not sure if this is the proper forum to post on, but here goes...

i popped up the hood of my ride this afternoon to find one of the spark plug wires disconnected, and melted onto the exhaust manifold; so all this time i was running around town on 3 cylinders!

then it all began to make sense: prior to this i noticed that the engine seems to sieze more often, and there was a very strong smell of gas from the exhaust. my conclusion was that since the wire was disconnected from one of the cylinder, no spark was being generated from the spark plug, hence no combustion(hence no power, resulting in an engine that siezes frequently and causes excessive vibration) on that cylinder, and the air-fuel mix being pumped onto the cylinder just gets flushed out through the exhaust without being burned(hence the strong gas smell)

tama ba?