Recent content by Joshua Faas

You were compleetly right....threw some atf down the intake while cranking and i backfired twice then fired right up......who would have thought....should have started with that

Faulty o-ring threw off readings. 155 150 135 148 145 135 The 135's are a rex flag to me...whats the minimal range?

Never found the gage...not sure its worth buying at this point

1:96 psi 2:96 psi 3:95 psi 4:95 psi 5:89 psi 6:89 psi Triple checked to make sure. Also unpluged fule pump and tried starting with starting fluid. No change. What next? Hmmmm

Picking up a dial indicator and compression gage on the way home. Giong to check valve lift while i got the valve cover off as well...will post the results tonight

did the WOT step and nothing. took coil pack loose and put spark plug wires from the packs to the plugs and all spark....however near as I can tell ....the sparks seem to be inconsistent. 2 and 3 seem to get extra sparks and some seem to loose spark from time to time. no compression check...

I will try that step now since I totally missed it...im sorry. did not mean to annoy you. then the compression check if I can find the tool for it.

The coil pack is new as of 2 months ago. Thoe im not sure what else could have gone wrong when the old motor gave up....we didnt swap the harness but thats something to check ....do that while doing compression check and timing light today....just confuses me that only 1 or 2 cylinders seem to...

Changed iac for known good one and swaped all injectors for good measure. Still a no go....same thing. Do a compression tomorrow. Witch sensor would cause an early spark....crank or cam?

I was also worried about exhaust not opening so i pulled valve cover and cranked over by hand. All valves seem to open and close however 3 and 4 exhaust valves seem to move less than the rest. Will check the vacume leak option next just to be sure

well that's not whats under there. has 1 o2 sensor just before the flange and that's it.... just pulled motor back out and the part numbers are the same on the flexplates so that's not it....didn't think it was but now I know... killed a starter from it trying to kick backwards while turning...

I have re-indexed the sensor several times with the same result....I still cant help but wonder about the wiring harness missing plugs to plug in the 2 o2 sensors in the exhaust manifolds. the tj has 2 upstream and one downstream....however there is no catalectic converter between them....so...

The 2000 tj has coil packs so crossed plug wires can't happen. I however suspect things were swapped be for he got the jeep because it has 3 o2 senses and only 1 plug to plug them in. All plugs are new and gaped corectlly ... I have seen a few people claim the tj OPDA won't work in the wj...

helping a friend with what should have been a straight forward motor swap.....ya right. so here I what we got.... A 2000 jeep tj sport with an automatic trans ....motor threw a rod out the side. bought a 2004 grand Cherokee motor with low miles. striped and swaped the pullys and alternator...

It's alive!!! Turned out to just be a missmatched flywheel! Thank you for your help. And troubleshooting