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Old November 13th, 2013, 5:38 PM
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I have a misfire on #1 cylinder on my 99 Malibu 3.1 vin "m"

I checked spark with a spark tester and it appears I have spark. I'm not sure what's going on with this thing. I'm posting pictures of the spark plug which looks wet. Anybody good at spark plug diagnosis?
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Old November 13th, 2013, 8:00 PM
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you had spark at the plug cable...so swap plugs...does the misfire follow the plug?
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I believe it will follow it, that plug is fouled. I wonder if I have a leaking injector. It did have a hard start condition before all this when the engine was hot.
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then put a fuel pressure gauge on the system and watch for leakdown.
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Just to follow up what went down on my misfire.
I sent all my injectors to have them cleaned and rebuilt by mr. injector. His results showed injectors 1,2, and 3 leaked and 1 being the worst and he could not stop it from leaking. So I replaced number 1 injector and spark plug and the car runs great.
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