Great. Thanks for all the help. I will do it this weekend.

Any ideas about the steam like stuff coming out of the AC vents? It smells weird too.

And yea she has been losing a lot of coolant over the past few months. We were putting some in every few days.

1999 S 70 (Wife's)

Problems;

1. Defrost rarely works. She says she has to wipe windshield with rag.

2. Heat sometimes doesn't get hot.

3. Wet floor board on passenger side.

4. Oh and weird steam looking stuff sometimes comes out of AC vents. What's that all about?

I am wondering if part of it ...

Ok, I will try that.

Good advise.

Thanks,

Oh, no!

It sounding great starting it after installing the new coil pack and a short test drive but my wife says it is still running rough on her daily commute today.

What now?

You guys are soooooo awesome!

It was the coil pack...

With you alls help I got my wifes car fixed.

A big thank you to everyone and this site.

Thanks for the tip. I will do that.

Could you explain" exactly" where the problem cracking would be?

I noticed the very tip (the end that touches the spark plug) on a couple of them having small chips. Is that what you are talking about?

jamesspringer wrote:Seems to me that leaving the flame trap in place and occasionally replacing a cheap and easy to get to part beats the heck out of spending a lot more time and money tearing the engine apart to get to whatever else gets clogged up because the flame trap is missing....

Yea, what he said...

My wifes 1999 S70 is Sputtering. I took it to an Auto Parts place and they checked the codes. They said it was a misfire on cylinder 5 and to replace the spark plugs.

I did...

It is still Sputtering.

I checked the wires as best I know how and all looks fine. I even scraped the part where the ...