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Does anyone have an intermittent miss in the number 2 and 3 cylinders? It will hardly idle unless I crank the Idle way high, yet it runs excellent at high RPM's. Anything will help.

sounds like a fuel-air mixture problem, but I'm no expert, I'm used to dealing with dual rochesters

it may be a mixture problem. ALso something to do is to pull the plugs out, if its been dumpign alot of fuel in those two holes you may have fouled plugs.

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1980 LUV 4x4, going under re-construction...

sounds like points to me, if the gap is not right it will cause it to miss real bad. most of the time its when the gap is too little. check the gap and reset them. when i've seen this happen, the engine misses on 2 cylinders.

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1980 chevy luv 4x4 1.8 liter
1979 luv long bed parts truck
1984 2wd isuzu pup parts truck

"A man who says it can't be done shouldn't interrupt a man doing it."

mine misses...but only when its cold. It takes forever to warm up and when its warmin up it misses bad unless u rev it up high. I live in hot az and even when its like 70 out it has to warm up.

when mine is cold it kinda acts like it has a miss too, but once i rev it up once or twice it goes away.
I was starting to think about it a bit and ill have to agree its probly points. Mine did this realy bad a few times and i had no ide what it was.

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1980 LUV 4x4, going under re-construction...

It could be either a spark problem or a fuel problem I think. Points are the most likely spark problem, though bad plug wires could do it as well. On the fuel side, it would most likely be idle mixture. A really bad vacuum leak could cause the sort of problems you are seeing, but I think it would be more of an overall problem rather than just a couple of cylinders. 2 and 3 are the shortest runs on the intake manifold though, so it seems like some problems show up there before anywhere else.

On the doomsday scenarios, between 2 and 3 is not an uncommon spot for head gasket problems. A little leak between cylinders could be going on. A compression check would eliminate that as a possible though. If you are losing coolant someplace, that would not be a good sign.

I replaced the points, condensor, cap, rotor, wires and plugs. It is still there. The only thing is that it is coming from the distributor.

well hey youve got my number so gimme a call and ill bring over some tools and i can help ya out whith diagnosing the problem

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1980 LUV 4x4, going under re-construction...

so i still have this intermittant miss/pop/backfire problem...happens randomly. I replaced the cap/rotor/points/plugs(denso iridiums nice)/wires and adjusted points and tappits within .001. .006 intake .010 exhause .018 or .18 whichever it is i know i used the right on on points. Still have a popping/missing going on...any ideas guys???

Cowboy

How did you determine the miss was both 2 and 3 cylinders? If it is definitely both then a compression check is in order.