Looking for some diagnosis (Help)

[mudmonkey]

The Disco was hesitating when trying to accelerate with a cold engine. I happened to have the hood up one night and noticed some arcing from the ignition wires.

I swapped the wires for Magnecor and changed the plugs at the same time, most wires were fine but one kept jumping off and I had major misfire and hardly any power. Upon inspection, I noticed the Magnecor didn't have the porcelain, how I missed this I'm not sure Anyway, I changed back to the original wires (waiting for new magnecor) and still had a major misfire and barely any power so I put the plugs back to the standard ones that were in it as well...in theory, I am now back to where I started except that I still have a major misfire and no power problem.

I am not able to get the codes read until Wednesday at the earliest.

Basically, I seem to have caused a major bloody problem and have gone from a slight hesitation that was avoidable with an engine warmup to an un-drivable truck- any advice would be greatly appreciated

[Alak]

Could be a problem with the coil pack itself. Perhaps its cracked, or not making sufficent contact. Or a connector could be not on all the way.


Sure all the wires are going to the proper home?

[mudmonkey]

I've checked and double checked...assuming that a 2000 Disco 2 has the cylinder order 2468 on the left and 1357 on the right looking in from the front.

[Rovin4life]

on the coil itself it should be.

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1 6 5 8
7 4 3 2