need some problem solving help. thanks!

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05-15-2005, 04:23 PM

eventnick

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need some problem solving help. thanks!

Ok my lil maxima is having some problems that I cant seem to solve. Its a 93 gxe. Let me start from the beginning. When I first bought the car about 8 months ago, there was a slight slight vibration at idle and not always. And as I've had the car the problem has progressed. For a while, one of the cylinders would turn off intermittently, and I thought there was a problem with my transmission but that was obviously wrong and the tranny is fine. The vibration at idle got worse and now its pretty bad, at around the 500-600 mark. SO intermittently soon became permanent and the number 6 cylinder stopped firing. Soon after that I lost cylinder number 3. Obviously I have a serious loss of power now. I replaced all the plugs, no change. Then the ignition wires, no change. Then the cap and rotor, no change. Other things ive done, cleaned the air filter, changed the oil a month or two ago, but again the problem has been developing over a few months. And then today, another problem happened, It felt like the car lost another cylinder and was running on 3, got real sluggish and slow to accel, but when i got home i checked all the cylinders but only 3 and 6 werent firing still, but I lost some power somehow. Help me please, my baby is dieing!!! lol. My roommate and my dad have thrown out the following possiblilities, injectors-possibly, but it seams unlikely that 2 would fail at the same time, im going to move the injectors around tommorow and see if the problem follows. Head gasket-no idea on this one, just something my roomie thinks might be wrong. The Coil, my dad suggested this one but i dont think that is it other wise the problem would be much more sporadic and not the specific 3and6 cylinders..... Thanks alot guys, I reallly appreciate the help
-Nick