JeepinHank
11-08-2004, 11:17 AM
My shit has been acting funny for the past couple of days. Its kinda like when you're going down a smooth road and hit a bump, only there is no bump. Sunday, I had to make a run into town and pick up my utility trailer/yard equipment, and I discovered that my suspected bump was actually an engine mis-fire. It was very random, so I had a lot of probemes diagnosing it sooner. Anyway, I had pretty much everything I needed to do a tune up - Spark plugs and some throttle body cleaner. I checked out my cap and rotor, and that looked good to go.
So, I jumped in to start my tuneup at around 7:30 Sunday night.
Sprayed the throttle body with a can of cleaner with the engine running, let it get back up to a smooth idle afterwards and shut it off. Pulled the plugs and wires (broke a wire of course :roll: ) sprayed the cylinders with the other can, blah blah blah..... Reconnected evrything, blah blah blah.....
Now for the kicker - my shit hasn't cranked since. I don't get it, it was a simple tune up. I've done it plenty of times in the 170K+ miles I've owned this thing. Why now? I didn't do any thing out of the ordinary. Is is because I'm about to actually do some constructive mods, and I can't be allowed to do something like that cause my junk may actually perform better?
I gave up after 10:30 cause I had a pretty rough weekend and needed some sleep - so my Heep is now sitting in the driveway. I even had to stoop so low as to borrow the wife's car to get to work today. I've gone over the firing order 4 times now, plug gap is to spec (0.035"), wires are brand new, and cap and rotor LOOKED good. All connections are tight. Tonight I'll do some real diagnosis, like physically check for spark, inspect the rotor and cap a little more closely, and check out my sensors. I'll see what that turns up. Just had to vent a little bit. :evil:
ARGH
So, I jumped in to start my tuneup at around 7:30 Sunday night.
Sprayed the throttle body with a can of cleaner with the engine running, let it get back up to a smooth idle afterwards and shut it off. Pulled the plugs and wires (broke a wire of course :roll: ) sprayed the cylinders with the other can, blah blah blah..... Reconnected evrything, blah blah blah.....
Now for the kicker - my shit hasn't cranked since. I don't get it, it was a simple tune up. I've done it plenty of times in the 170K+ miles I've owned this thing. Why now? I didn't do any thing out of the ordinary. Is is because I'm about to actually do some constructive mods, and I can't be allowed to do something like that cause my junk may actually perform better?
I gave up after 10:30 cause I had a pretty rough weekend and needed some sleep - so my Heep is now sitting in the driveway. I even had to stoop so low as to borrow the wife's car to get to work today. I've gone over the firing order 4 times now, plug gap is to spec (0.035"), wires are brand new, and cap and rotor LOOKED good. All connections are tight. Tonight I'll do some real diagnosis, like physically check for spark, inspect the rotor and cap a little more closely, and check out my sensors. I'll see what that turns up. Just had to vent a little bit. :evil:
ARGH