Random Misfire, No Codes
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Dang, the new ones are pretty, the old ones are awful. Should I pull them and check for corrosion?
Screwdriver to the injector and one end to your ear and listen for clicking.
My old ones looked like shit but my guess is they weren't bad at all.
-Mac
@Jerry Bransford need your opinion on this one. I've taken apart a couple of Jeeps and my knowledge pails in comparison to yours... what's your read on this situation?
-Mac
-Mac
So check for the clicking. I think my buddy felt them with his fingers, but I can check again.
Jerry is waiting for me to do a compression test, which I can do but I wanted to try a few easy things.
Have you pulled a fuel sample? Put it in a clean jar let it sit for a bit.
Are you sure it’s a misfire and not an engine vibration? Broken flex plate, slipped balancer, high oil level. If it’s a misfire put a vacuum gauge on it to see what it’s doing. Compression and leakdown test also to verify engine condition.
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I haven't done any of these things, I don't know anything about them, actually, but you have me curious.
Two of my buddies are gear heads so I asked them and they said it was a miss. Personally I don't know what a miss sounds like, never had a vehicle do it before. I wish I could describe the sound better or capture it on a microphone. It's a almost a minute hesitation, pause, or low cough sound that makes the Jeep shake when it happens. It's only consistent in that it happens. It may be one every several seconds, then a few in quick succession, then once every few seconds, then stops for several seconds.
I looked up how to do the compression test, so I'll be doing that today or tomorrow (my lady's car is having brake problems so I'm working on both today).
How can I tell if it's any of these others?
Oh, I have a vacuum tester hand pump that I used to find a vacuum leak, would this work? Am I just hooking this up while the engine is running? There's that extra port on the intake that just has a cap over it.
Cool idea! I'm looking at the relay box at the moment, found that the previous owner spliced a new section in the wire feeding the fuse pump relay. Not sure if this is a factor or not, but once I button it back up I'll try the vacuum tester.
Nope, wasn't the spliced section. I wiggled the wire with the Jeep running and the miss was still present.
Could this be a problem with the distributor? My second set of hands won't be here until this weekend, so I'm going to do the compression/leak down tests then, so I'm curious what I can test in the meantime.