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Offline lee183

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sammy help?
« on: November 02, 2012, 05:03:16 PM »
87 suzuki samurai 1.3

My samurai only fires on cylinders 3 and 4. There is some oil deposit on the spark pulgs on 1 an 2.
The engine still runs but has no power.  The cat also after running for a while will start to glow red. 
The spark plugs do spark. Any ideas before i remove the cylinder head and do more troubleshooting?

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Offline Tan Zuk

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Re: sammy help?
« Reply #1 on: November 02, 2012, 05:33:51 PM »
Usually if the Cat is glowing as you have indicated. This causes the lack of power that you are experiencing. Doing a compression test to see the condition of the motor 1st before replacing the Cat would be a good idea for a base line.

The C/R should be at least 150PSI or better on all 4 cylinders.
Double check to be sure that all 4 plugs are getting spark.
Pull the plugs and ground them and crank the motor over and verify the spark.

If all that checks good then replace the Cat.

Just My 2 Cents

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Offline lee183

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Re: sammy help?
« Reply #2 on: November 02, 2012, 05:53:50 PM »
i have done a compression check all cylinders where exactly 150. i checked the spark plugs one hour ago and they all have spark.

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Offline Tan Zuk

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Re: sammy help?
« Reply #3 on: November 02, 2012, 06:05:31 PM »
Very Good. Go ahead a change out that clogged Cat and you should be good to go.