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Old 05-28-2011, 07:54 PM   #2 (permalink)
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Well if your idea was just to shut off the injector to that cylinder manually, I can see another issue. The air being drawn in to the non-firing cylinder would then be forced out into the exhaust, the O2 sensors would read 4 cylinders worth of air and only 3 cylinders worth of burnt fuel, and the computer would think the engine is running way too lean and richen up the 3 cylinders that were still firing. At least I think that's what would happen, though I may be totally wrong!
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