1994 corolla issues

[trcooperone]

Sorry if this is not allowed but as you can see it is 12:40am and I am having some issues.

1994 Toyota corolla with 120.000 miles

As I was coming home tonight from work I hoped in my car and started it up and drove it towards the freeway. Nothing was wrong until I stopped at the light to get on the freeway the car started running rough at idle (really low idle). It did not dies but seemed that it might.

I turned on the freeway and it had low power and hard acceleration and then would surge like maybe it was not getting spark consistant and was only running on 3 of the 4 cylinders.

I made it home and did a little test to check spark and with the number 1 spark plug wire disconnected it had no affect on the running of the car but the other three it made it worse.

So I pulled the plug to check it and it seemed fine, but I put new plugs in anyway.

It seemed to solve the problem initially but when I took it for a test drive the problem returned.

Is it bad wires, distributor, fuel...?

Any help you could offer would be great, thanks!

[Redneck sami]

I would start off with checking the usual culprits like wires, cap, rotor, plugs... might be a good idea to do a compression test as well. if you got good compression then you know it's not mechanical and probably electrical.

[99xj]

Had a very similar problem on a Honda Civic. Turned out to be the distributor, replaced it and been good ever since.

[84socal]

id go with wires first      get  factory toyota wires   everything else is kinda like taking gamble      ask the guys at yotamasters theyll tell u the same thing   vatozone and pepboys is junk