Need spark plug gap help

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I recently changed my spark plugs and used the Ford Performance cold plugs. Description on stage3motorsports states that the gap is set at .031. I recently had a cylinder 1 misfire causing the truck to shake and lose almost all power. Pulled off the road and checked everything I could without tools and started it back up and no CEL but it stored the misfire code. Would that be caused by the gap being off? I have seen on here a lot of guys are setting gaps to .028. Any help would be appreciated
 

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.031 is fine on my rig . Maybe you have something else going on like a bad tune, not enough intercooler , injector , wrong gas for your tune… Could be a coil… have to troubleshoot. How many miles on the and what mods?
 
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.031 is fine on my rig . Maybe you have something else going on like a bad tune, not enough intercooler , injector , wrong gas for your tune… Could be a coil… have to troubleshoot. How many miles on the and what mods?
I have 70k on the truck. I had a Cobb FMIC, AMS turbo inlets, 180 thermostat, replaced the plugs with the ford performance cold plugs, and am running a MPT 93 PRX map. Had those mods for about a month now with zero issues. Running only 93 octane, always have even before the tune.
 

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Easy troubleshooting would be to move that coil pack to a different cylinder and see if the misfires follows. It's possible you have a damaged plug, but if you've been running the plugs for a month that is more doubtful
 
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Easy troubleshooting would be to move that coil pack to a different cylinder and see if the misfires follows. It's possible you have a damaged plug, but if you've been running the plugs for a month that is more doubtful
Yeah I think I’ll give that a try. Maybe pull the plug from cylinder 1 while I’m taking that coil off and just have a look for any obvious damage. I’ll update once I give that a go.
 

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Definitely according to what tuner/map you are running you will see different recommendations on gap.... I know this is an old thread just curious as to what OP ever determined ??
 
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