P Zero

Agreed, that little screw would have nothing to do with your misfire. I cant imagine that the boot wuold even rattle around much less move enough to cause a misfire.
-P.

djb1187

hmm what can cause it to not send a full spark, all i did was remove it and put it back?

djb1187

i also forgot to disconnect the battery when i pulled the coil out...i hope that didnt break it???

cobrapony27

Did you mess with the spark plug any? If so check it for cracks. Check the wiring on the coil, especially where the wires go into the connector, iv seen many of people pull right there and break wires, pull them out etc. etc. Stripping that hole in the intake would have nothing to with it missfiring, it would have a vaccum leak and idle rough then smooth out some when you brought the rpms up if it was. The coil snaps on to the spark plug and all that bolt does is just hold it down so it dont pop off.

djb1187

for some reason i thought it was my 2nd spark plug because when i give it just a little gas and it revs to maybe 1200 rpms or something, it sounds really rough and only down low the whole car starts jerking and stuff. after 2000 is revs smooth and drives real smooth. I also tried to tighten up my MAF since i thought it was kinda loosly attached to my CAI. I hope that might not of caused problems 2.

Rusmisel01GT

If you need to re-tap/thread then i wouldnt do it yourself, have someone else do it who has done it before... its not that easy... atleast i cant do it, lol.

bryanec

Did you hear/feel the coil snap into place? The bolt only holds them into place. You didn't try to tighten the coil onto the plug with the bolt instead of pushing very hard onto it?

djb1187

umm i think i did do that, i didnt push very hard on the coil i just tightened the screw really hard and thats how i stripped it. but the bad thing about it is that i cant get the coil back out because the screw is stripped into the manifold. I didnt hear anything snap, i just pushed it down on it. It must not be on very tight but i cant even get the coil off because of the stripped screw.

cobrapony27

Get a can of carb/tb cleaner and spray around that area while the motor is running, if the engine smooths outs a little then goes but to rough you have a crack intake just to make sure.

You can take a flat head gently pry up from under neath the mounting tab on the coil and try taking the bolt out that way.

djb1187

i tried that, it wouldnt work, i even tried pulled the coil at the same time as loosening the bolt and no luck, i dont think i cracked the intake, it idles perfect and its perfect all throughout the power band, its just slightly above idle it sounds rough and i thought that was because of my bad spark plug wire connection. Do you think it would have anything to do with my MAF that i also tinkered with.