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Flashing Engine Light???


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My engine starting running like shit today with a flashing engine light. I am taking it to a shop asap. I checked the engine code it said cylinder 5 misfire, and another code engine to lean. I took the spark plug out and it looked good. I just came to realise today that I have never done the timing chain and I am at 149,000 kms. My last Ranger was a 96 2.3 and I never bothered to change it because it was a non contact, chain could break without harming the engine. Is this engine the same like That?
I am taking it to the shop tomorrow morning. I am stuck leaving my fingers crossed until then. I can only hope for good news
 


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What ducking engine?

Also the timing chain isn't going to cause a misfire on a single cylinder. Spark plug can be bad and not have a visually detectable defect, could be a bad plug wire, bad coil, timing chain on a 6 cyl is the last thing I would look at for a single cylinder miss.

150K Kms is about 75K miles, so tune up is due soon, might as well get it out of the way now
 
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Flashing CEL is the computer shutting down an injector. Usually a bad coil causing a miss fire/dead miss will cause the computer to do this. It does this so it doesn't dump raw fuel down the exhaust and cause other issues. I would bet the coil shit the bed.
 
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My understanding is that a flashing CEL means there is a potential for hurting the catalytic convertor. What I would do is the simplest and easiest it means new plugs and wires. Somebody did a nice write up on how to test the ignition modules you might want to find that first.
 
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