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Re: 1998 Ford Explorer 4.0 miss fire
Posted to Technical Discussion Forum on 9/26/2002

Some of those vehicles have a plastic upper plenum and an o-ring for the gasket. The intake manifold can warp or the o-ring can fail causing a missfire on the cylinder that the o-ring has failed on. Hope this helps.

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