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Originally Posted by Slickismax
I'm pretty sure we have the exact same issue. I've wondered if it was damaging my engine mounts because it jerks back and forth so hard. I'll make a vid tonight when I get off work, then try the electrical tape to see if it fixes it.
btw, I'm 5-spd too.
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Well good at least I know I'm not out of place here. A vid would be great! I'd like to make one, but I'm not sure I can borrow a camera from anyone
. If you can get a vid up, it would be great to be able to say FOR SURE that we have the same problem.
I also thought of the mounts, in fact, I thought maybe the soft stock mounts were part of the problem. Well now that I have the poly mounts in, it's obviously not fixed, but the symptoms did change a bit. The engine seems like it doesn't move as far back and forth, but the stuttering is certainly a little quicker now.
I just went out and put different front coils in. I think they're from a 3.5
because they only use one bolt as opposed to two. I do have other 3.0 coils that I'll try if these don't make a difference.
In the rear, I used to have the stock 4th gen coils, but now I have the 00' coils bolted properly to the 00' valve cover. I've had the same problem with both setups. The problem did seem to get better when I put the 00' coils in and bolted them down though. ( because before that I had the 4g coils in 00' VC not bolted down).
I'll keep you updated about changing coils.
Oh, also, I didn't see a need to wrap the coils in tape, because the boots don't seem deteriorated AT ALL. The rubber is still nice and soft and thick. I don't see how the coils could be shorting out because of that. The only thing I can think of is the paint on the coils. You know how there is black paint on the part of the coil that gets bolted down? Well that is chipping off of my coils from removing them a bunch. Could this be significant?