Running lean with random misfires may be indications of a vacuum leak. Get some carb cleaner and spray all vacuum connections. Changes in idle speed when spraying indicates a leak.

The other possibility to be considered is low fuel pressure. Check fuel pressure at the rail. A failing fuel pump can cause randon misfire.

misfire is cylinder 6, oh how I hate my fracking car......

facing the engine isn't 6 in the back and third from the left or second from the right? someone tell me so I can go change this plug....

thanks
rich

Cylinder 1 is front passenger side, 8 is back drivers side.

Try swapping injectors around?

you are so not my friend dan...... i'll let you all know if this solves the problem, of not I guess its coil pack time....

I'll put my money on a bad coil.

i would think that ign faults would give you a rich indication not lean

well since it didnt rain tonight, I crawled up on top of the engine and wrenched out plug number 6....

threads had a good amount of oil on them and the plug looked pretty burned out,,, only 16000 miles old too, however, its still missing, and that leads me to the coil.....
ordered one tonight,,,,,, should take 3 to 5 business days to arrive at my door, and ohh goody I get to have all that fun I had tonight in 95 degree heat all over again.... yayyyyy

cause for oil on plug?? not used to seeing that...

also anyone have a good diagram with arrows so I know which hoses are vacuum so I can test for vacuum leak? sorry to be ignorant, but vacuum hoses are not my cup of tea......

most of my friends would pay to have that plug changed tonight, me I just jump up and go to town...

wish i saw this thread earlier, i had similar issue with my GXP it was a bad coil
as Dan stated before, code P0300 is a pig. Doesnt give you much to play with unless you get which cylinder its misfiring.
I put my money on a bad coil, I guess we have to wait and see.

Any pictures of your engine mounts? Mine just hit 64k miles and shes going into service soon id like to see what they look like comparing to mine. Also how can i know if they are bad? its under warranty id like to know if they are bad so they can fix them.

Now i'll stop talking and wish you good luck.


Sammy K.

Sam,
the fron mount on the 2004 is a bitch... it'* basically a piece of rubber with a stud sticking out of the middle on both ends.... My engine was bouncing back and forth violently is how I knew the front one went bad.... I put it in drive and the black mark we drew on the engine cover moved 16 inches when I accelerated with the brakes engaged. Was a pretty clear sign the front one was bad... Sub frame has to come off to change it, so I paid to have it changed.
Rear mount is behind the fire wall and again the subfram has to go... I thought by left over engine bounce was still a mount, turned out it was still good....
My misfire is causing my idle bounce,,,,, I have a coil intransit, it will arrive on Friday......

anyone have any comment as to why I might have had a non normal amount of oil on the threads of the plug I removed?
oh and I stepped on and cracked my engine cover while I was working on it yesterday.... Short of a new one, anyone know where I can get a used one??/ No salvage yards in Ohio have seen one...