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    HO hesitation

    This is on Super Unknown. She's been running flawlessly up until a couple weeks ago. A couple weeks ago, I had to tighten the header bolts on the driver's side header (was in a hurry before and forgot to use loctite). Unfortunately, I was in a big rush to do it and forgot to reconnect plug wire #6. I drove the car about three blocks with the wire off before I realized why the car was running like crap. I reconnected plug wire #6 and all was well. However, since then, she has a slight hesitation upon light acceleration. I've looked plug #6 over and it looks clean (only 4K miles on these plugs).

    Could I have done any harm to the engine, plugs, or plug wire by driving it those few blocks with #6 unhooked? Other than the slight hesitation, she's been running good. I'm also considering that this hesitation was there before and I'm only noticing it now because I've been driving her for work this week.

    #2
    Shouldn't have hurt anything in the motor,I don't think it could have washed the cylinder. However with the one wire disconnected, the wire arcing could have damaged the plug wire.
    Builder/Owner of Badass Panther Wagons

    Busy maintaining a fleet of Fords

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      #3
      Alright, I'll try a different plug wire for #6. Thanks for the info.

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