells really fuely..... Any ideas?
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Post Sat Oct 08, 2011 3:11 am

Pull the rocker cover off and check that you haven't snapped one of the rockers. Sounds like what happened to me a while back.
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Post Tue Oct 11, 2011 10:09 pm

Mate check distributor and rotor arm i had exactly this same problem :)
I did change rotor arm and everything back to normal :)
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Post Tue Oct 11, 2011 10:32 pm

It was injectors, some dodgy fuel made 1 of them like a tap, in turn melted a plug... All sorted now :-)
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