What Is An "engine Misfire?"

[commandomark]

Hi

 

Out of interest what is an engine misfire? ..........engine is misfiring.....

 

I've read it in various posts on here but cannot find out what it means.

 

My engine seems to run fine apart from having no power which i put down to having an exhaust system like a sieve.... :lol:

 

Mark

[Mirez]

a misfire is when one of the cylinders fails to properly fire. In a normal sequence the engine would put fuel and air into each cylinder in a set pattern and then ignite it by creating a spark (with the sparkplugs) a misfire occurs when either the fuel, air or spark is missing or there is not enough of it.

[commandomark]

Thnaks for that

 

Mark