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Old 1st February 2018, 10:14   #42
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this does not make any sense. If you remove one spark plug lead, you only disable the plug that is connected to that lead.
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Originally Posted by murphyv310 View Post
Hi Ken.
The 1.8 K series in the 75 and other Rovers only have two coil packs. It uses a "Wasted Spark" system, in other words one end of the coil goes to one plug and the other end to another, what happens is one plug fires just before TDC on the compression stroke and the other in the exhaust stroke on the opposite cylinder and vice versa same with the other coil.
The problem here is if you pull a plug lead off then you'll be disabling two cylinders and it then gets confusing.
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