I am having a problem with my coil packs ,well only 1 of them actually.I have replaced the front coil pack,I beleive its the number 3 and 6 coil pack) three times in the last 2 years.BTW I have a 97 firebird with a 3.8.I have also replaced the plugs and plug wires 2 times although this never helped me ,the problem has been the front coil pack each time.I had a friend run a scan on it and it come back with the following problems...P0137.02,P0138.02,P0300,P0336,P1406 and P1441.I found a couple of vacume leaks on it and fixed those but I am still trying to find out what keeps making the coil pack go bad.Anyone here have any ideas.TY for any help you can give me.
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Re: Problem with coil pack..
possibly rain water dripping down onto it from the cowl rubber leaking. check that when it rains next time and see if it is wet
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I used to have that problem with my front coil pack. Same year and model as your car and GM said it's a common problem with them. I replaced mine 3 times in less than 6 months though, so feel lucky yours was the course of 2 years.
After I replaced it with a coil pack from the dealership it has never caused any problems since.
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