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Ford Focus - Fault Code P0304

Posted: Sat May 23, 2015 5:47 pm
by Rick
The car (1.6 ZETEC SE, two camshafts) with check engine light came on. The fault - misfire on cylinder 4. The owner replaced spark plugs before. Right after the replacement the car was running good, but later starts hesitating on sudden acceleration. According to the piezo transducer’s waveform can be seen the difference in working exhaust valves. At idle the breakdown voltage in cylinder 4 is higher than in the others. During snap throttle it has strange firing line. I replaced spark plugs in cylinders 3 and 4, but no changes. High-voltage wires are good. I don’t have any high-voltage wires and coil to replace.
What can it be – valves or high-voltage part?

Re: Ford Focus - Fault Code P0304

Posted: Sat May 23, 2015 11:33 pm
by Kelvin
Are you having a problems when the starter does crank the engine?

Re: Ford Focus - Fault Code P0304

Posted: Sun May 24, 2015 2:36 pm
by Rick
I didn't record while cranking. The car starts and idles fine. Tomorrow will replace high voltage wires and a coil.
Attach throttling waveform.

Re: Ford Focus - Fault Code P0304

Posted: Mon May 25, 2015 11:28 pm
by knyshmotors
on your waveform clearly shows failures in the secondary circuits of ignition cylinders 1 and 4. The overvoltage combustion and reduce the burning time characteristic of the fault ignition wire or spark plug gap large. since the cylinder 4 is more pronounced the problem, I can assume the fault ignition wire ... although there may be other reasons, but should look at the 4-cylinder.

Re: Ford Focus - Fault Code P0304

Posted: Tue May 26, 2015 9:48 pm
by Rick
Thanks for the reply. I replaced the ignition coil with a new one. Everything is fine.
No ignition problems to date.