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Old 11-19-2009, 01:29 PM   #10 (permalink)
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Sounds exactly like what my van was doing when it had a bad spark plug wire. A bad spark plug or coil can do the same thing.

My Celebrity did it once too right after putting in new spark plugs. Turned out 2 of the new plugs had cracked insulators. NEW new plugs, and the problem was gone.
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