My engine fell apart

[haledj]

I was working on the car today andI decided to take the sparkplugs out and look at them, to see if all is well or if i need to change them.  I take them out and put them back, nothing wrong there.  after this, I start her up and she is running like shit.  Some backfireing and rough ide, all around no good.  I took the plugs back out and put them back to check to make sure that was fine.  It still ran like shit.  I was looking around the engine after this looking for something out of place and I found that the breather hose was not attached to anything, and the hose it was supposed to attach to was cracked to hell.  I have to wait and go to the dealer to get new hose as no store around here sells it.  I have a feeling the AFM might be bad, how do you test it?
--doug

[haledj]

PS tell me if that didnt make since, my old lady is going apeshit at me

[e9nine]

Reversed plug wires? Your car will do just that when you do so. The breather hose won't help it run well either and will trigger a check engine light. The coil packs are numbered. THe cylinders are in order of the first cylinder at the front end being #1 and the last one closest to the firewall is #4. Check you haven't crossed the wires or hopefully f'd up a boot by tugging on it the wrong way