Scotty, I have a 1995 Ford Taurus 3.0 V6 OHV that has a rough idle. I noticed while adjusting the ignition timing with an induction light on the cylinder 1 plug wire that the light would not light up randomly every second or two. I checked all 5 other plug wires and it's the same story but seems to get better the shorter the plug wire. I just bought and installed a new set of plugs and wires and the timing light still intermittently skips a beat on each plug wire. At this point, it has a new cap and rotor, plugs, and wires. Is this more of a weak spark issue coming from the distributor or maybe some sensor going out? Is there anything like the ICM that could be on its way out? Thank you very much for your time!!!
Sounds like your ignition coil is failing and shorting out internally.
I'm a little confused - since my car has a distributor instead of a coil pack (last model year with distributor), do you mean the small coil unit inside the distributor?
Thanks for taking the time to respond!
Your distributor cap has 7 wires on top. Follow the center one back to the ignition coil
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