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Old Jul 8, 2008 | 06:46 PM
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Ok, just pulled the rocker arms off and pulled the pushrods out, everything looked good, no bent pushrods and no spilled bearings.

Did a compression test on all the cylinders and every single one is between 175-180...

Oh, after I put the rockers back on I started it up to let it warm up a little before the compression test and everything sounded good, then after I was done with the test I started it back up and I'm getting some loud ticking from the problematic side...
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Old Jul 9, 2008 | 09:19 AM
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Loud ticking could be a collapsed lifter, or a broken valve spring... which could also cause a poor running cylinder.
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Old Jul 10, 2008 | 01:03 PM
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I am completely lost, at least the ticking went away.

I have no idea what else to do, I have done everything, well I guess I could put new valvesprings on but I really don't think that's the problem. I checked the connections on the pcm today they looked fine, swapped some coil packs around again didn't help, I guess it's down to valvesprings....
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Old Jul 10, 2008 | 01:51 PM
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When you say you checked the wires, what did you do? Just look at them or resistance/continuity check? Use a meter to check the wire from the PCM to the injector.

Do you have spark at #5? If so, why are you swapping coils.
If you have spark, if the plug dry or wet?
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Old Jul 10, 2008 | 02:12 PM
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Surprisingly the plug looks decent, I've swapped the plug wires around, pretty much mixed matched the wires more than once and everytime it shows up on 5.
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Old Jul 11, 2008 | 04:57 PM
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You guys will love this one. After changing plugs in all the cylinders twice and three times for #5 (tr55's everytime) I decided to change the type of plug I was putting in, so I got a set of ACdelco Iridiums, swapped them in real quick and no more missing...go figure.

Is it strange that I swapped plugs that many times and it never got better or does my car just not like the tr55's?
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