You went DEEP I hope you don’t rub that thing off in a rock,or does your engine skid cover it?She's back!!! After a lot of part hunting and a shitload of cussing I got her back together and on the road! The deep aluminum pan I put on took a LOT of mods to make it work with my tummy tuck, but man was it worth it. She drives fantastic!! You can definitely feel the difference in the way the transmission behaves. Again I am beat after a day of wrestling with the beast. I will post some more updates after I get some rest. View attachment 323253View attachment 323256
Yes the engine skid covers itYou went DEEP I hope you don’t rub that thing off in a rock,or does your engine skid cover it?
Glad it’s fixedHoly crap guys!!
The Jeep was running absolutely flawless for the first 150 miles then all the sudden the Jeep just shuts off on my 4 mile trip to work and refused to start again. I know there are only a few things that can make the Jeep up and die so I went and got myself a new CPS. Unfortunately because my engine is lifted and at a stange angle because of the tummy tuck the CPS will not come out without hitting the flange between the firewall and trans tunnel. FML, after an hour of bending cussing and contorting I got the new sensor installed and the Jeep fired right up. Took it the rest of the way to work and everything was fine.
After work I got about a 1/4 mile down the road the Jeep stumbled then shut off again and wouldn't start. Waited about 20 minutes and she fired back up but would just stumble in gear and die.
So after a shitload of troubleshooting (i can provide details if wanted) I found out that not only did my CPS die but my distributor bushing was tossed, the shaft was wobbling side to side enough to put a huge grove in the post on the cap. It also caused a nasty misfire once warmed up and ONLY in forward drive gears. ( fucking strange I know) Replaced the distributor and she runs like a top again. What a nightmare after all the transmission work, talk about a buzz kill.
Even though it’s obvious, you sit there and wonder if it’s from the work you’ve done.Holy crap guys!!
The Jeep was running absolutely flawless for the first 150 miles then all the sudden the Jeep just shuts off on my 4 mile trip to work and refused to start again. I know there are only a few things that can make the Jeep up and die so I went and got myself a new CPS. Unfortunately because my engine is lifted and at a stange angle because of the tummy tuck the CPS will not come out without hitting the flange between the firewall and trans tunnel. FML, after an hour of bending cussing and contorting I got the new sensor installed and the Jeep fired right up. Took it the rest of the way to work and everything was fine.
After work I got about a 1/4 mile down the road the Jeep stumbled then shut off again and wouldn't start. Waited about 20 minutes and she fired back up but would just stumble in gear and die.
So after a shitload of troubleshooting (i can provide details if wanted) I found out that not only did my CPS die but my distributor bushing was tossed, the shaft was wobbling side to side enough to put a huge grove in the post on the cap. It also caused a nasty misfire once warmed up and ONLY in forward drive gears. ( fucking strange I know) Replaced the distributor and she runs like a top again. What a nightmare after all the transmission work, talk about a buzz kill.
Dude 100%!!! I knew it couldn't be related but I just couldn't get the thought of pulling the trans out of my head. So glad it was just really bad timing for the distributor to fail.Even though it’s obvious, you sit there and wonder if it’s from the work you’ve done.
After I did the transmission swap on mine, any little noise or stumble that came up worried me to high heaven and back. “Is this it? Is this the fruit of my labor and amateur work?!”
Glad you got it all figured out and running well. It's a great feeling.Dude 100%!!! I knew it couldn't be related but I just couldn't get the thought of pulling the trans out of my head. So glad it was just really bad timing for the distributor to fail.
This is me, every time I touch anything.Even though it’s obvious, you sit there and wonder if it’s from the work you’ve done.
After I did the transmission swap on mine, any little noise or stumble that came up worried me to high heaven and back. “Is this it? Is this the fruit of my labor and amateur work?!”
Hey dude great rebuild, you don't happen to know or have a photo of the bellhousing to transmission bolt pattern. I took my transmission off, rebuilt it... But the bolts got mixed up — so now I have no idea how to mate up the correct bolts to mount it back onto the engine facepalm.
It also caused a nasty misfire once warmed up and ONLY in forward drive gears. ( fucking strange I know)
Absolutely happened exactly as described. It took some earnest talking on my part to assure her that she'd like Blaine once she met him and that he was not going to add her to his pot of bubbling porridge.Not really that strange. In fact, one of Jerry's friends had the same issue that cost her a lot of money until she got over her fears that I was going to be mean and finally got in touch. Her rig would run perfectly up the hill to Big Bear, start crapping out and running bad on the way down. Other folks sent her down the shotgun parts approach by having a new PCM installed and a few grand in other bits. We had her swing by, toss it on the DRB, set the timing back into the middle of the range and it was 100% after that.
What no one else figured out was the timing was just at the very edge of the range. Wear and slop in everything, cam drive gear, cam thrust bearing, distributor drive gear, etc. would work fine when the motor was stressed one direction, but when going down the hill and coasting off the throttle in several places, it would shift the timing out of range and make it run like crap. All we did was move it back into the middle of the range the PCM can compensate for.
Absolutely happened exactly as described. It took some earnest talking on my part to assure her that she'd like Blaine once she met him and that he was not going to add her to his pot of bubbling porridge.