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1998 Corolla shakes badly in drive?

In drive it shakes and has horrible acceleration, doesn't do this in reverse or neutral. It's not motor mounts, it's not the injectors i checked... when you hit the gas it you can feel the constant misfire or hesistation very badly. Plugs are new .. this happened all of the sudden. Car was running great until I stopped friday, picked some stuff up started the car and the noise and rumbling started immediately.

I'm afraid my transmission is taking a dump

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  • edward
    Lv 5
    7 years ago

    misfire isn't constant.. just when I hit the gas at low speed.

  • Anonymous
    7 years ago

    If it has a "constant" misfire, then it would be doing it in reverse also. When the engine is in neutral, and not under a load, then you would not really notice a misfire. Did you check for spark at each plug? It could be a bad plug wire or the distributor cap / rotor not getting the fire to the plug. The alternative would be to check compression at each cylinder to see if there is a dead cylinder

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