Here we go again P0300+ Friends HG? Fuel Pump/Injectors? Blown Engine

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    pryuschatpgt New Member

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    P0300 Mulit Misfire
    P0301 P0303 P0304 Cylinder 1,3,4 misfire

    Owned it for 3 years
    Bought and installed NGK Coils and Plugs from Rockauto less than a year ago
    car had been getting worse in terms of burning oil and gas mileage i assumed it was from the winter.

    I'm Driving & suddenly car starts to violently misfire. Check Engine flashing. I drive it home at about 50 mph max took 40 mins.

    I throw some new spark plugs in. And i see that cylinder 4 spark plug white porcelain has exploded I remove what I can with compressed air and vac, Im assuming its from driving it home. swap #2 plug with #4. Clear codes and it still misfiring exactly the same with the same codes.

    When i bought the car 3 years ago cylinder 1 misfired and i swapped an ebay injector in there and had two left over. Engine has been smooth . So i tested the ebay ones i had they were spraying better than 3 and 4 injector so i swapped them. Made sure there was no leaks in the injectors. Still exact same misfire codes even cleaned the plugs.

    I remove some oil because i did an oil change recently and i read maybe i put to much oil. Oil seems fine not milky. Get it to about half way mark on a cold engine. I clean out oil inside throttle body cause i see oil. Crank up still same misfire codes and the oil is back in the throttle body. I read this is normal.

    did a block test with the car on for 15 mins. Nothing color remains blue. Rented a coolant compression test kit from advance. if i leave it overnight compression drops from 17 to 7 psi. Im not sure if this confirms HG.

    I use a cheap boroscope on cylinder 4 and i see a little bit of juice come out as i rotate the crank clockwise. but i only see this happen once the first time. i even rotate the engine for a couple of minutes but i dont see a squirt of liquid again. Cylinder 4 seems to have some liquid in it in general but not much. see attached images.

    Im planning on renting a compression test tomorrow as well as purchasing a leak down test. If both those test dont give me anything, then im pulling the oil pan and confirming if a bearing is blown. And im running out of ideas. I plan on keeping this updated please let me know if you see anything im missing

    i feel like all i really need are new oem injectors maybe a fuel pump if its not the headgasket. I have ran out of gas a couple times in the past year and the guage only goes down to half and no lower even if i run out of gas.
     

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    These are 2 and 3 or 3 and 2 i really don't remember. Im not sure i took a pic of one. But 1 looks about the same as 2 and 3 just a little more dry. 2 and 3 also look a little wet.
     

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    Regarding the cooling system pressure test - that can also happen if the tester isn't perfectly mounted on the radiator, or the tester itself is defective. It might also happen if there was a very large temperature drop during the test, although I don't think quite that much.

    I couldn't figure out what I was looking at in those pictures. If you can get your hands on a bore scope with a sideways camera, use it to inspect the upper part of the cylinder while the cooling system is pressurized with the tester. If there is a blown head gasket with a path to the water jacket, under those conditions, you should see drops of coolant running down the side of the cylinder, or hanging from the top. Not sure though why you suspect a problem with the cooling system or head gasket if there is no oil in the coolant or coolant in the oil or white smoke coming out the back. If it was that pressure test, a drop that much should have had a corresponding stream of fluid coming out somewhere, and if it was into a cylinder, it would have been swimming in it. I couldn't make sense of those pictures, but none of those piston tops looked clean to me, and one side effect of a leaking head gasket is that it steam cleans the inside of the cylinder.
     
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    did the compression test on 1 and got around 130 and did 4 and got 10-20. I used the leak down tool to test compression on all 4 cylinders. I turned the engine clockwise on each cylinder until i felt pressure push back against me all of them were strong except 4. 4 had no strength built no pressure. I then poured two caps worth fromn a gallon bottle oil into the cylinder and tried rotating the engine and it was still not getting any push back or pressure building from 4. Im assuming its a stuck open valve.
     
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    I performed a compression test on cylinder 1 and got around 130 PSI. When testing cylinder 4, the readings were between 10-20 PSI. Using a leak down tool, I tested compression on all four cylinders by turning the engine clockwise until feeling resistance.

    Cylinders 1-3 showed strong pressure, but cylinder 4 had no strength and did not build any pressure. I then added two bottle caps of oil into cylinder 4 and attempted to rotate the engine again, but still experienced no push back or pressure buildup.

    Based on these symptoms, I suspect there might be a stuck open valve in cylinder 4 that is preventing proper compression. This diagnostic test was performed yesterday.