Cylinder miss....no spark....please help!!

[Steve 82SC]

MY car (82sc) was only running on 5 cylinders when I started it up to run some errands Saturday. I determined that it was the #2 cyl. (driver's side, middle). I changed the spark plug, to no avail. Then I put in another new plug....no difference. Since then, here's what I've done:
* put a brand new wire on, thinking it was a connector
* changed #2 & #3 cylinder wires and their corresponding
positions at the distributor...miss still occurs on #2.
* cleaned contact points in the distributor and on the rotor

If I pull a running cylinder off of the distributor, I'll see it arc, but no such thing with #2 cylinder wire if I disconnect it from the distributor.

All components are only about a year old and the car is always kept in a good state of tune.

Any ideas?

Steve

[gsxrken]

Sounds like something is up with your distributor cap based on the no-arcing description. Do you still have the old one to test with?

[rennch]

Steve...I'm having the same exact problem. Did you fix this?

[T77911S]

peolpe always complain when someone does not do a search. you certainly cant be called out on that one. nice that there is no follow up.

that post is nearly 10 years old.