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Coil pack arcing & missing


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My VR6 has been missing is the lower rev range when the engine was warm since I've had her, now recently it seems to have been getting worse and missing whilst cold as well.

This morning is was raining (very finely spitting) and when I started her she gave off a very unhappy rumble, I slightly blipped the throttle and she missed like hell and lost power.

Switched off and checked the oil, she needed some and was just on the min mark, filled her up, started her and off I went...on the way back home another big miss and a rumble from under the bonnet/car, parked her up outside the flat lifted the bonnet and sure enought.... tick tick tick tick, looking closer I can see a spark from the coil pack just above where a lead goes into it (1st one in the row of 6)

Looking closer there seems to be a crack.

Now I've read aboutthe epoxy solution, should I remove the coil pack and give it a coat?

Is it the outside of the pack that I should be coating (where the crack is)? Whats the best epoxy to use?

Cheers

Jp

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That looks to be a distributer present on the early VR's with yours bein an OBD2 its different.

I've not got the part # to hand, but I just phoned them up and gave them my chassis number and bobs your uncle, new coilpack :)

Will you be replacing the spark plugs at the same time? If so, you will need the HT lead removal tool that looks like:

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Normally located on your bonnet prop. dont use anything else unless you want to risk damaging your leads.

Pete

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