89 Grand Am Dumping Fuel

If this is one of the quad engines it is a coil pack. Don't which part. I've just bought the assembly at a auto salvage place.

"" wrote: > I used to have an 89 Calais (quad 4) and I had this happen to > me > twice. It was a short in the coil housing both times ($80). > You want > to make sure that you change plugs before they get too far > eroded or > extra voltage will be required to fire them. This will > eventually > find a weak spot in the coil housing and short through it to > ground. > Since there are only two coils and each one goes to two spark > plugs > you loose two cylinders when this happens. You also dump raw > fuel > through the engine and it will burn in the catalytic converter > and > most probably overheat it. > > On Thu, 18 Aug 2005 16:23:21 -0400, "susanmo" > wrote: > > >I have an 89 Grand Am, It will start but seems to > >be running on 2 of the 4 cyclinders, idle is rough > >and if I run it for longer than 5 minutes the catalytic > converter glows > >orange. I have changed the points, and the boots. It also > smells like it > >is dumping way too much fuel. Any help will be appreciated. > Thanks.

These two hit the nail right on the head. :)