Firing order for 4 cylinder engine car missing plugs and wires put on wrong

Try the standard for a 6 cylinder. 153624. That's what I always use.

It sounds like the spark plug wires are not plugged into the correct place on the distrubutor. take the distributor cap off and crank the engine over. Make a note of which direction the rotor spins. (Clockwise, or Counterclockwise) then find the firing order for that engine. Sometimes the firing order is on the intake manifold. (if you tell me which engine it has, the 4 cylinder 2.0, or the 6 cylinder 2.5; I could post you the firing order). Now on the distributor cap there is one wire post that has the #1 on it, that would be where you put the spark plug wire from cylinder 1. Following the rotation of the distributor rotor, you would put the spark plug wire for the next cylinder in the firing order after the #1 wire, and so on.

Firing order 1-3-7-2-6-5-4-8 --------- front ' 1 2 3 4 ' of ' 'distributorless ignition vehicle ' 5 6 7 8

Bring up TDC on no. 1 cylinder, the intake should have the fire on top of it

V6 engine 2.5 liters. Engine Info

Firing Order: 1-4-2-5-3-6

Cylinder Numbers

Firewall
1 2 3
4 5 6
Front of Car

Coil Pack Numbers

_______
4 6 5
3 2 1

What size engine? Check the gap on the plugs as well. "pregapped" is not always right

You didn't post your engine size so please pick the applicable diagram:



1996-98 4.3L Engines Firing Order: 1-6-5-4-3-2Distributor Rotation: Clockwise



1996-98 5.0L, 5.7L and 7.4L Engines Firing Order: 1-8-4-3-6-5-7-2Distributor Rotation: Clockwise




4.3L Engines Firing order: 1-6-5-4-3-2 Distributor rotation: Clockwise



4.8L, 5.3L and 6.0L Engines Firing order: 1-8-7-2-6-5-4-3 Distributorless ignition system (one coil on each cylinder)



5.0L, 5.7L and 7.4L Engines Firing order: 1-8-4-3-6-5-7-2 Distributor rotation: Clockwise

I was wrong about the distributor being round (I was thinking about my other car). I found variations about the firing order but after troubbleshooting, varified the plug wiring order from the front of the car is 1 - 4 - 5 - 2 - 3 - 6 not 1 - 4 - 5 - 2 - 6 - 3 found on several web sites. From the front of the car looking at the engine, the back three cylinders by the firewall going from left to right are 1, 3, 5. The front three are 2, 4 & 6.

You may have your plug wires in the wrong order.
The firing order is 1-3-4-2 om cpounter-clockwise rotation. Look at the digram below. Notice the shaded blue is cylinder 1. From there, make sure 3 is the next wire, then 4 and finally 2.

if the picture of the engine and firing order don't show go to this link.
http://autorepair.about.com/library/firing_orders/bl-fo-5748.htm