Q: Miss fire cylinder 4
So I was leaking coolant at the back of the intake. I changed intake gasket started missing right after had problems with my fuel pump so I changed it and the filter. Still missed then proceeded to swap coil pack with another cylinder still miss firing checked plug seem fine to the eye gap was correct also.
My car has 216896 miles.
My car has an automatic transmission.
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