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Old 03-21-2019, 11:57 PM
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From AllDATAdiy.com-



This is for 1998 but pretty sure applies

Do you want the troubleshooting flow chart?
 
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Why do You work on spark and cables while Your car is running rich:
Originally Posted by Dkarll88 View Post
Idle st bank 1 0%
Idle st bank 2 0%
2500 rpm st bank 1 -12.3%
2500rpm st bank 2 -11.8%
Why don't You post pairs LT/ST as asked by George?
 

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Lots of things can cause false misfire codes. Flex plates, balancers, belt driven accessories, torque converters, transmissions, bad engine bearings, etc. But fuel trims indicate the misfire here is probably real.
 
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Old 03-22-2019, 02:16 PM
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Sry, negative trim is rich not lean. At start, You said the plenum looked flooded, right?
Number 6 intake channel is completely full of fuel. It has also has a new mpfi system installed by the previous owner.
Anyway, You might not be getting right stoichiometric (air to fuel ratio), so it just doesn't ignite properly, and You get the misfire code.
...still these are ST trims (short term ones), that should be set in pair with LT to get a good understanding.
 
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Top one is idle

Fuel trims @ 2500rpms on bottom
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Old 03-23-2019, 10:27 AM
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Bank 2 is a mess at 2500. Your combined trims are -25 which means that the system is or thinks it needs to subtract fuel for a really rich condition. Most likely either you have some bad injectors on that bank or a bad o2 sensor on that bank.

Are the plugs fouled on that bank?

is that o2 sensor switching properly?

you can swap o2 sensors or replace the one on the wonky side. If you swap and the condition follows it’s the sensor. If it doesn’t follow it may be the injectors. If injectors are suspect you can do a balance test on the injuectors with a relatively inexpensive pulse tester and pressure gauge off amazon or just replace the injectors. The fact that it’s only one bank rules out MAF sensors etc.

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Originally Posted by GeorgeLG View Post
Bank 2 is a mess at 2500. Your combined trims are -25 which means that the system is or thinks it needs to subtract fuel for a really rich condition. Most likely either you have some bad injectors on that bank or a bad o2 sensor on that bank.

so what do you see from bank 2 that makes you believe that. I see it drops steady unlike bank 1 has a few spikes up as it decends but they are both together. Sorry dont know much about fuel trim just trying to understand that.
 
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Old 03-23-2019, 03:12 PM
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Originally Posted by Clab View Post
so what do you see from bank 2 that makes you believe that. I see it drops steady unlike bank 1 has a few spikes up as it decends but they are both together. Sorry dont know much about fuel trim just trying to understand that.
Spikes are not important. They appear because of a limited bandwidth of Your OBD dongle.
There are a great videos on YT with a fuel trims explanation, i.e. this one:
You may also skip that part, follow the advices posted by George and post the results.

 
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Old 03-23-2019, 03:13 PM
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I have never looked at fuel trims as a time graph. I look at fuel trims as tabular data, and there there may be some smoothing. You take the short term and long term fuel trims and add them together. a negative number means the system is subtracting fuel via shorter injector pulses to correct for a rich condition as determined by the O2 sensors. Totals over 10 need to be addressed. Totals over 25 set a code. I may be overreacting now that I see the time scale at the top measured in seconds. If you can get simple tabular data for all 4 numbers that would help. Also, long tern trims should not be changing that fast unless I just cant see the color codes and the fast moving lines are both short term numbers. Either way, I dont find these graphs very useful. attached is a screen shot of what you want

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Old 03-23-2019, 03:19 PM
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In the example above thje fuel trims are large and positive at idle so the system is adding fuel to correct for a lean condition but the problem goes away at higher rpms. A likely cause for this is a vacuum leak which is a lower percentage of total air flow at higher loads/rpms.

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