03 Escape misfire codes

LilJuicedCoupe

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Im working on an Escape that was just taken to a shop for this problem cost the woman $900 and the problem is still there.....They wont do anything for her....the codes are P0316,P0304 and P0305....It's a 3.0 V6 any idea which direction to go?...I've replaced Plugs and boots for her...
 
Do you have injector pulse on cylinders 4 and 5? P0304 is misfire cylinder 4 p0305 is misfire cylinder 5. Tray swapping coild #6 with 5 and see if the misfire moves to cylinder 6. If it does I suspect bad 2 bad coils. Coils normally only fail under load, and I believe the coils secondary windigs are supposed ot be between 6000 and 8000 ohms. Check em out.
 
Verify injector pulses like mentioned as well as fuel pressure, clean air filter, compression test those cylinders and compare them to good cylinders on the opposite bank. I always cover the basics first saves you lots of trouble down the road. If all that checks ok...

Mark the top of the coils with a marker indicating what cylinder they're on now. Then try swapping the coils from both cylinders that are missing to two known good cylinders, this will let you know if the coils are bad if the miss moves to those cylinders.

If that does not fix the problem, I used to see a lot of them things have the egr valve stick open and cause cylinder misfires on the the back bank as it draws the egr gasses first due to the valves placement on the intake. Sometimes they will throw a egr flow code for this but most I've came across do not. I've even seen the intake explode on those years, when the egr valve sticks open it pumps raw fuel back in the intake on cold morning start up.
 
I've seen those with plugged cats cause misfires like that, probably not in this case, as one 2 cylinders on bank 2 are misfiring, but keep it in mind

Sent from my EVO 4g
 
New coils are around 600 when I had my escape I bought new coils off eBay for 85 bucks for a complete set
 
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